Cisco and Megaport Simplify Cloud Networking with Pay-As-You-Go Mannequin

February 9, 2024

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Within the ever-evolving world of digital connectivity, Cisco continues to pave the way in which with revolutionary options not simply centered round technological advances, but additionally round how these advances can simply be consumed by prospects. During the last three years, Cisco and Megaport have collaborated deeply by:

Integrating Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN with Megaport world community connectivity providers (Megaport Digital Edge and Megaport Digital Cross Connects)
Delivering a single vendor consumption mannequin for patrons to buy Megaport providers by way of Cisco (obtainable since September 2021 on Cisco International Value Checklist)

Cisco’s Pay-as-You-Go Initiative

Right this moment, we’re joyful to announce that Cisco and Megaport are extending their partnership by introducing a pay-as-you-go (PAYG) provide for Megaport Digital Edge, Digital Cross Connects, and Ports by way of Cisco’s International Value Checklist. As a substitute for the prevailing term-based provide, Cisco’s pay-as-you-go provide offers companies with unprecedented flexibility, scalability, and a cloud-like consumption mannequin for Megaport underlay providers.

Cisco’s PAYG provide for Megaport providers is a dynamic method to community useful resource administration. It’s designed to make sure companies solely pay for the infrastructure assets they make the most of, offering an environment friendly and economical resolution. This mannequin signifies a shift from the normal, static community infrastructure to a extra dynamic, versatile, and cost-effective different. The pay-as-you-go provide might be obtainable in March 2024 and might be built-in with Megaport Digital Edge, Megaport Digital Cross Connects, and Megaport Ports.

Each consumption fashions give prospects a single vendor expertise for his or her world connectivity necessities by way of Catalyst SD-WAN Supervisor, permitting them to deliver up community infrastructure to create world huge space networks, hook up with a number of cloud environments, and setup simple knowledge restoration methods in a matter of minutes. There’s no want for patrons to cope with a number of distributors, handle numerous contracts, or navigate a number of portals.

We’re excited to develop our partnership with Cisco. Megaport was the primary to combine its middle-mile connectivity with Cisco’s Catalyst SD-WAN. Enabling the brand new pay-as-you-go consumption mannequin with Cisco offers prospects with even better flexibility.

– Matt Simpson, Govt Vice President Enterprise Improvement, Megaport

Key Advantages of Cisco’s PAYG for Megaport Providers

At the moment adopted by all kinds of enterprise verticals (healthcare, tech, world IT providers, monetary providers, and public sectors), middle-mile optimization with Catalyst SD-WAN and Megaport, permits companies to appreciate a spread of advantages.

illustration of Megaport's cloud to cloud connectivity

Flexibility and scalability: The PAYG provide permits for dynamic scaling of community connectivity, thus making a cloud-like consumption mannequin for site-to-cloud, site-to-site, and cloud-to-cloud connectivity necessities. This flexibility is essential in as we speak’s ever-changing enterprise setting, the place adaptability, agility, and ease of use are key determinants of success.
Value-effectiveness: Organizations can handle their community assets primarily based on their particular necessities and solely pay for the assets they devour. With a $0 upfront dedication and a single billing and help platform, Cisco goals to scale back the multi-vendor requisite prospects should cope with for his or her world networking infrastructure wants.
Safe and dependable: By leveraging Megaport’s strong world platform with a 99.999% SLA, companies can get pleasure from seamless, safe connections to an enormous community of service suppliers (knowledge facilities, public clouds, and SaaS) in a colocation-agnostic method, whereas Catalyst SD-WAN ensures end-to-end encryption for knowledge at relaxation and knowledge in transit.
International WAN: Megaport’s in depth world footprint permits companies to deploy Megaport Digital Edge internet hosting the Catalyst 8000V in 70+ metros throughout the globe, giving customers entry to Megaport’s spine in an information heart agnostic method. Multi-national enterprises have deployed resilient and responsive world WANs in a fashion of minutes utilizing Catalyst SD-WAN and Megaport underlays, thus empowering them to put off their legacy networks, long run contracts, and the insecurities of utilizing public web providers. This world attain, mixed with Cisco’s Catalyst SD-WAN, allows organizations to create a really borderless and responsive community infrastructure.

Illustration of Megaport's Global Connectivity

Cisco’s launch of the pay-as-you-go provide for Megaport providers delivers unparalleled flexibility, scalability, and cost-efficiency to organizations trying to modernize their world community infrastructure whereas remodeling to a cloud-first setting by offering a community that mimics the identical.