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Hurricane Electric Expands Global Network With New Point-of-Presence at DataCenter.BZ in Columbus, Ohio
COLUMBUS, OH, Oct 03, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) --
DataCenter.BZ, Ohio's leading carrier-neutral data center and its
only high-density provider, announced today that Hurricane Electric
has established a Point-of-Presence (PoP) at DataCenter.BZ's facility
located at 555 Scherers Court, Columbus, Ohio. The new PoP will
enable Hurricane Electric, which operates the world's largest
IPv6-native backbone, to expand its global network and efficiently
access a broad set of customers throughout Ohio and the Midwestern
U.S.
Hurricane Electric's new PoP will allow DataCenter.BZ's carriers to
exchange IP traffic and peer directly with Hurricane Electric's
global Internet backbone. The new PoP will expand access to
next-generation Internet and IPv6 systems and services through 10GE
(10 gigabit Ethernet), GigE (1 gigabit Ethernet) and 100BaseT network
connections. The new PoP will also enable improved fault tolerance,
load balancing and congestion management infrastructure capabilities.
"We are pleased that Hurricane Electric has chosen to leverage
DataCenter.BZ in the expansion of its global IPv6 backbone in Ohio
and we are excited about the benefits our customers will enjoy," said
Gordon Scherer, President of DataCenter.BZ. "We look forward to
offering our customers access to Hurricane Electric's vast global
network."
"This new PoP in Ohio offers compelling IP solutions to the 15th
largest and one of the fastest-growing markets in the U.S.," said
Mike Leber, President, Hurricane Electric. "This decision represents
both a strategic network expansion for Hurricane Electric and also
significant opportunity not only for Columbus but also for markets
throughout Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Kentucky and Indiana, where
customers previously had to route through Chicago or New York to
access such services. Additionally, this expansion will provide area
customers with greater bandwidth, reduced router hops and latency,
and improved quality of service."
"Now that Hurricane Electric is operating a PoP in our facility, both
our clients and other local and regional businesses have the
opportunity to connect directly to another top-ranked global Internet
backbone," added Paul Keinath, Vice President of DataCenter.BZ. "As
with all carriers maintaining PoPs at DataCenter.BZ, customers within
our facility can access Hurricane Electric's network with a simple
cross connect, and any businesses that neither colocate nor leverage
our virtual infrastructure solutions but wish to connect can still do
so using any of the dozens of transport providers that are available
at our facility."
About DataCenter.BZ
With headquarters in Columbus, Ohio,
DataCenter.BZ provides high-density colocation and virtual
infrastructure solutions from wholly-owned, carrier-neutral and
purpose-built facilities. DataCenter.BZ hosts one of Ohio's largest
collections of carrier, municipal and private fiber networks, serving
as a critical point of interconnection among the carriers, dark fiber
networks and last mile providers in the state. Such connectivity,
together with state-of-the-art data center facilities and ample power
sources -- including dual power grid feeds, 30 MW of available
utility power and multiple backup diesel generators -- enables
DataCenter.BZ to provide premium solutions to a variety of regional,
national and international customers, including major
telecommunications carriers, government entities, healthcare and
education systems, and Fortune 1000 enterprises. DataCenter.BZ has
been named the 2nd fastest growing company in Columbus and as part of
its high-availability offerings is both SOC1 (SSAE 16) and SOC2 Type
2 audited and compliant with HIPAA, PCI-DSS and Tier IV data center
standards. For additional information on DataCenter.BZ, please visit
http://www.datacenter.bz.
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 54 major exchange points and exchanges
traffic directly with more than 2,200 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 ft2 facility. Hurricane Electric offers IPv4
and IPv6 transit solutions over the same connection at speeds
exceeding 10 Gbps. For additional information on Hurricane Electric,
please visit http://www.he.net.
DataCenter.BZ
Michael Scherer
Director of Business Development
Sales: 614-515-5880
Email Contact
Hurricane Electric
Adam Waitkunas
Milldam Public Affairs
Office: 978-369-0406
Mobile: 978-828-8304
Email Contact
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