Hurricane Electric Opens New Toronto PoP at Coloware YTZ-1 Data Center

Hurricane Electric, operator of one of the world’s largest IPv6-native Internet backbones, has expanded its presence in Canada with the launch of a new Point of Presence (PoP) inside the Coloware YTZ-1 data center at 151 Front Street, Toronto. The location, known as the country’s most connected carrier hotel, provides direct access to hundreds of service providers and TorIX, Canada’s largest Internet exchange.

By selecting this facility, Hurricane Electric strengthens its regional reach while enabling businesses to leverage next-generation IP services with improved resilience and performance.

Toronto’s role as a technology and economic hub makes the expansion strategically significant. The city not only represents Canada’s largest IT cluster but also serves as a critical center for finance, manufacturing, and media. It is home to a growing startup ecosystem supported by leading universities and immigration-friendly policies, creating a strong base of enterprises that rely on advanced connectivity to operate and scale. Situated only 20 kilometers from Toronto Pearson International Airport, the Coloware site is positioned to provide low-latency connections to both domestic and international markets.

Coloware YTZ-1 brings with it Tier III+ specifications, including dual utility feeds, N, N+1, and 2N power configurations, and redundancy across critical systems. Cooling efficiency is achieved through Enwave’s Deep Lake Water Cooling system, while additional safeguards such as 24/7 security and a multi-zone VESDA fire detection apparatus ensure operational continuity. Clients benefit from secure colocation options, private pods, dedicated meet-me spaces with fiber connectivity, and an ISO 27001 certification that underpins its 100% uptime guarantee.

Connectivity across Ontario

The Toronto deployment marks Hurricane Electric’s 20th PoP in Canada and its fifth in the city alone, underscoring the company’s commitment to strengthening connectivity across Ontario. By offering access to 100GE, 10GE, and GigE ports, the company enables enterprises to directly connect to its global IPv4 and IPv6 backbone. Customers can also exchange IP traffic with Hurricane Electric’s extensive ecosystem, which includes over 310 Internet exchange points and more than 40,000 BGP sessions across 10,000 different networks worldwide.

Hurricane Electric President Mike Leber emphasized the strategic importance of this collaboration, noting that it expands customer access to high-speed global connectivity while reinforcing the backbone of digital services in one of Canada’s most connected cities. For enterprises and service providers, the new PoP brings enhanced fault tolerance, load balancing, and congestion management, offering the resiliency required to support bandwidth-heavy applications in cloud computing, financial services, and media distribution.

The investment highlights the growing importance of Toronto in the global Internet infrastructure map. As organizations across industries demand higher levels of network performance and reliability, PoPs like this are essential to sustaining digital growth, enabling businesses to connect at scale and with confidence to the global Internet ecosystem.