Director of Largest IPv6 Network to Keynote NZ Conference

Hurricane Electric’s Director of IPv6 Strategy to Keynote the New Zealand Network Operators’ Group (NZNOG) 2012 Conference

Martin Levy will present a report on IPv6 global routing readiness

Christchurch, New Zealand – January 24, 2012 – Fremont, California-based Hurricane Electric, the world’s largest IPv6-native Internet backbone and colocation provider, today announced that its Director of IPv6 Strategy, Martin Levy, will deliver the keynote address at the NZNOG conference 2012, which takes place on January 26th at the Copthorne Commodore Hotel in Christchurch.

During his keynote discussion, Mr. Levy will discuss Hurricane Electric’s history of IPv6 advocacy, global routing readiness, the substantial growth rate of global IPv6 adoption and a provocative timeline for the global exhaustion of the IPv4 address space by region. Mr. Levy will also touch on the costs and benefits of IPv6, its salient characteristics, and dual-stack transition strategies. In addition, Levy will discuss the consequences of failed or delayed transitions to IPv6.

Mr. Levy will also discuss the consequences of activities planned for World IPv6 Launch 2012, which will occur on June 6, 2012. On this date, major participants around the world will commit to ensuring that IPv6 addresses will be permanently advertised through the global Domain Name System (DNS).

“This conference is well timed, as June 6, 2012 is the day for world IPv6 adoption,” said Martin Levy. “I am honored to address the summit and look forward to sharing a global progress report on global IPv6 connectivity."

Hurricane Electric is one of the few global Internet backbones 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.

About Hurricane Electric

Fremont, California-based Hurricane Electric operates its own global IPv4 and IPv6 network and is considered the largest IPv6 backbone in the world as measured by number of networks connected. Within its global network, Hurricane Electric is connected to 50 major exchange points and exchanges traffic directly with more than 2,000 different networks. Employing a resilient fiber-optic topology, Hurricane Electric has no less than four redundant paths crossing North America, two separate paths between the U.S. and Europe, and rings in Europe and Asia. In addition to its vast global network, Hurricane Electric owns and operates two data centers in Fremont, California - including Fremont2, its newest 200,000 square-foot facility. Hurricane Electric offers IPv4 and IPv6 transit solutions over the same connection at speeds exceeding 10 Gbps.

Additional information can be found at http://he.net.

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