Coyote selects Hurricane Electric for IPv6 service offering

Application delivery and acceleration services provider Coyote Point Systems has selected US-based IPv6-native internet backbone and collocation provider Hurricane Electric to provide users of Coyote Point's Equalizer ADCs with direct access to Hurricane Electric's IPv6 service offering. Hurricane Electric operates global IPv4 and IPv6 networks and provides access tunnels to transmit IPv6 traffic inside normal IPv4 packets. By implementing a tunnel endpoint within their Equalizer EQ/OS 10 Application Delivery Controller, Coyote Point Systems customers can connect to Hurricane Electric's network to receive IPv4 and IPv6 transit services over the same connection at speeds up to 10 Gbps and greater. Coyote Point's EQ/OS 10 provides an interface to create a tunnel with Hurricane Electric's tunnel broker service at one end, and Coyote Point's Equalizer at the other. Companies looking for ways to establish an IPv6 presence on the internet will aid from the Hurricane Electric/Coyote Point agreement, which combines the Application Delivery functionality of Coyote Point's Equalizer product line with Hurricane Electric's Internet6 backbone. Coyote Point's Equalizer services provide an application delivery feature set, including server load balancing, SSL offload and compression and virtualisation management. In combination with instant IPv6 tunneling, these features allow Coyote Point customers to deliver managed applications. Servers located behind the Equalizer ADC can be configured with IPv4 addresses, IPv6 addresses, or both, providing an IPv4 to IPv6 transition experience.