Ethernet Transport

Cross-connects provide you a physical connection between two different points within a VPLS data center. These direct connections establish a reliable, high-speed connection between two different devices or colocation cabinets of your own, or between your business and another entity, such as a carrier, an IT service provider, or a business partner.

Inter-site connectivity allows your business to extend its network between locations, or to extend the on-premise network to the data center, all over a secure layer 1 or layer 2 connection.

This differs from our layer 3 Internet service in that your two networks will be directly connected over a low latency link – you won’t have to depend on Internet hops to get your packets to their destination.

We offer inter-site connectivity in several delivery options, at speeds all the way up to 10 Gbps.

offers cloud on-ramp services for customers who need a low latency, direct connection to a single public cloud provider, such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud (GCP).

Does your business have presence in more than one public cloud? With CloudHop™, your business can quickly achieve a high-performance multicloud architecture, providing low latency interconnectivity between these cloud providers and your own VPLS private cloud and/or on-premises network.

Read more about VPLS’ cloud on-ramps and multicloud connectivity options on our Public Cloud services page.

Today’s distributed organizations require high performance inter-site connectivity for mission critical and latency sensitive applications. However, path redundancy and circuit costs must also be added to the equation when deciding on a network topology to meet these business requirements. With Secure SD-WAN, VPLS provides our customers with secure, intelligent, and dynamic path selection and traffic steering between their HQ, the data center, the cloud, and any number of remote offices.

Secure SD-WAN is a security-first software-defined WAN architecture, and can leverage any type of circuit – MPLS, dark fiber, wave connections, Internet from VPLS, broadband, cellular. These links become members of the SD-WAN underlay network, which forms the underlying fabric of your own customized SD-WAN topology. Rather than sending all traffic over a single costly, high-performance link, a secure SD-WAN design ensures critical applications always get the best path – fastest, lowest latency, lowest jitter – and non-critical applications can use any of the other more cost-effective paths that meet their required SLAs.