Data Center Interconnect in Minutes
Flexible, high-speed, carrier-class DCI between colocation data centers, clouds, and internet exchanges. Provision in minutes from a portal or API.
PacketFabric delivers data center interconnect (DCI) on demand. Connect colocation data centers, public clouds, SaaS, and internet exchange providers with Ethernet Private Line (EPL) and Ethernet Virtual Private Line (EVPL) over a global 65+ Terabit optical network. Provision DCI in real time through the portal or API, on monthly or longer terms.
Get carrier-class resiliency, five-nines SLAs, and predictable performance in minutes, not months.
Data Center Interconnect Built for Agility
Optimize your hybrid and multi-cloud architecture
Build an agile cloud core that connects colocation and cloud on one fabric.
Modernize your enterprise WAN
Make backbone and data center connectivity respond to the business
Improve your digital operations
Deliver better digital experiences and lower your cloud networking costs
PacketFabric NaaS: Built for Network Agility
Data Center Interconnection has long been a core aspect of enterprise WANs, yet is undergoing a significant evolution due to the need for greater business agility driven by digital and cloud transformation. DCI technology and consumption models have evolved beyond inflexible, long-term wavelength and Ethernet service contracts.
State-of-the-art interconnectivity between public cloud and private cloud data centers is an agile, API-driven network infrastructure service. Agile DCI solutions offer the scalability, high-performance, low latency, and high capacity bandwidth of private optical networking, but with the speed of provisioning and consumption flexibility of a cloud provider SDN.
Agility defines how PacketFabric built its carrier-class Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) platform from the ground up. At both the photonic DWDM layer and the Layer 2/3 routing/switching layer, the PacketFabric is wholly driven by API automation that enables on-demand provisioning and elastic consumption at monthly or longer terms with predictable pricing from metro to long-haul. Furthermore, the PacketFabric platform allows enterprises to provision up to 4K EVPL connections on-demand from a single 1G/10G/40G/100G port. The modular use of each port enables flexible network design for DCI applications, including disaster recovery and business continuity scenarios.
This agility of the PacketFabric NaaS gives enterprises the ability to design and deploy connectivity for their cloud ecosystem optimally and respond to changing business needs.
Connect hundreds of cololation data centers
Reach hundreds of colocation facilities worldwide, plus cloud, IX, and SaaS providers, on one global network. Connect the data centers your business depends on today, and add new colocation sites in minutes.
Why colocation anchors hybrid and multi-cloud
Enterprises keep moving applications to hyperscale clouds like AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, and to SaaS like Salesforce and Cisco Webex. Many workloads still stay on-premises for security, privacy, or regulatory reasons. That makes colocation data centers the anchor point of hybrid and multi-cloud architectures, and data center interconnect the layer that ties them together. Connecting colocation data centers to internet exchange providers is a core DCI use case for any digital business.
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Point-to-point connectivity
Forget expensive redundant waves. Connect global colocation facilities in minutes, from 1 Gbps to 100 Gbps, with turnkey EPL services.
Multi-Cloud routing
Turn on zero-touch, private multi-cloud connectivity from 50 Mbps to 100 Gbps with the Virtual Cloud Router.
Hybrid cloud connectivity
Build hybrid clouds between colocation sites and public cloud, IX, and SaaS providers, with hosted or dedicated metro or long-haul connections up to 100 Gbps.
Custom networking
Build a custom network from any mix of ports, private point-to-point, dedicated or hosted cloud connections, and multi-cloud routing, at varying terms.
In minutes. Order EPL or EVPL through the portal or API and turn up DCI in real time, not the weeks a traditional carrier needs.
EPL and EVPL from 1 Gbps to 100 Gbps, with up to 4,000 EVPL connections from a single 1G, 10G, 40G, or 100G port.
Colocation data centers, public clouds (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud), SaaS providers, and internet exchanges, across metro and long-haul.
No. Consume data center interconnect on monthly or longer terms with predictable pricing.
Point-to-point connectivity connects two specific endpoints. Data center interconnect is the broader practice of linking data centers, which can use point-to-point EPL, multipoint EVPL, and cloud connections. PacketFabric delivers both.
Data center interconnect (DCI) is the network connectivity that links two or more data centers so they can share data, applications, and resources. Enterprises use DCI to connect colocation (also spelled co-location) facilities to each other, to public clouds, and to internet exchanges. PacketFabric delivers DCI on demand with EPL and EVPL over a private optical network.