The PoP is Hurricane Electric’s third in Sydney and fourth in Australia and is designed to provide enterprises in Sydney and NSW with improved fault tolerance, load balancing and congestion management in the delivery of next generation IP connectivity services.

NextDC says Hurricane Electric, as the world’s largest IPv6-native Internet backbone provider, will bring increased high speed network connectivity to organisations with access to its extensive IPv4 and IPv6 network through 100GE (100 Gigabit Ethernet), 10GE (10 Gigabit Ethernet) and GigE (1 Gigabit Ethernet) ports.

“We are excited to welcome Hurricane Electric to the NEXTDC ecosystem. They are a company on the forefront of innovation for global connectivity, their exciting growth strategy and vision for helping customers to build resilient and reliable networks closely aligns to the commitment NEXTDC makes to our customers,” said Adam Scully, Chief Sales Officer at NEXTDC.

“Our vision is to empower our customers to leverage the full capability of the digital era. Our partnership with companies like Hurricane Electric enables us to deliver on that promise”.

“We’re pleased to provide NEXTDC’s customers in and around Sydney with cost-effective global connectivity options,” said Mike Leber, President of Hurricane Electric.

“The addition of this new location is important for our continued expansion in Australia and will help meet the bandwidth needs of the tech boom that Sydney is experiencing.”