Hurricane Electric has announced the deployment of a new Point of Presence (PoP) at the Coloware YTZ-1 data center, located at 151 Front Street, Suite 504, Toronto, Ontario. The new PoP is the company’s fifth in Toronto and twentieth in Canada and is intended to add fault tolerance, load balancing, and congestion management for next-generation IP connectivity services to businesses across Ontario.
Coloware YTZ-1 is located in a major carrier hotel and provides access to hundreds of network providers, including TorIX, Canada’s largest internet exchange. The data center features 2,000 square feet of fully built-out whitespace, redundant utility power feeds (N, N+1, and 2N power), an Enwave Deep Lake Water Cooling System with redundant chilled water loops, and multi-zone Very Early Smoke Detection Apparatus (VESDA). Security is on-site 24/7, and the facility is ISO 27001 certified. Customers can access private pods, secure cabinets, and meet-me rooms with dedicated fiber connections. Coloware guarantees 100% uptime at this site.
Hurricane Electric states the new PoP gives Coloware customers and other organizations in Toronto access to its global IPv4 and IPv6 backbone via 100 Gigabit Ethernet (100GE), 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GE), and 1 Gigabit Ethernet (GigE) ports. The network supports over 40,000 Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) sessions and directly interconnects with more than 10,000 networks through more than 310 major exchange points, in addition to thousands of private peering ports.
Hurricane Electric operates a global fiber-optic network, citing five redundant 100 Gigabit paths across North America, four between the US and Europe, as well as 100 Gigabit ring architectures in Europe, Australia, Asia, and Africa. The provider supports both IPv4 and IPv6 transit services on the same connection.
“This new PoP brings critical high-speed connectivity to customers in and near Toronto and improves their access to the global network,” said Mike Leber, President of Hurricane Electric.
Source: Hurricane Electric
