Hurricane Electric
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Hurricane Electric is a global Internet backbone
(ISP), with a specific focus on IPv6
. Hurricane Electric operates datacenters in the San Francisco Bay Area
, primarily within the city of Fremont
. They were founded in 1994 by Mike Leber, starting as a garage based business.
The backbone connects to peering
points globally.
They were ranked first among Internet hosting companies by reliability in 2007 by Netcraft
.
Hurricane Electric operates a free IPv6 tunnel broker
service.
Both static and BGP
tunnels can be configured. Hurricane Electric operates a free IPv6 certification service.
Internet backbone
The Internet backbone refers to the principal data routes between large, strategically interconnected networks and core routers in the Internet...
(ISP), with a specific focus on IPv6
IPv6
Internet Protocol version 6 is a version of the Internet Protocol . It is designed to succeed the Internet Protocol version 4...
. Hurricane Electric operates datacenters in the San Francisco Bay Area
San Francisco Bay Area
The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, is a populated region that surrounds the San Francisco and San Pablo estuaries in Northern California. The region encompasses metropolitan areas of San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose, along with smaller urban and rural areas...
, primarily within the city of Fremont
Fremont, California
Fremont is a city in Alameda County, California. It was incorporated on January 23, 1956, from the merger of five smaller communities: Centerville, Niles, Irvington, Mission San Jose, and Warm Springs...
. They were founded in 1994 by Mike Leber, starting as a garage based business.
IP Backbone
Hurricane Electric operates an IPv4/IPv6 backbone in Asia, North America and Europe.The backbone connects to peering
Peering
In computer networking, peering is a voluntary interconnection of administratively separate Internet networks for the purpose of exchanging traffic between the customers of each network. The pure definition of peering is settlement-free or "sender keeps all," meaning that neither party pays the...
points globally.
They were ranked first among Internet hosting companies by reliability in 2007 by Netcraft
Netcraft
Netcraft is an Internet services company based in Bath, England.Netcraft provides web server and web hosting market-share analysis, including web server and operating system detection...
.
IPv6
As of October, 2010, Hurricane Electric was the first Internet backbone worldwide to connect to 1000 IPv6 networks.Hurricane Electric operates a free IPv6 tunnel broker
Tunnel broker
In the context of computer networking, a tunnel broker is a service which provides a network tunnel. These tunnels can provide encapsulated connectivity over existing infrastructure to a new infrastructure....
service.
Both static and BGP
Border Gateway Protocol
The Border Gateway Protocol is the protocol backing the core routing decisions on the Internet. It maintains a table of IP networks or 'prefixes' which designate network reachability among autonomous systems . It is described as a path vector protocol...
tunnels can be configured. Hurricane Electric operates a free IPv6 certification service.