The convergence of cloud and communications is at a tipping point, accelerating the demand for new enterprise services. The dependence of these services on single hyperscale clouds can be a nightmare for availability and disaster recovery. Enterprises need to seek multi-cloud and hybrid cloud services to avoid getting handcuffed into a single cloud vendor and be able to take full advantage of a true modern network. Achieving that goal requires a multi-cloud networking solution with a routing fabric that enables cloud-to-cloud connectivity, connecting to multiple pools of capacity.

Key Topics will Include:

• Speeding time to market – new applications can be deployed quickly across multiple national/international markets using inter-market connectivity
• Business agility – flexible platforms allow for interoperability to IT service providers and site-to-site connectivity solutions
• Expand market reach – leverage inter-market connectivity to reach more enterprises and interconnection among an ecosystem of providers
• Reduce total cost of operation – direct cloud connectivity cuts data egress fees, and adding virtual router capabilities, removes investment in routing equipment
• Increased security – direct connections create private network isolation for enterprises which is more secure than connecting through the public internet
• Improved customer experience – low-latency performance assures consistent experience from the core to the edge
• Business simplification - enabling customers to blend pools of capacity and provision across them. Simplify onboarding and reach customers through a single network interface
• Rapid scaling - allow enterprises to create applications that can be programmed on top of a uniform API/SDK-like interface
• Resource optimization - use of orchestration capability to launch or spawn virtual routers in different clouds