Megaport, Zenlayer join forces to expand global network connectivity
Megaport, a network as a service provider and Zenlayer, an edge cloud service provider, have announced a strategic partnership to extend their global reach to more than 800 locations on six continents to their mutual customers.
Under the new partnership, Megaport customers can take advantage of Zenlayer’s extensive infrastructure in emerging markets like Southeast Asia, China, India and South America, as well as its expertise in fast-growing regions. At the same time, businesses using Zenlayer’s platform will access Megaport’s extensive cloud on-ramps and data centers.
“Megaport’s strategic partnership with Zenlayer makes it easier than ever for our customers to use on-demand private connectivity to power their cloud networking anywhere in the world,” explained Vincent English, CEO at Megaport. “Whether they’re deploying hybrid and/or multi-cloud or bridging SD-WAN to the cloud, Megaport customers can now securely connect mission-critical IT services in new markets, including those in Southeast Asia and South America, by using a combination of our NaaS solutions and Zenlayer’s Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offerings.”
According to the companies, this collaboration would give customers “improved network performance with reduced jitter and latency, as well as reduced cloud egress costs.” Joe Zhu, the Chief Executive Officer and Founder at Zenlayer, added that the combined networks would make “one of the largest SDNs in the world.”
Other stated benefits of the collaboration include the following:
- Simple to connect branch locations, data centers, cloud providers and IT services without hardware
- Provisioning of virtual network infrastructure and interconnections in real-time
- Private, secure hybrid cloud and multi-cloud connections to over 800 data centers via Megaport’s and Zenlayer’s combined coverage
- Private, on-demand connectivity to leading clouds like AWS, Alibaba Cloud, Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud and Salesforce
As part of the partnership, customers will also be able to take advantage of Megaport’s and Zenlayer’s full suite of enterprise services, including Cloud Router, Virtual Edge, Bare Metal Cloud, and Global Accelerator.
“Adding Megaport’s extensive integration with cloud on-ramps and vast data center reach to Zenlayer’s global network gives our customers greater choice in on-demand private connectivity to innovative and scalable IaaS solutions required by today’s digital-leading companies,” concluded Zhu.
Zenlayer recently also partnered with the Indonesian company Telin to create a digital connectivity platform that would offer on-demand subsea cable services. Prior to that, Zenlayer also collaborated with Hut 8, a digital asset mining and computing infrastructure provider, to provide edge computing services to blockchain, Web 3.0 and enterprise customers.
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cloud networking | IaaS | interconnection | Megaport | NaaS | SDN | Zenlayer
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