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Hurricane Electric to Extend Support to World IPv6 Launch

By Mini Swamy, TMCnet Contributor

Hurricane Electric (News - Alert), which has strengthened its position as a global IPv6 transit provider, announced its support of the World IPv6 Launch, scheduled to occur on June 6, 2012.

This launch, sponsored by the Internet society, is a continuation of the successful one-day World IPv6 Day event held last June. The event represents a major milestone in the global deployment of IPv6. As a successor to the current Internet Protocol IPv4, IPv6 is critical to the growth of the Internet.

Regarded as the largest IPv6 backbone in the world, Hurricane Electric first deployed IPv6 on its global backbone in 2001. As its network is dual stack, Hurricane Electric has been delivering IPv6 transit and IPv4 on a single customer connection.

“Since the 2001 launch of our global IPv6 network, every day has been IPv6 Day at Hurricane Electric,” said Martin Levy (News - Alert), director of IPv6 Strategy at Hurricane Electric. “The opportunity to be at the forefront of this historic transition across the globe and ensure that the Internet thrives in the years to come is exciting. With the significant support of Hurricane Electric’s IPv6 backbone, World IPv6 Launch Day will succeed.”

Hurricane Electric, which provides IPv6 transit to many of the websites and vendors participating in the launch, will be supporting much of the increased IPv6 traffic flow for the launch.

Some of the world's largest ISPs and Web content providers will enable IPv6 permanently. For some, the launch date is a deadline to ensure that at least one percent of their users use IPv6 to connect to IPv6 enabled websites. ISPs are also committed to subsequently automatically enable IPv6 for all their subscribers

Facebook, Google (News - Alert), Microsoft Bing, and Yahoo! are expected to permanently enable IPv6 connectivity.

In related news Hurricane Electric announced that it is partnering with NIX CZ, the Czech Republic’s largest Internet exchange, to provide its popular IPv6 certification program n the Czech language. The new certification offering will feature content identical to Hurricane Electric’s existing programs. The programs are self-paced and certify level of mastery (from “Newbie” to “Sage”) of real-world IPv6 concepts and deployment techniques.

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