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PEER 1 Hosting brings IPv6 enabled network online
May 2011 by Emmanuelle Lamandé
PEER 1 Hosting announced the arrival of its IPv6 enabled 10GB backbone network, bringing future-ready network reach to customers ahead of the imminent IPv4 address exhaustion.
PEER 1 Hosting’s network is one of the first hosting providers supporting both IPv4 and IPv6 traffic, ensuring customers’ websites remain visible to all users around the world, irrespective of the networks or hardware they are using.
The IPv6 upgrade is the result of £7.5m investment over the last three years by PEER 1 Hosting, and has included a beta phase, allowing co-location and transit customers to test the backbone through PEER 1’s network of data centres. Offering both IPv4 and IPv6 network capabilities, will allow PEER 1’s hosting and co-location customers to adopt the new protocol at their own pace, by providing a bridge to both worlds as networks transition the evolution towards IPv6 as standard protocol.
PEER 1 Hosting is ahead of the curve in bringing online IPv6 for its customers, whilst industry debate continues to procrastinate over standards and adoption. The PEER 1 backbone will also offer the added network benefits of the IPv6 protocol including increased addressing capacity, more flexible security, the ability to expand infrastructure and accelerate business.
