Hurricane Electric Deploys New PoP

Hurricane Electric, a large IPv6-native Internet backbone has deployed a new Point of Presence (PoP) at SFN IA-Davenport, operated by South Front Networks. The new PoP is located at 2814 North Clark St., Davenport, Iowa.

SFN builds and operates regional carrier neutral fiber optic networks in Iowa and Minnesota. This data center is located to provide reliable service to customers in and around this Iowa economic center. The PoP is Hurricane Electric’s first location in Iowa. It will provide enterprises in Scott County with improved fault tolerance, load balancing and congestion management in the delivery of next generation IP connectivity services.

As the largest of the Quad Cities, Davenport is flourishing with business. It is home to many manufacturing companies, along with many established IT companies. Davenport is among many Midwest cities that recognize the cash crop that is tech. Local industry leaders are working to drive a technology revolution.

Customers of SFN IA and those in and around Davenport now have a variety of connectivity options and access to Hurricane Electric’s extensive IPv4 and IPv6 network through 100GE (100 Gigabit Ethernet), 10GE (10 Gigabit Ethernet) and GigE (1 Gigabit Ethernet) ports. Additionally, customers at the facility are able to exchange IP traffic with Hurricane Electric’s vast global network, which offers more than 20,000 BGP sessions with more than 9,000 different networks via more than 250 major exchange points and thousands of customers and private peering ports.