Backbone Directory: Hurricane Electric

Hurricane Electric's international network is the tenth largest in the world.

by Jeff Goldman [January 2, 2008]

Fremont, Calif.-based Hurricane Electric Internet Services was started back in 1994 by founder and president Mike Leber to offer colocation, webhosting, dedicated servers, and internet connectivity.	Current Network Maps

The company now operates its own international network as well as several data centers.

According to Benny Ng, Hurricane Electric's director of infrastructure, the company's network is now the tenth largest network worldwide, as well as the third largest IPv6 network by adjacencies, and the largest IPv6 network by number of customer prefixes announced.

According to the company, key strengths of the network include the following:

• Because Hurricane supports IPv6 and IPv4 over the same connection at no additional charge, once you get an IP Transit connection from Hurricane Electric you will be already set to add IPv6 support for your customers.
• All core nodes have multiple 10 Gbps (OC-192 / STM-64) connections—each of the company's core routers has a combination of backbone circuits, exchange ports, and private peering connections.
• Hurricane Electric has over 2,000 BGP sessions with over 700 different networks via 20 major exchange points and thousands of customer and private peering ports.
• The network has at least four redundant 10 Gbps paths crossing the US, two separate paths between the US and Europe, and a 10 Gbps ring in Europe.
• Hurricane Electric can deliver 10GE (10 Gigabit Ethernet) and gige (Gigabit Ethernet) ports at all core router locations. For speeds in excess of 10 Gbps, Hurricane Electric can bond multiple 10GE ports for customers.
• All backbone circuits are run over DWDM wavelengths directly on fiber, not on another carrier's MPLS.Because Hurricane Electric's network is dual stack, Hurricane Electric can deliver wirespeed 10GE IPv6 transit on the same port as a customer's IPv4 transit.
• Burstable pricing as well as flat rate pricing is available.
• IP transit service is available in colocation facilities such as Equinix, Switch and Data, Telehouse, Interxion, etc. and cities such as New York, Los Angeles, Fremont, Palo Alto, San Jose, Dallas, Chicago, Ashburn, London, Amsterdam, Paris, and Frankfurt.

Backbone statistics as of December 19, 2007:

peak network load: 220 Gbps
exchange ports: 20
private peering ports: hundreds
customer ethernet ports: thousands
dual stack native IPv6 at all locations and all exchanges
backbone composed of redundant 10 gig wavelengths

IPv4 statistics as of December 19, 2007:

IPv4 BGP sessions configured: approximately 2000
IPv4 BGP adjacencies: 762
IPv4 BGP customer prefixes: 1921
IPv4 BGP table size: 236515

IPv6 statistics as of December 19, 2007:

IPv6 BGP sessions configured: approximately 600
IPv6 BGP adjacencies: 151
IPv6 BGP customer prefixes: 217
IPv6 BGP table size: 947

IP Transit Core Nodes:

US Hurricane Fremont 1
760 Mission Court
Fremont, CA 94539

US Hurricane Fremont 2
48233 Warm Springs Blvd
Fremont, CA 94539

US Hurricane San Jose
55 South Market
San Jose, CA 95113 Market Post Tower

US PAIX Palo Alto
529 Bryan
Palo Alto CA 94301

US PAIX New York
111 8th Ave Suite 734
New York NY 10011

US Switch and Data Seattle
2001 6th Ave Suite 1200
Seattle WA 98121 The Westin Building

US One Wilshire
624 South Grand Avenue, Suite 110
Los Angeles, CA 90017

US Equinix San Jose
11 Great Oaks
San Jose CA 95119

US Equinix Los Angeles
600 W 7th Ave
Los Angeles CA 90017

US Equinix Chicago
350 East Cermak
Chicago IL 60616

US Equinix Dallas
1950 Stemmons Freeway
Dallas TX 75207 Dallas Infomart

US Equinix Ashburn
21715 Filigree Court
Ashburn VA 20174

US Telehouse New York
25 Broadway
New York NY 10004

US Nap of the Americas
50 NE 9th
Miami, FL 33132

England Telehouse East
14 Coriander Ave
London E14 2AA

Netherlands NIKHEF
Kruislaan 409
1098 SJ Amsterdam

Germany Interxion Frankfurt 1
Hanauer Landstr. 302
Frankfurt

France Interxion Paris 2
20-22 Rue des Gardinoux, Batiment E501
93534 Aubervilliers Cedex

Corporate Contact Info:

	Executive:	Mike Leber, President
	Headquarters:	760 Mission Court, Fremont, California 94539
	General information:	(510) 580-4100 or info@he.net
	Sales:	(510) 580-4190 or sales@he.net
	Support:	(510) 580-4100 or support@he.net
	Sales:	(510) 580-4180 or billing@he.net
	Fax:	(510) 580-4151
	Products:	http://he.net/about_prod.html
	Press releases:	http://he.net/news.html
	Network Info:	http://he.net/about_network.html
	FAQ:	http://www.he.net/faq/

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