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Control Center: Dynamic Connections (Ethernet)
With Dynamic Connections, you can provision real-time, layer-2 network connections between your locations (an Ethernet endpoint device) and partner interconnects, including cloud providers such as AWS, Google, IBM Cloud, Microsoft Azure/Azure Gov, and Oracle/Oracle Gov. Dynamic Connections are billed hourly and require no long-term contracts.
For Dynamic Connections to Microsoft Azure, your equipment must support 802.1ad (Q-in-Q). We recommend configuring your router for Q-in-Q before creating your Dynamic Connection in Control Center. Q-in-Q can be difficult to set up. Use the example below to help you set up Q-in-Q.
Here’s an example below with a Cisco router.
You’ll assign the outer tag in Control Center and the inner tag in the Azure portal (peering VLAN).
‘Primary EVC VLAN – 100 - Control Center
‘Secondary EVC VLAN – 200 - Control Center
‘Private Peering – VLAN 300 - Azure portal
‘MSFT Peering – VLAN 400 - Azure portal
interface GigabitEthernet0/1.100300
encapsulation dot1Q 100 second-dot1q 300 ‘Azure Private primary peer
description "Cloud Connect"
ip address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 255.255.255.252
interface GigabitEthernet0/1.200300
encapsulation dot1Q 200 second-dot1q 300 ‘Azure Private secondary peer
description "Cloud Connect"
ip address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 255.255.255.252
interface GigabitEthernet0/1.100400
encapsulation dot1Q 100 second-dot1q 400 ‘MSFT primary peer
description "Cloud Connect"
ip address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 255.255.255.252
interface GigabitEthernet0/1.200400
encapsulation dot1Q 200 second-dot1q 400 ‘MSFT secondary peer
description "Cloud Connect"
ip address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 255.255.255.252
Creating and managing your Dynamic Connections (Ethernet)
To access Dynamic Connections for your organization in Control Center, click Orders, then click Dynamic Connections - Ethernet.
Creating Dynamic Connections (Ethernet)
Connections using your locations:
- Creating a connection between two of your locations
- Creating a connection from your location to AWS Hosted Connections
- Creating a connection from your location to Microsoft Azure
- Creating a connection from your location to Microsoft Azure Gov
- Creating a connection from your location to Google
- Creating a connection from your location to IBM Cloud
- Creating a connection from your location to Oracle
- Creating a connection from your location to Oracle Gov
Connections between two cloud service providers:
- Creating a connection between AWS Hosted Connections and IBM Cloud
- Creating a connection between AWS Hosted Connections and Oracle
- Creating a connection between AWS Hosted Connections and Google
- Creating a connection between Google and IBM Cloud
- Creating a connection between Google and Oracle
- Creating a connection between Oracle and IBM Cloud
- Creating a connection between Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Azure Gov
- Creating a connection between two AWS Hosted Connections
- Creating a connection between two Google locations
- Creating a connection between two IBM Cloud locations
- Creating a connection between two Microsoft Azure Gov locations
- Creating a connection between two Microsoft Azure locations
- Creating a connection between two Microsoft Azure Gov locations
- Creating a connection between two Oracle locations
- Creating a connection between two Oracle Gov locations
Managing Dynamic Connections (Ethernet)
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