VXC

Visualising Megaport’s Network

• Cloud

What do you guys do again? Here at Megaport, we offer customers several layer 2 network services on top of our layer 1 network. The physical network can be thought of as a set of points with connections between them, and is ultimately represented in a database structure something like this (representing a ring network of three locations): The physical network is (eye-wateringly) expensive and because of that is it relatively static over time. When our customers buy services they are effectively constructing their own virtual networks on top of ours, and this is much more dynamic, complex, and well, interesting. A table of data might be completely accurate but it is not very visually appealing, so what to do about that? When I hear ‘network’ I naturally think ‘graph’ and how I can visualise the data…