Transport Services
A complete suite of Transport services
Transport services for all needs
Whether you need to connect equipment in two redundant datacenters or reach suppliers or partners in sites you don’t have a presence in, most companies have a need for Transport capacity between datacenter facilities.
NL-ix offers Transport services between all of Europe’s most important datacenters where it has a presence, and can use partners to connect other non-datacenter locations to an NL-ix covered datacenter.
The Transport services cover a complete suite of Transport services, supporting optical (Wave) as well as switched Transport technologies in point-to-(multi)point and even any-to-any topologies, suitable for all different needs.
Transport Technologies
The decision when selecting a Transport technology depends on what you will use the Transport for, as optical (Wave) and switched Transport each have their own unique characteristics.
Optical Transport (Wave) uses optical equipment to create a connection with a point-to-point topology and a fixed path with predictable latency and is therefore the perfect solution to carry out storage synchronisation and data replication tasks between datacenters. Optical Transport doesn’t use switches in the NL-ix network and is completely transparent, allowing you to add VLANs as required. For resilience, path redundancy is recommended.
Switched Transport uses switching equipment to create a logical connection between two or more datacenters within the NL-ix network. Because a switching network is used, traffic is automatically rerouted across the underlying fiber infrastructure if any issues arise, providing path redundancy.
| Optical Transport | Switched Transport |
|---|---|
| Static route | Highly flexible |
| Highest data Transport security | Easy scalable |
| Lowest latency data Transport | Fast provisioning |
| Predictable jitter | Fast rerouting |
| Dedicated bandwidth | High availability |
| Managed solution | Managed solution |
| Optical Transport | Switched (untagged) | Switched (tagged) | Switched (tagged) LAN | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Latency | Fixed | Low | Low | Low |
| Privacy | E-2-E dedicated | Private circuit | Private circuit | Private circuit |
| Topology | Point-2-point | Point-2-point | Point-2-(multi)point | Any-to-any |
| OSI | Layer 1 | Layer 2 | Layer 2 | Layer 2 |
| Underlay | DWDM | MPLS | MPLS | MPLS |
| Fixed path | Yes | No | No | No |
| Jumbo framing | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Q-in-Q | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Uptime & Latency SLA | Optional | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| Redundant | Optional | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Auto re-route | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Multiple services on 1 port | No | No | Yes | Yes |
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Use Case:
Linking the most important datacenters in Europe
Whether you need to connect equipment in two redundant datacenters or reach suppliers or partners in sites you don’t have a presence in, most companies have a need for Transport capacity between datacenter facilities.
NL-ix offers Transport capacity services between the close to 100 neutral datacenters where it has a presence, and can use partners to connect other non-datacenter locations to an NL-ix covered datacenter.
We offer different Transport technologies (DWDM, MPLS, VLL and VPLS) in point-to-point and point to multi-point topologies, suitable for all different needs. No sure what you need or want to know more? Please don't hesitate to contact us!