By partnering with a network provider that has designed its network to satisfy a broad range of cloud-connectivity options, every enterprise can obtain a solution tailored to its unique operational and financial requirements and thereby achieve its cloud-computing objectives.

By engaging with a network provider which has built a multi-layer network, with a Layer-2 Ethernet-over-MPLS architecture and a Layer-3 IP architecture, IT executives can satisfy all their requirements.  Such a flexible and ultra-responsive network offers:

• Scalability Designed for Maximum Need, Priced for Actual Use

An on demand, burstable bandwidth model, which allows billing for actual usage of capacity

• Transparent Access at the Edge Leverages Embedded Investments
Both Layer-2 and Layer-3 access interfaces with the enterprise, along with MPLS-based data encapsulation and routing of traffic through the core to the termination point(s)

• Automation and NNIs Accelerate End-to-End Service Provisioning
Automated provisioning of new connections and, via established network-to-network interfaces (NNIs) with both cloud-service providers and local access providers, fast turn-ups of new services

• Reliable, Secure Technology Delivers Reliable, Secure Cloud Connectivity
Carrier-grade reliability, performance and security, with built-in physical diversity and route diversity

• NNIs Give the Enterprise  Around-the-World Connectivity
Enterprises can take advantage of the network provider's emphasis on NNIs to get to just about anywhere in the world.

As a result, users can retain their familiar access methods, and the enterprise obtains cloud connectivity while also preserving its CapEx/OpEx budgets.

A Cloud-Networking Partner

In their ongoing quest to increase productivity, enhance operating efficiencies and reduce costs, more and more enterprises are moving to the cloud.

Although the cloud and all the virtual solutions residing within it seem to get the lion's share of attention, IT executives know they can take advantage of the cloud's capabilities only if the enterprise has the right kind of cloud connectivity. They also recognize that not all networks are built to give the enterprise flexible, reliable and secure access to cloud-based applications and services.

Consequently, IT executives want to partner with a network provider that understands that each enterprise has its own set of unique connectivity requirements. By working with a partner that can tailor its network capabilities to the needs of each enterprise, every enterprise can achieve the operational and competitive benefits that cloud computing promises.

Corey Eng is the Chief Marketing Officer for GTT