VXC

100G VXC Expansion: Now Available From 597 Data Centers Worldwide

• News

Our 100G connectivity is now one of the most widely available in the NaaS market with new locations across America, Asia Pacific, and Europe.

Solutions to Common API Issues With Megaport

• Cloud Networking

This detailed guide gives you 11 solutions to common API problems, so you can automate and streamline your deployments with ease.

Megaport's New Portal Features and Functionalities

• News , Cloud Networking

In this blog post, we’re excited to share the details of some recent feature updates, each meticulously designed to provide you with more flexibility, improved performance, and a more intuitive user experience.

The Enterprise’s Guide to AWS Direct Connect and Transit Gateway

• Cloud Networking

Demystifying Direct Connect and Transit Gateway so you can better understand your AWS networking capabilities.

When to Use ExpressRoute Local for Microsoft Azure Private Peering

• Cloud Networking

A checklist for knowing how to make ExpressRoute Local on Microsoft Azure right for you.

Design Scenarios for Multicloud: Diversity and Design Principles

• Cloud Networking

How to define requirements, then design different multicloud scenarios, using Megaport and Megaport Cloud Router. If you are a loyal reader of our blog, you likely came across one of our popular posts, Nine Common Scenarios for Multicloud Design, illustrating different options to connect from on-premises infrastructure to CSPs with or without Megaport Cloud Router (MCR). Over the year and a half since it was released, we have worked with a large number of customers adapting the common scenario designs. We have taken their input, added some improvements to Megaport’s global network, and produced a new set of design scenarios that are focused on diversity and design principles, which we will discuss in this article.

AWS Hosted Connection Webinar Series Wrap Up and Q and A

• Partners

We Answer the Top Five Questions from our Recent AWS Hosted Connection Webinar Series

Using Megaport to Simplify your Partner Connectivity Ecosystem

• Cloud Networking

How to connect your offices, private data centres, and public cloud partners – easily. Businesses thrive on communication – with customers, with partners, and with suppliers. Very few organisations operate in isolation, so it makes sense that communicating with the external arms of your workplace should be as easy and secure as possible. Some prefer to keep external communications limited to standard business applications, such as email and document sharing tools, along with other SaaS-based solutions, which may work perfectly well for certain verticals.

3 Ways Dedicated Connectivity is Transforming Healthcare

• Cloud Networking

Exploring the advancements of connectivity for the healthcare industry.

Creating Network Redundancy with ExpressRoute Global Reach and Megaport

• Cloud Networking , Integrations

How to use Megaport’s Private VXC and Azure ExpressRoute Global Reach to connect to the cloud and build a fully redundant multi-vendor solution.

Creating a High-Performance Backup Architecture with Azure Site Recovery

• Cloud Networking

How direct connectivity to Azure’s built-in Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) could solve your business continuity and availability issues.

Achieving Network Redundancy with an Active/Active AWS Direct Connect Connection

• Cloud Networking

When it comes to moving mission-critical workloads into the cloud, backup is your best friend.

How Virtual Routing Solves BGP Challenges for Hybrid Cloud

Remove the complexities of connecting your on-premises and public cloud environments with Megaport Cloud Router’s virtual networking capabilities. Like many other enterprise companies, you have probably made significant investments in your on-premises technologies. But as cloud adoption continues to grow significantly, you might be exploring ways to up your cloud game to stay competitive. It’s time to embrace the benefits of both public and private cloud, and get the two working together. Hybrid cloud is the obvious choice. However, it’s the integration between your on-premises resources and public cloud resources that makes up that critical step to achieving a powerful overall cloud strategy – it’s the part you need to get right.

Q and A for Q-in-Q part 2

• Cloud Networking

The basics around double-stacked VLAN tagging, otherwise known as Q-in-Q, or by it’s formal IEEE definition, 802.1ad.

Visualising Megaport’s Network

• Cloud Networking

What do you guys do again? Here at Megaport, we offer customers several layer 2 network services on top of our layer 1 network. The physical network can be thought of as a set of points with connections between them, and is ultimately represented in a database structure something like this (representing a ring network of three locations): The physical network is (eye-wateringly) expensive and because of that is it relatively static over time. When our customers buy services they are effectively constructing their own virtual networks on top of ours, and this is much more dynamic, complex, and well, interesting. A table of data might be completely accurate but it is not very visually appealing, so what to do about that? When I hear ‘network’ I naturally think ‘graph’ and how I can visualise the data…