OSAKA, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hurricane Electric, the world’s largest IPv6-native Internet backbone, today announced that it has added a second Point of Presence (PoP) in Japan at Equinix OS1, located at 1-26-1 Shinmachi Nishi-ku (Nishi Shinsaibashi Building), Osaka City, Osaka 550-0013, Japan.
Operating within the major business market of Osaka, Japan, Equinix OS1 is the first carrier neutral global data center in the city. Boasting 16,000 square feet of colocation space, the facility features best-of-breed seismic protection features as well as premium data center services and on-site support. With a direct connection to the Dojima area (Osaka’s communications network core), Equinix OS1 is a premiere location for area businesses to house their critical IT infrastructure, ensuring access to robust connectivity options.
With Hurricane Electric’s new PoP, customers of Equinix OS1 will now have the option for increased network capacity through 100GE (100 Gigabit Ethernet), 10GE (10 gigabit Ethernet), GigE (1 gigabit Ethernet) and 100BaseT network connections. Additionally, these customers now also have the chance to exchange IP traffic, or “peer,” with Hurricane Electric’s global network.
“Hurricane Electric is delighted to continue its decade long partnership with Equinix,” said Mike Leber, President of Hurricane Electric. “Hurricane Electric is currently seeing a lot of growth and demand in the APAC market and this latest expansion with Equinix fits nicely into our overall global expansion plans.”
In February, Hurricane Electric was named to CRN's 2015 Data Center 100 as one of the top twenty Infrastructure Providers.
About Hurricane Electric
Fremont, California-based Hurricane Electric operates its own global IPv4 and IPv6 network and is considered the largest IPv6 backbone in the world as measured by number of networks connected. Within its global network, Hurricane Electric is connected to 90 major exchange points and exchanges traffic directly with more than 3,600 different networks. Employing a resilient fiber-optic topology, Hurricane Electric has no less than four redundant paths crossing North America, two separate paths between the U.S. and Europe, and rings in Europe and Asia. Hurricane Electric offers IPv4 and IPv6 transit solutions over the same connection at speeds including 10 Gbps and 100 Gbps Ethernet.
For more information on Hurricane Electric, please visit http://www.he.net