Cloud Connect

Cloud Connect from Spectrum Business® provides dependable and private connectivity to your cloud service providers (CSPs). Improving the interaction between your organization and public or hybrid clouds, Cloud Connect offers a high-performing, secure fiber connection, allowing you to confidently access cloud-based compute, storage and applications from any location on your WAN.

Using public internet access to connect to CSP environments reduces reliability, adds security vulnerabilities, introduces delays and adds complexity. Cloud Connect provides any organization with the premium, end-to-end network performance required to fully benefit from today’s cloud services, helping to ensure speed, reliability and security. Cloud Connect can access the largest CSPs from a variety of peering locations across the U.S.

Product highlights

• Improve performance: Access to public clouds is faster and more consistent with high-performance, service-level agreement (SLA)-backed, dedicated bandwidth.
• Reduce risk: Private connectivity protects against disruptive intrusions and malicious attacks.
• Simplify cloud connectivity: Easily link multiple cloud environments to any network resource.

Key features

• Secure connection to AWS, Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud and Google Cloud Platform environments.
• Dedicated bandwidth with scalable access speeds available from 50 Mbps up to 10 Gbps.
• A powerful direct network connection to the CSP gateway point including a 100% service availability SLA.
• Multiple connectivity options are available to meet specific business needs.
   

Available services

• Ethernet Services: Meet ever-growing data needs by connecting locations with a fast, reliable WAN solution backed by a 100% uptime SLA guarantee and built on a dedicated fiber infrastructure. Bandwidth up to 100 Gbps is available.
• Enterprise Network Edge: Improve the network experience for your teams with an enterprise-grade managed solution that brings together connectivity, equipment and network management to support hybrid networks and workforces. Powered by Fortinet, the solution simplifies IT operations by providing networking with security features and optional integrated WiFi and switching in a multi-cloud-ready platform.
• Managed Network Edge: Simplify the deployment and management of your network with this modular, all-in-one solution. Delivered over the Cisco Meraki platform, Managed Network Edge offers security features, routing, SD-WAN, WiFi, switching, smart cameras, and environmental sensors. Achieve flexibility and scalability with connectivity, equipment and network management from a single partner.
• Dedicated Fiber Internet: Access dedicated, high-speed, scalable, nationwide internet connectivity, with symmetrical upload and download speeds and bandwidth up to 100 Gbps. The service is backed by a 100% uptime SLA all the way to the handoff point at your location.
• Enterprise Internet: Gain fast, reliable and cost-effective access to the internet or cloud-based applications with an enterprise-grade experience. Available in a range of speeds up to 1 Gbps, the solution provides peace of mind with an SLA that includes 99.9% uptime and a rapid restoration commitment all the way to the handoff point at your location.
• Managed cloud security: Help keep sensitive data and applications secure with our proven managed cloud security solutions. We offer integrated, comprehensive managed protection solutions for networks, users and workflows, regardless of location.
• Unified communications: Answer communication and collaboration needs with a fully managed, cloud-based voice solution that brings together calling, messaging, meetings, virtual workspaces and more in a single application that delivers a unified experience for today’s mobile, on-the-go workforce.
   

Learn more
enterprise.spectrum.com/cloud-connect