IPv6 Peering and the Hurricane Electric Network IPv6 Native Backbone – Massive Peering! 27 th May 2008 – NAPLA 2008 at LACNIC XI Salvador Bahia Brazil Martin J. Levy, Director IPv6 Strategy Hurricane Electric
27th May 2008 The Hurricane Electric Network - IPv6 Massive Peering! - NAPLA 2008 at LACNIC XI - Salvador, Bahai, Brazil - Martin J. Levy - Director IPv6 Strategy Page 2 Hurricane Electric – Roots and History Founded 14 years ago - ISP & datacenter operator Roots within the Silicon Valley high-tech community Nationwide network in 1999 Starts IPv6 native and tunnel connectivity in 2001 European expansion in 2005 Purchased 206,000 sq ft datacenter building in 2006 Native IPv6 backbone in Q Ranked # 1 IPv6 backbone for BGP adjacencies in Q Expands IPv6 TunnelBroker to nine US & European cities Supports and sponsors global open-software projects
27th May 2008 The Hurricane Electric Network - IPv6 Massive Peering! - NAPLA 2008 at LACNIC XI - Salvador, Bahai, Brazil - Martin J. Levy - Director IPv6 Strategy Page 3 Hurricane Electric The Network and its Peering
27th May 2008 The Hurricane Electric Network - IPv6 Massive Peering! - NAPLA 2008 at LACNIC XI - Salvador, Bahai, Brazil - Martin J. Levy - Director IPv6 Strategy Page 4 Hurricane Electric – IPv6 Network Reach IPv6 Peering Locations All Hurricane Electric POPs are full IPv6 Native routing and peering N by 10Gbps 10Gbps IPv6 peering at all major peering points in US and Europe. Private and public peering capacity at 1Gbps & 10Gbps.
27th May 2008 The Hurricane Electric Network - IPv6 Massive Peering! - NAPLA 2008 at LACNIC XI - Salvador, Bahai, Brazil - Martin J. Levy - Director IPv6 Strategy Page 5 Hurricane Electric – IPv6 Peering Points LocationExchange100FEGigE10GigEIPv4 AddressIPv6 Address Seattle, WashingtonSIX10GigE :478:180::40 San Francisco Bay AreaPAIX Palo Alto10GigE :504:d::10 EQUINIX-SJC10GigE :504:0:1::6939:1 Los Angeles, CAAny2-LAX10GigE :504:13:0:0:0:0:1A LAIIXGigE :504:a::a500:6939:1 EQUINIX-LAX10GigE :504:0:3::6939:1 Chicago, IllinoisEQUINIX-CHI10GigE :504:0:4::6939:1 Dallas, TexasEQUINIX-DAL10GigE :504:0:5::6939:1 New YorkPAIX New York10GigE :504:f::39 NYIIX10GigE :504:1::a500:6939:1 NYCXGigE BIGEAPE100FE2001:458:26:2::500 Washington, DCEQUINIX-ASH10GigE :504:0:2::6939:1 Miami, FloridaNOTA10GigE :478:124::176 London, EnglandLINX10GigE :7f8:4:0::1b1b:1 LoNAPGigE :7f8:17::1b1b:1 Amsterdam, NetherlandsAMS-IX10GigE :7f8:1::a500:6939:1 NL-IXGigE :7f8:13::a500:6939:1 Paris, FrancePaNAP10GigE :860:0:6::6939:1 Frankfurt, GermanyDE-CIX10GigE :7f8::1b1b:0:1
27th May 2008 The Hurricane Electric Network - IPv6 Massive Peering! - NAPLA 2008 at LACNIC XI - Salvador, Bahai, Brazil - Martin J. Levy - Director IPv6 Strategy Page 6 Hurricane Electric – IPv6 Addressing IPv6 addressing at NAP/IXs Sometimes using BCD encoding Sometimes by duplicating the IPv4 addresses 2001:504:0:2::6939:1 AS Number Provider / :478:180::40
27th May 2008 The Hurricane Electric Network - IPv6 Massive Peering! - NAPLA 2008 at LACNIC XI - Salvador, Bahai, Brazil - Martin J. Levy - Director IPv6 Strategy Page 7 Hurricane Electric – Where to peer next? Simply put: We only expand the network into IPv6 enabled NAP/IXs! So where next? AtlantaIX (Atlanta, Georgia) TorIX (Toronto, Canada) … and more
27th May 2008 The Hurricane Electric Network - IPv6 Massive Peering! - NAPLA 2008 at LACNIC XI - Salvador, Bahai, Brazil - Martin J. Levy - Director IPv6 Strategy Page 8 Hurricane Electric – Network Philosophy Single hardware partner – Foundry Networks 20 months into IPv6 native network deployment Partnered to iron-out operational issues Efficient per-port costs (at 1Gbps & 10Gbps) Full sflow data vs. nothing on C & J platform MPLS capable POP to POP to POP Provides granular control of network bandwidth Clean network design end-to-end – no legacy elements Scalable!
