Cloud Connect

Make a physical connection to Elastx

General

Cloud Connect is a service for customers to make a physical connection to Elastx public cloud.

Locations

The service is offered in our availability zones:

  • Elastx STO1
  • Elastx STO2
  • Elastx STO3

Customers can also connect at “Private Peering Facilities” locations on PeeringDB.

Media

The service only allows fiber-based connections. The following physical media is supported. Customer needs to specify which media they want to connect with.

10G ports:

  • 1000BASE-LX (1310 nm)
  • 10GBASE-LR (1310 nm)

100G ports:

  • 100GBASE-LR4 (1310 nm)

Data Plane Protocols

  • MTU 1500 is default. This can be increased to MTU 9000.
  • VLAN encapsulation (IEEE 802.1Q) is recommended. All (1-4093) VLAN numbers are available.
  • Link Aggregation Control Protocol (IEEE 802.3ad) is supported.

Control Plane Procotols

  • Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is recommended.

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)

Elastx currently supports IPv4 Address Family (AFI 1) Unicast (SAFI 1).

Private peering

Customer can advertise any network, including 0/0 for default routing. Elastx needs to informed of the networks prior to advertisement.

Any AS numbers within 64512–65534, 4200000000–4294967294 (RFC 6996) can be used. With the exception of reservation 4258252000-4258252999.

Public AS numbers can be approved after ownership verification.

Public peering

Customer can only advertise networks assigned by Elastx. AS numbers are assigned by Elastx.

Public AS numbers can be approved after ownership verification.

Last modified April 22, 2024: added useful options (#171) (7e11b10)