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Hurricane Electric Remains Ahead of the IPv6 Curve with Brocade

Hurricane Electric

World's largest IPv6 Internet backbone future-readies its business to support massive bandwidth demands and device growth by implementing Brocade IPv6 switches and routers.

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“IPv6 should be the single most important thing on network operators' minds today. If they are relying on the global Internet, then they need to understand why IPv6 is critical. With an infrastructure of our magnitude, we absolutely required a simply, yet powerful and scalable routing infrastructure to support massive routing table space, IPv6, 10 GbE and a base to support for 100GbE in the future. We rely on Brocade to provide us the right balance of performance, future IPv6 routing table scalability and total cost of ownership to ensure a solid network investment.”

Martin Levy
Director of IPv6 Strategy, Hurricane Electric

In response to IPv4 address exhaustion, Hurricane Electric readies global network for transition to IPv6. By leveraging its Brocade infrastructure, Hurricane Electric now operates the largest IPv6 Internet backbone in the world, measured by the number of networks connected. As of January 2011, Hurricane Electric became the first Internet backbone worldwide to connect to 1200 IPv6 networks.

Strong customer demand has strained its global network infrastructure, so Hurricane Electric deployed the Brocade NetIron XMR Internet core router and Brocade MLXe core routers to future-proof its global network and multiple data centers, including its 200,000 square foot colocation facility in Fremont, Calif.

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