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Organizations searching for a software solution to get private network connection to IBM Cloud

About IBM Cloud Direct Link

The IBM Cloud Direct Link solution is designed to seamlessly connect your on-premises resources to your cloud resources. The speed and reliability of IBM Cloud Direct Link helps enable you to extend your organization’s data center network and provides consistent, higher-throughput connectivity, without touching the public internet. Use IBM Cloud Direct Link to connect and extend resource capacity to your existing on-premises data centers. IBM Cloud Direct Link Dedicated makes it easier to establish a single-cloud fiber cross-connection in an IBM Cloud network point of presence (PoP). Use the low-latency, highly available connections to reliably transfer data between your on-premises and IBM Cloud virtual private cloud networks. See fewer network disruptions and connectivity drops, as traffic between your on-premises and IBM Cloud networks never touches the public internet. With options from 50 Mbps to 10 Gbps, get the right amount of bandwidth to your organization.

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IBM
Founded: 1911
United States
www.ibm.com/cloud/direct-link

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