Hurricane Electric and H5 Data Centers Partner to Bring High-Speed Connectivity to Albuquerque
October 29, 2018
New Point of Presence at 505 Marquette will provide customers in New
Mexico with high-speed and cost-effective connectivity options
DENVER–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#albuquerqueinternet—Hurricane
Electric, the world’s largest IPv6-native Internet backbone,
announced today that it has added a new point of presence (PoP) at H5
Data Centers, a leading wholesale data center owner and operator.
The new PoP is located in H5 Data Centers’ Albuquerque edge data center
at 505 Marquette Ave., NW.
Hurricane Electric’s latest PoP will provide enterprises and residential
IP providers in New Mexico with improved fault tolerance, load balancing
and congestion management in the delivery of next-generation IP
connectivity services.
“As Albuquerque is quickly becoming a tech hub, Hurricane Electric is
looking forward to providing customers of H5 Data Centers additional and
cost-effective connectivity options,” said Mike Leber, President of
Hurricane Electric. “This new PoP is Hurricane Electric’s first in New
Mexico and it reflects our commitment to providing connectivity to users
around the globe.”
Customers of H5 Data Centers and those within greater Albuquerque now
have a variety of new connectivity options and access to Hurricane
Electric’s extensive IPv4 and IPv6 network through 100GE (100 Gigabit
Ethernet), 10GE (10 Gigabit Ethernet) and GigE (1 Gigabit Ethernet)
ports. Additionally, customers at the facility are able to exchange IP
traffic with Hurricane Electric’s vast global network, which offers over
20,000 BGP sessions with over 7,200 different networks via more than 185
major exchange points and thousands of customers and private peering
ports.
“505 Marquette is Albuquerque’s most interconnected access point,” said
Josh Simms, founder and CEO of H5 Data Centers. “Hurricane Electric will
deliver an excellent opportunity for our customers to diversify their
network options and reduce latency.”
Albuquerque
Edge Data Center Highlights:
225,000 SF carrier hotel and office building with significant access to
a variety of fiber and network access providers
The top point of interconnection in New Mexico
505 Marquette serves a strategic role for communications in Albuquerque
and throughout the Southwest
About H5 Data Centers
H5 Data Centers is one of the leading privately-owned data center
operators in the United States with over 2 million square feet of data
center space under management. The company designs and engineers
flexible and scalable data center solutions to address the core
infrastructure and edge requirements of its customers. H5 Data Centers
operates data centers in Albuquerque, Ashburn, Atlanta, Charlotte,
Cincinnati, Cleveland, Denver, Phoenix, Quincy, San Jose, San Luis
Obispo, and Seattle. For more information, visit www.h5datacenters.com.
About Hurricane Electric
Hurricane Electric operates its own global IPv4 and IPv6 network and is
considered the largest IPv6 backbone in the world. Within its global
network, Hurricane Electric is connected to over 185 major exchange
points and exchanges traffic directly with more than 7,200 different
networks. Employing a resilient fiber-optic topology, Hurricane Electric
has no less than five redundant 100G paths crossing North America, four
separate 100G paths between the U.S. and Europe, and 100G rings in
Europe and Asia. Hurricane also has a ring around Africa and a PoP in
Australia. Hurricane Electric offers IPv4 and IPv6 transit solutions
over the same connection. Connection speeds available include 100GE (100
gigabits/second), 10GE, and gigabit ethernet.
Contacts
H5 Data Centers Media Contact
Jenna Baker, 303-714-7805
jenna.baker@h5datacenters.com
or
Hurricane
Electric Media Contact
Milldam Public Relations
Adam
Waitkunas, 978-828-8304
adam.waitkunas@milldampr.com