27th May 2008 The Hurricane Electric Network - IPv6 Massive Peering! - NAPLA 2008 at LACNIC XI - Salvador, Bahai, Brazil - Martin J. Levy - Director IPv6 Strategy Page 9 Hurricane Electric Where did all this lead us? (or – was it worth it?)
27th May 2008 The Hurricane Electric Network - IPv6 Massive Peering! - NAPLA 2008 at LACNIC XI - Salvador, Bahai, Brazil - Martin J. Levy - Director IPv6 Strategy Page 10 Hurricane Electric – IPv6 Status (CAIDA) See: for full description and explanation. Hurricane Electric CAIDA status as of January 2008 – Further improved since
27th May 2008 The Hurricane Electric Network - IPv6 Massive Peering! - NAPLA 2008 at LACNIC XI - Salvador, Bahai, Brazil - Martin J. Levy - Director IPv6 Strategy Page 11 Hurricane Electric – IPv6 Status (CAIDA) Hurricane Electric Center of CAIDA graph Yes!
27th May 2008 The Hurricane Electric Network - IPv6 Massive Peering! - NAPLA 2008 at LACNIC XI - Salvador, Bahai, Brazil - Martin J. Levy - Director IPv6 Strategy Page 12 Hurricane Electric – IPv6 Status (Oregon) Data extracted from Hurricane Electric # 1 – 216 plus BGP associations
27th May 2008 The Hurricane Electric Network - IPv6 Massive Peering! - NAPLA 2008 at LACNIC XI - Salvador, Bahai, Brazil - Martin J. Levy - Director IPv6 Strategy Page 13 Hurricane Electric Native peering vs. all those tunnels
27th May 2008 The Hurricane Electric Network - IPv6 Massive Peering! - NAPLA 2008 at LACNIC XI - Salvador, Bahai, Brazil - Martin J. Levy - Director IPv6 Strategy Page 14 Hurricane Electric – IPv6 Tunnel Broker IPv6 Tunnel Broker Locations Geographically diverse locations allowing customers best routing N by 10Gbps 10Gbps
27th May 2008 The Hurricane Electric Network - IPv6 Massive Peering! - NAPLA 2008 at LACNIC XI - Salvador, Bahai, Brazil - Martin J. Levy - Director IPv6 Strategy Page 15 Hurricane Electric – TunnelBroker stats Google announcement matches IETF meeting timeline
27th May 2008 The Hurricane Electric Network - IPv6 Massive Peering! - NAPLA 2008 at LACNIC XI - Salvador, Bahai, Brazil - Martin J. Levy - Director IPv6 Strategy Page 16 Hurricane Electric – IPv6 Native Services IPv6 native router platform across all POPs All IPv6 BGP customer connections are native IPv6 dual-stack & native DNS servers IPv6 dual-stack & native NTP servers IPv6 & IPv4 public looking glass & route servers 24/7 NOC with IPv6 expertise Datacenter facilities with IPv6 hosting services
27th May 2008 The Hurricane Electric Network - IPv6 Massive Peering! - NAPLA 2008 at LACNIC XI - Salvador, Bahai, Brazil - Martin J. Levy - Director IPv6 Strategy Page 17 Q&A Contact: Martin J. Levy Director, IPv6 Strategy Hurricane Electric 760 Mission Court Fremont, CA 94539, USA martin at he dot net +1 (510) ?