Services

Ports/Interfaces

This is a physical port on PacketFabric equipment located in a colocation facility (a data center). The port is your entry point into the PacketFabric Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) platform.

When you provision a port, you make a number of decisions such as capacity/bandwidth, location, optics, availability zone, whether it should be an ENNI port, and what type of contract you want for the port.

The options you see when provisioning a port reflect our actual inventory, which is why availability can change from day to day. All our ports are pre-cabled and ready for for immediate use.

Cross connects

Once you get a port, you will need a cross connect. The cross connect is a stretch of cable with one end connected to your equipment and the other connected to the PacketFabric port provisioned.

The cable is installed by data center technicians and comes with a monthly fee and, often, a one-time connection cost. You can order the cross connect through PacketFabric or you can work directly with the colocation facility (the data center).

Virtual circuits

Virtual circuits are connections between locations. They follow physical pathways, but are created and managed via our API. You can create and/or then delete a virtual circuit within minutes.

Several of our services are essentially different flavors of a virtual circuit - marketplace connections, IX connections, Hosted cloud connections.

Dedicated cloud connections

When you provision a Dedicated cloud connection, you are provisioning your own port on PacketFabric equipment. This equipment is located in an on-ramp facility with a cloud service provider, and meets their requirements. You are issued an LOA on behalf of PacketFabric, which we use to install a cross connect to the CSP’s edge device.

Then you control that port and can build virtual circuits to that port from other locations on the PacketFabric network.

Hosted cloud connection

Cloud Router

Point-to-point