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Transforming Financial Connectivity: Introducing Megaport Financial Services Exchange (FSX)

Transforming Financial Connectivity: Introducing Megaport Financial Services Exchange (FSX)

Over the past six years at Megaport, I’ve witnessed a growing desire for change in the Financial Services (FS) industry, particularly regarding application and data mobility within organizations and with third-party partners. Initially, many in FS approached cloud adoption tentatively, waiting until it was fully matured and trusted across the industry. Today, however, the FS sector is one of the largest users of cloud services globally.

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Megaport’s Latest Portal Features and Functionalities

Megaport’s Latest Portal Features and Functionalities

At Megaport, we’re always thinking about how to improve convenience, control, and user experience. And in response to feedback from you, our team is constantly adding and upgrading locations and features.

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Automate Your Network Deployments With The New Megaport Terraform Provider

Automate Your Network Deployments With The New Megaport Terraform Provider

For cloud architects and network engineers, Terraform needs no introduction. Long acclaimed as a leader in the Infrastructure as Code (IaC) space, this tool is often used over vendors’ own automation tools, which tend to be an afterthought for most cloud services.

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Megaport's New Portal Features and Functionalities

Megaport's New Portal Features and Functionalities

Over the past few months, our team has been tirelessly working to enhance your experience and extend the capabilities of the Megaport platform.

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Introducing Megaport Internet

Introducing Megaport Internet

In the ever-evolving digital realm, internet connectivity is the lifeblood of so many business operations. But when it comes to enterprise connectivity, traditional providers can be slow to deploy, providing unreliable connections that are difficult to manage.

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AWS re:Invent 2020 Recap – Announcements and Insights

AWS re:Invent 2020 Recap – Announcements and Insights

If there’s anything 2020 has taught us, it’s that it’s important to adapt to change. With remote working and changes to travel, as well as our interactions with each other at major events now virtual, AWS held nothing back by developing a multi-week jam-packed re:Invent 2020 conference held entirely online.

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AWS re:Invent 2019 Recap – Product Announcements and Insights

AWS re:Invent 2019 Recap – Product Announcements and Insights

With another AWS re:Invent on the books, it’s a great time to recap on how far this conference experience has come, and what it means to us, our customers, and our partners as we close out 2019.

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Bringing the Cloud to the Edge in North America

Bringing the Cloud to the Edge in North America

North America’s fastest growing cities will rely on the cloud to power businesses. Cisco predicts that by 2021, North America will generate the most cloud traffic out of the world’s regions with 7.7 Zettabytes produced. Thinking about the next-generation technologies that have become embedded in the business strategies of today – like Machine Learning, AI, IoT – it’s no wonder cloud computing is top of mind. In addition, hybrid cloud and multicloud are on the rise with businesses tapping into one or more cloud providers to access best-of-breed services that drive their everyday mission-critical workloads and fuel future strategy.

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Azure Berlin, Now Available with Megaport

Azure Berlin, Now Available with Megaport

To say that we’re excited about this is an understatement. Germany has been such an interesting market for us, and we entered it in a relatively dramatic fashion. It was no easy feat building to the Azure German Cloud, as it required us to build and isolate the network to the other Azure cloud regions. It’s the first of its kind within the cloud industry and, in a classic demand-led expansion, Microsoft enabled this in response to their customers requests.

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We’re super excited to officially announce the Megaport Reseller Program!

We’re super excited to officially announce the Megaport Reseller Program!

The Megaport Reseller Partner Program provides partners with extended coverage between data centers and cloud services and delivers a flexible, scalable experience for your end customers. As a Megaport Reseller Partner, you can establish multiple ports and services on behalf of your end customers and manage multiple virtual connections back to any service provider on the fabric.

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API Highlight: Ordering

API Highlight: Ordering

In this post we’ll look at the process for systematically ordering services using the Megaport API. Currently there are four service types which can be ordered, three are widely available and the fourth is limited to partners.

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API Highlight: Introduction

API Highlight: Introduction

Architecture

The software stack was designed to be modular, allowing us to easily add and remove layers while maintaining a consistent customer experience. One of the key points here for the technical team was to add a layer of abstraction between the network equipment and the management software. Initially this means we’re not locked in to a specific vendor but longer term it means that even moving to a new technology like OpenFlow can be achieved by adding a new module at the Agents layer while the rest of the stack remains the same. As can be seen in the stack, the Megaportal and our phone apps are all dependent on the RESTful API to talk to our backend systems. The intention here is that we use the same interface and mechanisms internally that we expose to customers.

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