Hurricane Electric is a global Internet service provider offering IPv4 and IPv6 services, as well as data center in San Jose, California and in Fremont, California, where the company is based.
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IPv6
Hurricane Electric operates the largest Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) and Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) transit networks globally, as measured by the count of interconnections to other networks (peering). The majority of these adjacencies are native IPv6 BGP sessions. This may be determined with Hurricane Electric's BGP looking glass at http://lg.he.net.
Hurricane Electric offers an IPv6 tunnel broker service, providing free connectivity to the IPv6 Internet via 6-in-4 IPv6 transition mechanisms. The company also provides an IPv6 certification program to further education and compliance in IPv6 technology. According to Hurricane Electric's statistics, as of May 7, 2018, the company provided 97,067 tunnels spanning 197 countries via the IPv6 tunnel broker and 15,382 individuals in 155 countries have reached the highest level of the IPv6 certification.
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Peering
Within its global network, Hurricane Electric is connected to more than 185 major exchange points and exchanges IP traffic directly with more than 7,960 different networks.
According to European Internet Exchange Association (Euro-IX), Hurricane Electric ranks first in the world for the number of connections to Internet exchange points, with presence at 94 of Euro-IX member IXPs.
References
External links
- Official website
- IPv6 Tunnel broker service, operated by Hurricane Electric
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