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Google has launched Interconnect Dedicated, a new service which aims to help organisations establish a private network connection direct to its cloud.<\/p>\n
The service differs from its previous interconnect operation – now called Carrier Peering – with the direct link, while it differs from Google Cloud VPN, which securely connects on-premises networks to the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) virtual private cloud (VPC) network, through having a minimum deployment per location of 10 Gbps in bandwidth.<\/p>\n
Interconnect Dedicated offers up to 80 Gbps – eight times the 10 Gbps increments, or in other words, selecting one to eight circuits from Google’s Cloud Console – and is available in up to 17 locations across four continents.<\/p>\n
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In the documentation<\/a>, Google describes four benefits of Interconnect Dedicated, including the scalability factor. The company adds the cost of egress traffic from the VPC network to the on-premises network will be reduced – a dedicated connection is ‘generally’ the least expensive method with a high volume of traffic to and from Google’s network – while internal IP addresses are directly accessible from the on-premises network and there are less points of failure where traffic might get disrupted.<\/p>\n As is usually the case, a customer gets wheeled out to note the benefits of the product; in this case, it is real-time analytics firm Metamarkets. “Accessing GCP with high bandwidth, low latency, and consistent network connectivity is critical for our business objectives,” said Nhan Phan, Metamarkets VP engineering in a statement. “Google’s Dedicated Interconnect allows us to successfully achieve higher reliability, higher throughput and lower latency while reducing the total cost of ownership by more than 60%, compared to solutions over the public internet.”<\/p>\n Google’s cloud announcements have been coming at pace of late. Two weeks ago, the company unveiled variable networking tiers<\/a>, claimed at the time to be the first from a major public cloud provider. According to Google’s most recent financial results, the company tripled the number<\/a> of its big cloud deals, rated at $500,000 or more.<\/p>\n