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Managed cloud networking services from BCX Data Networks


Johannesburg, 05 Nov 2021

As enterprises accelerate their digital transformation, major trends such as cloud adoption and the remote workforce drive enterprise network architectures to be cloud-centric. This means that network architectures must be designed with cloud workload migration and end-user access to software-as-a-service over the internet as central requirements.

Cloud-centric networking requires that network professionals must be skilled in cloud networking technologies equally as much as in SD-LAN, SD-WAN, and data centre networking technologies.

Networking components are critical for any cloud infrastructure to facilitate secure and optimised connectivity for communication between resources and end-users. Networking for public, private or hybrid clouds is required for both in-cloud communication between resources and to-cloud between end-users or devices and applications in clouds.

The Data Networks team in BCX has been helping customers for many years to design, deploy, optimise, secure, and manage network infrastructure for enterprise customers who are migrating workloads to public clouds, like Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS), and to service provider hosted clouds, such as in BCX’s own software-defined networking-enabled data centres.

BCX’s in-cloud networking services complement the compute, store and application services provided by BCX’s AWS and MS Azure Centres of Excellence. Our cloud services cover consulting, design, deployment and migration, and managed cloud services. Typical in-cloud network building blocks are Azure Virtual Network or AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) design and deployments, gateways, routing and peering, load balancers, network security groups, perimeter security, and original equipment manufacturers’ cloud appliances.

For to-cloud networking, BCX’s Cloud On-Ramp offer facilitates hybrid and multi-cloud connectivity by connecting enterprises’ end-users to private or hosted data centres and wide area networked branches to public clouds’ private connectivity services. Examples of these are Azure ExpressRoute, AWS Direct Connect, and Oracle Cloud Connect. BCX offers these services in South Africa and through leading global network providers, to clouds across the world.

Although in-cloud networking services can be offered as a solution on its own, it is typically a subset of BCXs cloud solutions portfolio, or an integral part of our software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) solutions, for to-cloud requirements. SD-WANs and Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) architectures that integrate cloud-managed security controls with SD-WAN, are by design cloud-centric. BCX has over 200 network, security, and cloud certified engineers country-wide to design and manage end-to-end secure cloud-centric networking solutions.

For assistance with cloud networking requirements, please contact your BCX account manager or sales representative, or contact us on www.bcx.co.za/solutions/cloud/managed-cloud-networking/


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