Not sure about AWS, but if you are a client of Dimension Data cloud, you don't need to do anything. Everything will be taking care off from the provider perspective. Didata will peer with your tier 1/MPLS - acts as CPE...etc I am pretty sure AWS does that for you as well. Else you could spin up a CSR1000v inside the AWS and ask them to connect you. On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 2:25 PM, George Herbert <george.herbert@gmail.com> wrote:
If you're asking if one can get a provider's router to handle the outside physical part of a DC connection... As an ISP service so you don't need your own router hardware...
I was working on this for a recent ex client and asked Level 3 exactly that question. I believe I had the right network guy on the phone and it was a firm no.
I was going to check all the other Direct Connect providers but client ran out of $$.
If anyone does do that, I would like to know and pass it along to ex client for their information.
George William Herbert Sent from my iPhone
On Mar 1, 2016, at 9:16 AM, "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
Just got this dropped on my desk an hour ago, and I'm not finding as much material online as I might have hoped for...
It looks like the easiest solution is to just hang a router/firewall at Equinix Ashburn and AWS-DC to that, and then peer it to carriers both IP and MPLS; is there a "native" way to do that from an AWS VPC instead?
Any public or private replies cheerfully accepted; will summarize what I can to the list.
Cheers, -- jra
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