Elastic Interconnect

Elastic Interconnect seamlessly combines top-tier connectivity services with comprehensive traffic control and visibility in ICON. It’s designed to support your organization’s digital transformation journey by providing high-quality connectivity, traffic segmentation, and private cloud connectivity in an integrated technical foundation with physical separation of traffic

At NL-ix, we manage the critical hardware of the Internet backbone, including routers, switches, datacenters, and fiber-optic cables. This infrastructure enables direct traffic routing between networks, minimizing the need for lengthy detours through third-party networks.

Coupled with our cutting-edge software, we offer you end-to-end Internet control. This means you can effectively manage, oversee, and influence how your corporate data travels from its origin to its destination network, ensuring all elements—whether technical, security, legal, or commercial—align with your desired outcomes.

Data in Transit could easily pass through a compromised server, with the data being checked and potentially copied. At NL-ix, we manage the critical hardware of the Internet backbone, including routers, switches, datacenters, and fiber-optic cables. This infrastructure enables direct traffic routing between networks, minimising the need for lengthy detours through third-party networks and avoiding the public Internet as much as possible.

The ‘Trusted Slice’ isolates critical traffic, making it less prone to cyber-attacks. In case of a DDoS attack on the public port, the trusted port remains available, allowing to remain traffic flow with all networks in the trusted slice.

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Elastic Interconnect augments the Cloud Connect portfolio of NL-ix in two significant ways. Firstly, within the Private Slice all cloud connections are consolidated and share the same service capacity with the other slices, making them more cost effective. Secondly, Elastic Interconnect offers more flexibility with cloud connections, as they don’t have a minimum term and can be terminated on a monthly basis.

Elastic Interconnect offers three traffic slices: Public, Trusted, and Private. Each slice has unique benefits. The Public Slice leverages NL-ix’s distributed Peering network for top-tier Internet connectivity. The Trusted Slice enhances security by isolating selected networks from the Public Slice. The Private slice consolidates all private connections with Cloud Service Providers like Azure and AWS. The distribution of traffic across these slices is flexible and falls within the service bandwidth of Elastic Interconnect.

Elastic Interconnect is designed to evolve with your company’s needs. If your primary interest is top-tier Internet connectivity, the Public Slice is a great starting point. If your focus is solely on Cloud Connectivity, it is possible to begin with the Private Slice only. Alternatively, if you don’t require private cloud connectivity, you can simply start with the Public and Trusted Slice. Elastic Interconnect offers the flexibility to choose what suits your needs best.

Comprehensive network security and additional measures like firewalls and other security services are essential. Elastic Interconnect complements, but does not replace, these services.

Elastic Interconnect needs to be combined with an anti-DDoS service. For this purpose, NL-ix holds partnerships with anti-DDoS providers like Akamai, NaWas and Netscope. During the technical design of Elastic Interconnect, NL-ix integrates the technical design with the anti-DDoS service you desire.

Absolutely! Elastic Interconnect seamlessly integrates with all major Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) such as AWS, Azure, Oracle, and Google Cloud. You can establish private connections to your virtual networks in these clouds, enabling a robust hybrid cloud architecture.

Elastic Interconnect is designed with organizational growth in mind. As traffic demands increases, you have the flexibility to adjust and expand the service bandwidth of Elastic Interconnect accordingly.

Yes! ICON, our self-service portal, offers live traffic monitoring. You can view bandwidth utilization, latency, and route details. ICON also provides historical data for analysis and optimization.

If you have placed an order at the NL-ix you will receive an 'order confirmation' mail. After the order confirmation has been send, the NL-ix provisioning team gets to work to deliver your order.

When the order has been delivered, for normal products usually within 10 working days after the order confirmation, the provisioning team will send an ‘order delivery’ email. This email contains all details you need to setup your connection. The delivery date is aso the start date of invoicing.

You can find more information in regards the Onboarding and Configuration proces at Support