Hurricane Electric to Participate at the Digital Government Institute's IPv6 Conference.Director of IPv6 Strategy Martin Levy to sit on panel addressing enterprise implementation FREMONT, Calif. -- Hurricane Electric, the world's leading IPv6-native Internet backbone (communications, networking) Internet backbone - High-speed networks that carry Internet traffic. These communications networks are provided by companies such as AT&T, GTE, IBM, MCI, Netcom, Sprint, UUNET and consist of high-speed links in the T1, T3, OC1 and OC3 ranges. and colocation provider, today announced that its Director of IPv6 Strategy, Martin Levy, will be a speaker at the Digital Government Institute's Next Generation Internet See Internet2. : How IPv6 Enables Agency Operations conference on September 17th in Washington, DC. Martin Levy will be featured on an afternoon panel entitled en·ti·tle tr.v. en·ti·tled, en·ti·tling, en·ti·tles 1. To give a name or title to. 2. To furnish with a right or claim to something: "IPv6 Migration Plans, Pilots and Enterprise Implementation." Martin will join other distinguished IPv6 experts and the mostly government audience to share information on how agencies should plan and implement IPv6 migration. "I look forward sharing my knowledge of IPv6 rollouts and their effect on government agencies, content providers and enterprises large and small," said Martin Levy, Hurricane's Director of IPv6 Strategy. "Complete IPv6 compliance yields a number of advantages, including increased address space, improved network-layer security, and simplified network configuration. This conference is another way for us to educate and bring a sense of urgency to the issue." Hurricane Electric first deployed IPv6 on its global backbone in 2001, and the company now interconnects over 500 associated IPv6 backbones - nearly twice as many as its nearest rivals. Hurricane is one of the few global Internet backbones A group of communications networks managed by several commercial companies that provide the major high-speed links across the country. ISPs are either connected directly to these backbones or to a larger regional ISP that is connected to one. that is IPv6 native and does not rely on internal tunnels for its IPv6 connectivity. IPv6 at Hurricane Electric is a core service and every customer is provided IPv6 connectivity as well as classic IPv4 connectivity. In addition to offering enterprises free IPv6 certification, in July Hurricane released an IPv4 depletion Application for the iPhone and Google Android An open platform for cellphones from the Open Handset Alliance (OHA). Based on Linux, Android includes a library of Java classes for building mobile applications. Android and GPhone platform and additional tools to educate CIOs and network administrators about the urgency of this transition. About Hurricane Electric Hurricane Electric is a leading Internet backbone and colocation provider specializing in colocation, dedicated servers, direct Internet connections and web hosting Making a Web site available on the Internet. Many ISPs host a few personal Web pages for an individual at no additional cost above the monthly service fee, but the address is subordinate to the ISP; for example, www.friendlyisp.com/pat_smith. . Hurricane Electric operates its own global network, running multiple OC192s, OC48s and Gigabit Ethernet An Ethernet standard that transmits at 1 Gbps. Used mostly to connect high-end workstations and servers as well as for network backbones, Gigabit Ethernet transmits full duplex from point to point using switches and half duplex in a shared environment (CSMA/CD) using a hub. . President Mike Leber founded Hurricane Electric in a garage in 1994. Hurricane Electric now operates an international backbone network A backbone network provides a path for the exchange of information between different LANs or subnetworks.[1] A backbone can tie together diverse networks in the same building, in different buildings in a campus environment, or over wide areas. and owns several datacenters, including a new 200,000 square-foot Fremont 2 colocation facility. For additional information on Hurricane Electric, please visit http://www.he.net. |
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