Deployments strengthen connectivity across Canada’s largest digital infrastructure hub and bring Hurricane Electric’s Toronto footprint to seven locations
TORONTO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Hurricane Electric, the world’s largest IPv6-native Internet backbone, announced today that it has established two new Points of Presence (PoPs) at Telehouse Toronto facilities located at 151 Front Street West, Toronto, ON M5J 2N1, Canada, and 250 Front Street West, Toronto, ON M5V 3G5.
The Telehouse campuses at 151 and 250 Front Street West are central to Toronto’s digital infrastructure landscape. 151 Front Street West is Canada’s largest colocation facility, with access to the Toronto Internet Exchange, and fast connections to the city’s financial district, supporting a broad community of carriers, cloud providers, and enterprise customers. A short walk away, Telehouse Toronto’s 250 Front Street West site provides cloud hosting and colocation services with strong connectivity to major North American markets and cloud regions. High-capacity dark-fibre links between the two facilities enable customers to easily move traffic across the campus and connect to Telehouse’s wider Toronto footprint.
Toronto is Canada’s largest metropolitan economy and a rapidly growing center for financial services, artificial intelligence research, fintech, media, and cloud computing. Home to major banks, technology firms, and world-class universities, the city anchors much of the nation’s digital activity and continues to attract hyperscalers and global network operators seeking low-latency access to Canadian and cross-border markets.
The two new PoPs improve redundancy, load balancing, and route diversity for next-generation IP connectivity across the Greater Toronto Area and beyond. Customers at both Telehouse locations now have direct access to Hurricane Electric’s extensive IPv4 and IPv6 backbone through 100GE (100 Gigabit Ethernet), 10GE (10 Gigabit Ethernet), and GigE (1 Gigabit Ethernet) ports.
“With the addition of these two Telehouse facilities, Hurricane Electric now operates seven Points of Presence in Toronto,” said Mike Leber, President of Hurricane Electric. “Toronto’s position as Canada’s primary interconnection hub and its rapidly expanding digital economy make it a critical market for our continued investment and network growth.”
Through these deployments, enterprises, service providers, cloud platforms, and organizations in Toronto and across Canada can exchange IP traffic directly with Hurricane Electric’s vast global network, which offers more than 40,000 BGP sessions with over 10,500 networks via more than 320 major exchange points worldwide.
The expanded footprint reinforces Hurricane Electric’s commitment to Canada’s digital infrastructure ecosystem and to delivering resilient, low-latency Internet connectivity to organizations supporting AI workloads, capital markets, media distribution, and mission-critical enterprise operations.
About Hurricane Electric
Fremont, California-based Hurricane Electric operates its own global IPv4 and IPv6 network and is considered the largest IPv6 backbone in the world. Within its global network, Hurricane Electric is connected to more than 320 major exchange points and exchanges traffic directly with more than 10,500 different networks. Employing a resilient fiber-optic topology, Hurricane Electric has five redundant 100G paths crossing North America, four separate 100G paths between the U.S. and Europe, and 100G rings in Europe, Australia and Asia. Hurricane also has a ring around Africa, and a PoP in Auckland, NZ. Hurricane Electric offers IPv4 and IPv6 transit solutions over the same connection. Connection speeds available include 100GE (100 gigabits/second), 10GE, and gigabit ethernet. Additional information can be found at http://he.net.
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