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What is Hurricane Electric? Let’s Find Out Whilst Learning About Some Computer/Cyber Network Fundamentals!!!
Hurricane Electric (corporate website here) is a global Internet Service Provider (ISP), offering IP transit, colocation, dedicated servers, among other services, based in Fremont, CA, USA and founded in 1994. Referring to themselves an the “Internet Backbone and Colocation Provider”, Hurricane Electric operates its own global IPv4 and IPv6 network and is considered the largest IPv6 backbone in the world, as measured by the total number of customer networks connected and by the total number of customer prefixes announced.[2] Hurricane Electric IP Transit Network Hurricane Electric has connections ranging from multiple 10GigE (10,000 Mbps) to multiple 100GigE (100 Gbps) that form these rings that connect H.E. core routers. [NOTE: Gigabit…