One of the biggest advantages of colocating your workloads in a DataBank data center is the ability to leverage direct connectivity from your infrastructure to a rich ecosystem of customers, carriers, cloud, content and application providers within our data centers and between our nearby data centers on the same campus.
Cross Connects provide dedicated, point-to-point connections between two customers in the same DataBank data center. With cross connects, you receive the most secure, reliable, and efficient way to connect your infrastructure to other customers within the same DataBank data center enabling your business to scale and to achieve affordable integration and exchange data.
Instantly submit an order and receive ticket status
Streamline the ordering process
Reduce delivery times
Empower your team with control and visibility
Functionality
View existing cross connects
View price, cost, term, and Letters of Authorization (LOAs)
View circuit IDs and carriers
Expedite orders
Order remote hands for related patch cables
Specify a “need by” date
Download a fully executed copy of the order
Common Use Cases
Private peering
Connect to private WANs
Connect to a central switching fabric
Receive and deliver services
Exchange traffic
Intra-Building Riser
Provides a pre-run SMF connection enabling customers to connect to another suite within a multi-tenant building
DataBank colocation customers can leverage the carrier density within the building by selecting a carrier even when the carrier (or another customer) is not directly within DataBank’s suite but is still present within the same building
Provides the benefit of gaining fast and reliable access to a wide range of partners and their services
Innerduct
Enables carrier connectivity by granting the innerduct customer permission to enter the DataBank data center for connectivity via the use of DataBank-owned, dedicated, and secure facility
This connectivity can be carrier-to-customer or customer-to-customer
Provides the unique benefit that allows DataBank customers to pull fiber into the DataBank data center
Campus Cross Connect
Campus cross connects can be used by customers to connect to one another between data centers on the same campus
This service is a Layer 1, dark fiber, SMF product
Provides the benefit of gaining fast and reliable access to a wide range of partners and their services