Hurricane Electric, the world´s largest IPv6-native Internet backbone and NEXTDC, Australia´s independent data center operator with a nationwide network of Tier III and Tier IV facilities, have announced that Hurricane Electric has deployed a new Point of Presence (PoP) in NEXTDC´s S1 Sydney Data Center, the company said.
The new PoP is located at 4 Eden Park Drive, Macquarie Park, approximately 15 km from Sydney´s central business district.
NEXTDC S1 Sydney offers 5,800 m2 of technical space, with capacity for 2,800 racks, delivering seamless and secure access to NEXTDC´s entire national ecosystem of 550+ partners comprising the largest public and private cloud platforms, ISP and MSP providers and the nations carrier networks. NEXTDC´s Uptime Institute certified facilities deliver organizations a 100% uptime guarantee of the critical infrastructure that drives their business forward, and are the only data center provider in the market to deliver customers this level of business assurance.
This PoP is Hurricane Electric´s third in Sydney and fourth in Australia and will provide enterprises in Sydney and New South Wales with improved fault tolerance, load balancing and congestion management in the delivery of next generation IP connectivity services.
Hurricane Electric operates its own global IPv4 and IPv6 network and is considered the largest IPv6 backbone in the world. Within its global network, Hurricane Electric is connected to over 200 major exchange points and exchanges traffic directly with more than 7,500 different networks. Employing a resilient fiber-optic topology, Hurricane Electric has no less than five redundant 100G paths crossing North America, four separate 100G paths between the US and Europe, and 100G rings in Europe and Asia.
NEXTDC is an ASX-200 listed technology company and Asia´s most innovative Data Centre-as-a-Service provider. We are building the infrastructure platform for the digital economy, delivering the critical power, security and connectivity for global cloud computing providers, enterprise and government.
