IPv6-native Internet backbone, Hurricane Electric, has added a new Point of Presence (PoP) in Nebraska, in the US Mid West.

The facility houses one of the oldest carrier hotels in the area and has provided colocation services to regional and national carriers for two decades.

The new PoP (which resides in the carrier hotel) aims to give customers better fault tolerance, lower latency and increased network capacity.

It offers capacities ranging from 100GbE through 10GbE and down to 1GbE and 100BaseT network connections.

Customers can also exchange IP traffic with (or peer with) Hurricane Electric’s global network.

Hurricane Electric uses fiber-optic topology with four redundant paths crossing North America and two separate paths between the US and Europe, in addition it has rings in Europe and Asia.

Hurricane Electric, now the world’s largest provider of Internet Protocol’s latest incarnation, was an early pioneer of the technology having first installed and used IP Version 6 (IPv6) in 2001.

Hurricane Electric now offers IPv6 as a core service, with each customer given IPv6 connectivity as standard in addition to connectivity using the encumbent (version 4) of Internet protocol, IPv4.

Hurricane Electric is connected to 80 major exchange points and exchanges traffic directly with more than 3,400 different networks.

The new Nebraska Colocation Center (NCC) is located at 1623 Farnam Street, Omaha, Nebraska.