NE1 Updates
NE1
Goes IPv6!
NE1 Data Centres are pleased to announce that their Data
Centre in Gateshead will be the first of its facilities to
operate a Dual Stack network, having the ability to handle IPV6
and IPv4 traffic.
NE1 have partnered with one of the world’s
largest telecoms companies, Level 3 (also known as Global
Crossing) to provide native IPv6 connectivity, direct to central
Gateshead, with a planned live date of January 10th
2012. This brings a number of firsts to Gateshead, IPv6 and fast
IP transit to almost anywhere in the world, with New York being
an estimated 8 milliseconds.
The IP transit from Level 3 is planned to go
live in mid-December, providing 1Gb of bandwidth direct into the
Gateshead Data Centre, this compliments existing links from
other carriers which are already active. Level 3 will be
installing a second 1Gb link in March, to provide additional
resilience, this is being delivered to Gateshead’s very own
Superfast Fibre provider, G-ti, where it will be backhauled, via
a different route, into the Gateshead Data Centre.
Businesses in Newcastle and Gateshead are
being urged to take advantage and book now since space in this
Data Centre is limited. The company’s second Data Centre is due
to open in spring 2012 and will not operate a dual stack
network; it will offer only IPv6 connectivity.
This comes at a time when traditional IPv4
addresses are becoming harder to obtain as the rush to get
online shows no signs of slowing down. NE1 have taken the
decision to move to the freely available IPv6 addressing in
order to provide customers with the highest levels of
flexibility while providing enough address space for our future
clients. By making the change now, before we build more Data
Centre’s, NE1 will avoid the headaches when other ISP’s force
their clients to change because they are unable to obtain new
IPv4 addresses.
Existing customers are being offered the
chance to move to the new IPv6 addressing with a period of
running ‘Dual Stack’ to ensure their individual transition goes
smoothly. One of the first customers to move to IPv6 will be
Pattinson’s Estate Agents who have a call centre connected with
NE1’s NE8 Metro product.
Ken Mosley, NE1 Data Centre’s Managing
Director, said “NE1 Data Centres have always strived to be at
the forefront of technology, this is another first for our
customers. We chose Level 3 over traditional telecoms providers
because of their ability to move with the times and provide the
services we need when we need them. Gateshead is the first of
many planned small but strategically placed Data Centres.”
See www.ne1.info for full details.
Contacts: Newcastle ONE Leisure
sales@ne1.info
telephone 0191 490 2525,
www.ne1.info
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Notes For Editors:
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NE1 Data Centres
are an independent data centre operator opening a network of
small, strategically placed data centres across North East
England and beyond. The company plans to have 10 full time
employees by mid 2013.
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G-ti is a
superfast and state of the art world-class fibre network as fast
and reliable as any in the world. Delivered by Gateshead Council
and Alcatel-Lucent the network allows businesses in Gateshead to
operate at a super speed of up to 10 Gigabits per second of
bandwidth with a capability of delivering speeds in the region
of 40 Gigabits per second to meet future demand.
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Level 3 and Global
Crossing joined forces on October 4th 2011, under the
brand name Level 3. As a leading global provider of
telecommunications services, Level 3 delivers a comprehensive
portfolio of converged voice, video, data and managed services
to enterprise, content, wholesale and government customers. The
new integrated network unites Level 3's broad, deep U.S. and
European footprint with Global Crossing's extensive
international network in Europe, Latin America, and Asia. The
new network reaches more than 450 core network markets in more
than 45 countries.
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IPv4 Exhaustion - IANA's
central pool of available IPv4 addresses was exhausted on 1
February 2011. The depletion of the pool of IPv4 addresses is a
key milestone in the history of the development of the Internet.
More details at
http://www.ripe.net/internet-coordination/ipv4-exhaustion
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