Hurricane Electric, which offers a large IPv6-native Internet backbone, deployed a new point-of-presence (PoP) in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The new PoP is located at 725 6th Street N.W..
This Tier 3, 60,000+ square-foot facility includes multi-use office space and three data centers, all located in downtown Albuquerque. The building has 12” reinforced exterior walls and features multiple security measures, including secured entry badge access.
Other highlights include:
- Three data center floors.
- Redundant 1000KVA utility inputs.
- 750KW and 350KW generators and ATS.
- 5X UPS, totaling more than 750KVA of UPS power.
- 190+ tons of data floor air conditioning.
- Fiber internet carriers.
- Suites, cages and full/partial racks.
- Compliance tested with backing SLAs.
The PoP is Hurricane Electric’s second in Albuquerque, and is expected to provide the greater southwest with improved fault tolerance, load balancing and congestion management in the delivery of next-gen IP connectivity services.
Customers of Oso Grande and in and around Albuquerque have a variety of new connectivity options, as well as access to Hurricane Electric’s IPv4 and IPv6 network, through 100GE, 10GE and GigE ports. Additionally, customers at the facility can exchange IP traffic with Hurricane Electric’s global network, which offers over 40,000 BGP sessions with 10,000+ different networks via more than 310 major exchange points and thousands of customer and private peering ports.
