Hurricane Electric


Hurricane Electric is a global Internet service provider offering IPv4 and IPv6 Internet access, transit, tools, and network applications, as well as data center colocation and hosting services in San Jose, California, and in Fremont, California, where the company is based.

IPv6

Hurricane Electric operates the largest Internet Protocol version 4 and Internet Protocol version 6 transit networks globally, as measured by the count of peering interconnections to other networks. The majority of these adjacencies are native IPv6 BGP sessions.
Hurricane Electric offers an IPv6 tunnel broker service, providing free connectivity to the IPv6 Internet via 6-in-4 IPv6 transition mechanisms. The company provides an online IPv6 certification program to further education and compliance in IPv6 technology. As of June 21, 2020, the company reports 76,110 provisioned tunnels spanning 196 countries via the IPv6 tunnel broker. 17,707 individuals in 165 countries have reached the highest level of the IPv6 certification.

Peering

Within its global network, Hurricane Electric is connected to more than 239 major exchange points and exchanges IP traffic directly with more than 9,021 different networks.
The European Internet Exchange Association ranks Hurricane Electric first in the world for the number of connections to Internet exchange points, with presence at more than 128 of Euro-IX member IXPs.

Peering Dispute

There is a long-running dispute between ISP Cogent and Hurricane Electric. As well as refusing Hurricane entry into the IPv6 Tier-1 league, Cogent is also fighting with Google for the same reason.