Hurricane Electric Network Expansion & IPv6 Deployment Growth
* Hurricane Electric has expanded to Tokyo, Stockholm, and Zurich
Hurricane Electric now connects over 500 IPv6 networks and announces over
1000 IPv6 customer prefixes.
Hurricane Electric has over 4500 BGP sessions with over 1100 IPv4 and
IPv6 networks at 29 different exchange points in North America, Europe,
and Asia.
Updated network map:
http://he.net/Hurricane_Electric_Geographic_Network_Map.jpg
* New tunnel servers live in Tokyo, Stockholm, and Zurich
You are welcome to log in and reconfigure your tunnel if you like.
Chosing a closer tunnel server will improve your performance. You will
receive a different /64 and /48 if you chose to do this.
* IPv6 Deployment Growth
The global IPv6 routing table has passed 2000 IPv6 prefixes.
There are now over 1500 IPv6 glue records in the TLD zone files. The
addition of IPv6 glue records at the TLD level is a good gauge of
hosting infrastructure IPv6 growth, since it indicates operational
commitment on the part of individual nameserver operators.
Source: http://bgp.he.net/ipv6-progress-report.cgi
* New Exchange Point Connections
We have added exchange point connections to Equinix Tokyo, NETNOD,
SOLIX, and Equinix Zurich.
Where ever possible, we prefer native IPv6 BGP sessions with your
network directly on our core routers at any facilities we have in common
or via any exchange points we might have in common.
LINX IPv6 Workshop
LINX is holding a IPv6 technical workshop for LINX members in London on Friday 13th March 2009.
This event is aimed at an audience of network architecture and network engineering staff and will focus on practical IPv6 deployment, primarily though the sharing of experience and knowledge gained by those who have already deployed IPv6 or are in the process of doing so. LINX has so far received expressions of interest from several international telecom companies, mobile operators and content providers along with a large number of UK ISPs.
If your a LINX member its definately something that should be attended.
