Hurricane Electric and NEXTDC Expand Partnership to Increase IP Transit Options in Melbourne
December 05, 2021 at 04:30 pm EST
Hurricane Electric and NEXTDC announced that Hurricane Electric has deployed a new Point of Presence (PoP) in NEXTDCs M1 Melbourne Data Centre, located in Port Melbourne. NEXTDCs M1 Melbourne is Victorias most highly interconnected data centre, with organizations being afforded the advantage of seamless, secure and native access to the worlds largest cloud platforms including AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft, IBM Cloud, Oracle Cloud and Alibaba Cloud, as well as the nation's major carrier networks and digital service providers. The expansion of Hurricane Electrics presence into M1 delivers NEXTDCs Melbourne-based customers a variety of new connectivity options and access to Hurricane Electrics 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 Electrics vast global network, which offers over 20,000 BGP sessions with over 9,000 different networks via more than 250 major exchange points and thousands of customer and private peering ports.