REDWOOD CITY, Calif. and
FREMONT, Calif., Oct. 20, 2014 /PRNewswire/
-- Equinix, Inc. (NASDAQ: EQIX), the global
interconnection and data center company, and Hurricane Electric, a
leading global Internet backbone, today announced that Hurricane
Electric is extending its global IPv4 and IPv6 network to Equinix
International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centers in
Asia and Europe. This expands Hurricane Electric's
global footprint to a total of 17 IBX deployments in anticipation
of rapid global Internet traffic growth and the widespread
migration to IPv6 as the Internet of Things becomes fully
realized.
Highlights / Key Facts
- While IPv6 traffic is currently just over four percent of
global IP traffic, it has grown exponentially over the last few
years.[1] This trajectory will only accelerate as IPv4 addresses
dwindle, leaving IPv6 as the only option[2] for addressing the 40
billion Internet-connected devices projected to go online by
2020[3].
- Global adoption of IPv6 varies worldwide with certain countries
far ahead of others. Hurricane Electric stands to benefit greatly
from its multiple global colocations through Equinix to support
this migration. In particular, Germany has doubled its IPv6 penetration over
the last six months[4], making Hurricane Electric's latest Equinix
deployments in Munich (MU1) and
Frankfurt (FR5) timely.
- In addition to Frankfurt and
Munich, Hurricane Electric most
recently deployed in Hong Kong
(HK1), building onto its existing points of presence (PoP) in
Chicago (CH1), Dallas (DA1), Los
Angeles (LA1), New York
(NY9), Paris (PA2), Seattle (SE2), Silicon Valley (SV1 and SV8),
Singapore (SG1), Tokyo (TY2), Toronto (TR1), Washington, D.C. (DC2) and Zurich (ZH1).
- Hurricane Electric and Equinix are leaders in Internet
infrastructure. Hurricane Electric's first IBX deployment was at
SV1 in 2002, before the advent of smartphones and social media.
Then, Internet traffic was 4,860 petabytes annually. Today, the
Internet generates that traffic in roughly three days.[5] With the
emergence of the Internet of Things, infrastructure will need to
scale to keep pace, considering that 57 percent of IP traffic is
projected to originate from devices by 2018.[6]
- Since 2002, Equinix and Hurricane Electric have collaborated on
growing the Internet: Equinix by promoting a higher density of
networks and companies in its chosen data center locations, and
Hurricane Electric by providing those customers with lower latency
and higher quality peering options in market. Each of Hurricane
Electric's IBX deployments was determined by Equinix's ability to
bring a high density of networks and Internet companies to a
particular metro or region, providing a rich pool of potential
customers for Hurricane Electric to serve with local market
connectivity, reducing latency and improving cost per megabit.
- To reduce latency and optimize performance for a variety of
Equinix customers, Hurricane Electric cross connects with more than
1,200 customers. As a result of Hurricane Electric's extensive
deployments across Equinix's global footprint, it is a prime user
of the Equinix Internet Exchange, home to more than 1,000 networks,
content and cloud providers peering via an Ethernet switching
fabric to gain network efficiencies.
Quotes
- Mike Leber, president,
Hurricane Electric:
"Hurricane Electric has seen a number
of massive changes to Internet infrastructure over the years, and
has negotiated this consistent need for rapid scalability through
our data center strategy. Today, we are finally on the true cusp of
a widespread migration to IPv6, which we have prepared for with our
latest IBX deployments. We are live in 22 countries now, many
through Equinix, and look forward to realizing our goal of being
present in 100 countries by continuing to proliferate our offerings
through strategic colocations."
- Jim Poole, vice president,
services providers, Equinix:
"Throughout our relationship
with Hurricane Electric, we have seen waves of innovation begin in
our data centers and become widely accepted. Over a decade ago, we
introduced the Equinix Internet Exchange for peering, and together
with Internet backbone providers like Hurricane Electric, we
educated the market on its vital importance in the operation of the
Internet. Today with the Equinix Cloud Exchange, we are witnessing
a similar path of acceptance and support for our newest platform
for performance optimization. We look forward to continuing to work
with Hurricane Electric in helping them discover more customers as
ours benefit from its breadth of connectivity options."
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 80 major exchange points and exchanges traffic
directly with more than 3,500 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.
In addition to its vast global network, Hurricane Electric owns
and operates two data centers in Fremont,
California, including Fremont 2, its newest 208,000 square foot
facility. 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.
About Equinix
Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), connects
more than 4,500 companies directly to their customers and partners
inside the world's most networked data centers. Today, businesses
leverage the Equinix interconnection platform in 32 strategic
markets across the Americas, EMEA and Asia-Pacific. www.equinix.com.
Forward Looking Statements
This press release
contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and
uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from
expectations discussed in such forward-looking statements. Factors
that might cause such differences include, but are not limited to,
the challenges of acquiring, operating and constructing IBX centers
and developing, deploying and delivering Equinix services;
unanticipated costs or difficulties relating to the integration of
companies we have acquired or will acquire into Equinix; a failure
to receive significant revenue from customers in recently built out
or acquired data centers; failure to complete any financing
arrangements contemplated from time to time; competition from
existing and new competitors; the ability to generate sufficient
cash flow or otherwise obtain funds to repay new or outstanding
indebtedness; the loss or decline in business from our key
customers; and other risks described from time to time in Equinix's
filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In particular,
see Equinix's recent quarterly and annual reports filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, copies of which are available
upon request from Equinix. Equinix does not assume any obligation
to update the forward-looking information contained in this press
release.
Equinix and IBX are registered trademarks of Equinix, Inc.
International Business Exchange is a trademark of Equinix, Inc.
[1] https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html
[2]
http://www.zdnet.com/finally-ipv6s-killer-app-the-internet-of-things-7000027644/
[3]
http://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2013/01/07/how-many-things-are-currently-connected-to-the-internet-of-things-iot/
[4]
http://www.networkcomputing.com/networking/ipv6-sweet-spots-of-adoption/a/d-id/1234689?
[5]
http://www.cisco.com/web/solutions/sp/vni/vni_forecast_highlights/index.html
[6]
http://www.techradar.com/us/news/internet/broadband/the-internet-of-things-will-cause-ip-traffic-to-skyrocket-300-by-2018-1252812
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