Hurricane Electric Extends Global Network to Garden City, New York

Hurricane Electric has added a new PoP at Webair, a leading managed cloud-based infrastructure solutions provider. The new PoP is located in Webair’s NY1 facility at 501 Franklin Avenue, Suite 200 Garden City, NY 11530.

Webair’s New York data center is a fully-redundant Tier 3 data center, with 25,000 sq. ft. of raised floor space. It offers eight different carriers and multiple points of access to the facilities. This PoP is Hurricane Electric’s 85th in the United States, and will provide enterprises in the New York area with improved fault tolerance, load balancing and congestion management in the delivery of next generation IP connectivity services.

Customers of Webair and those in and near New York now have a variety of new 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 over 20,000 BGP sessions with over 7,500 different networks via more than 200 major exchange points and thousands of customer and private peering ports.