APN Partners supporting AWS Direct Connect

The AWS Partner* Network (APN) is a global program that provides partners with the technical information and sales and marketing support they need to accelerate their business on AWS. The APN Technology and Consulting Partners (formerly called AWS Direct Connect Solution Providers) listed on this page can assist you in using the AWS Direct Connect service by helping you establish network circuits between an AWS Direct Connect location and your datacenter, office, or colocation environment, or assist you in constructing a hybrid environment.


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AAPT
Atlantic Metro Communications
Bestel
CFN Services
Cinenet
CoreSite
Datapipe
DBR360
Exponential-e Ltd.
Equinix, Inc.
FiberLight
Fiber Internet Center
First Communications
Global Capacity
Global Telecom & Technology, Inc. (GTT)
Hibernia Atlantic
InterCloud
IX Reach
KVH Co., Ltd.
Level 3 Communications, Inc.
Nomura Research Institute (NRI)
NTT Communications Corporation
Smart421
Softbank Telecom Corp.
Splice Communications
TelecityGroup
Telx
tw telecom
Venus
Zayo Group

AAPT


AAPT is one of Australia's leading telecommunications infrastructure companies, offering data, voice, cloud, internet and mobile services for business, government and wholesale customers, via its extensive national network. It is 100% owned by Telecom Corporation of New Zealand, which is listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. AAPT is one of only three Australian telecommunications companies to own and operate a national voice and data network, it has one of Australia’s most extensive and highest-quality IP networks, as well as delivering high speed MEF certified Ethernet services across Australia.

AAPT is a business telecommunications infrastructure company that strives to deliver extreme performance across every level of the organisation. Its dedicated focus is on creating partnerships with its business customers unmatched by its competitors. For more information, visit AAPT.

Atlantic Metro Communications


Atlantic Metro is a Managed Infrastructure Service Provider delivering innovative IT solutions to businesses nationwide. Our comprehensive solutions include cloud computing, nationwide network connectivity, and secure data centers. Atlantic Metro’s suite of customized, affordable, and reliable services enables customers to secure mission-critical data and operations, as well as complement their current IT infrastructure. Reduced time to market and rapid implementation of services maximizes operating efficiency, getting customers up and running quickly. Our customers, including Fortune 500 enterprises, legal firms, web start-ups, media, and advertising agencies choose Atlantic Metro for the confidence that comes with customer-focused infrastructure solutions, support systems, and scalability.

Atlantic Metro’s CloudDirect services enable customers using Amazon Web Services (AWS) and AWS Direct Connect to establish secure and reliable connectivity from any of its Internet Data Centers, Network POPs, and locations with Metro Ethernet connectivity. Businesses previously sending data over the public Internet will now have the ability to directly connect to their Amazon Web Services via a private network connection. Customers utilizing Atlantic Metro CloudDirect will benefit from increased levels of security, consistent network performance, and reduced costs for data transfer, as well as noticeable improvement in application performance.

For more information, please visit www.atlanticmetro.net/clouddirect or contact Stephen Klenert, Chief Strategy Officer at sklenert@atlanticmetro.net.

Bestel


Bestel is a telecommunications operator and information technologies company with more than 15 years of experience offering advanced solutions through one of the largest optical fiber networks in Mexico.

The Bestel network has a current longitude in excess of 25,000 kilometers and has an installed capacity of 100 Gbps redundant connections to the Internet. Bestel manages the largest network of private telepresence suites in the world and offers communication to one of the largest overall telepresence networks. It is the country's leader provider of telecommunication services for cable operators, health, media and entertainment, government and education sectors, and the first operator to offer integrated security services.

With the new Cloud solutions, Bestel is able to help customers to connect their corporate IT infrastructure directly to Amazon Web Services through a private and high bandwidth solution, wherever your corporate IT is located in Mexico.

By bypassing the public Internet, your access to Cloud Infrastructure can improve in performance, availability, cost reduction and security increase. With this solution you can extend your corporate IT infrastructure into the cloud, improving flexibility and economics of AWS via a secure and private network with Corporate Service Levels.

Since 2007, Bestel is a member of Grupo Televisa. Televisa has more than 2 million clients of paid TV content and more than 50,000 miles of optical fiber and wiring throughout Mexico. The incorporation of Bestel to Grupo Televisa allows the company to strengthen its telecommunications operations, as well as to add paramount growth plans. For more information, please visit http://www.bestel.com or contact ventascloud@bestel.com.mx

CFN Services


CFN Services provides high-performance network and application delivery solutions for real-time, mission-critical applications. Leveraging FiberSource®, CFN’s global network optimization platform, the company deploys and manages low-latency networks and private cloud solutions to cost-effectively improve application performance in distributed IT environments. CFN’s global cloud platform provides dedicated connectivity to more than 70 leading datacenters across North and South America, Europe and Asia.

CoreSite


CoreSite Realty Corporation (NYSE: COR) is a national provider of powerful, network-rich data centers, efficient interconnection services, and global peering opportunities. More than 700 customers such as Global 1000 enterprises, communications providers, cloud and content companies, financial firms, media and entertainment, healthcare, and Government agencies trust CoreSite to power, cool, connect, and secure their mission-critical IT assets.

CoreSite data centers are catalysts for network growth, featuring established industry ecosystems with access to 200+ carriers and service providers resulting in more than 12,000 interconnections under management. The company tailors its data center product to unique customer requirements by way of a flexible offering that includes cage-to-cabinet colocation, private data centers and suites, and a responsive customer service and support infrastructure. CoreSite's portfolio comprises more than two million square feet, including space held for redevelopment and development, across 12 data centers in seven key U.S. economic centers. For more information, visit www.CoreSite.com.

Datapipe


Datapipe offers a single provider solution for managing and securing mission-critical IT services, including cloud computing, infrastructure as a service, platform as a service, colocation and data centers. Datapipe delivers those services from the world's most influential technical and financial markets including New York metro, Northern Virginia, Silicon Valley, London, Hong Kong and Shanghai.

Datapipe's AWS Direct Connect Enabled Services deliver high performance, highly available, database clusters (Oracle, SQL, MySQL) to meet the demands of real-time Enterprise production workloads.The high speed, low latency direct connect allows AWS instances to communicate with high I/O solutions hosted in Datapipe's data centers - ideal for transactional systems, real-time applications and high performance databases. This service also enables offsite data backup and disaster recovery solutions, ensuring that data exists in multiple locations with multiple providers. Datapipe manages all aspects of AWS Direct Connect Hybrid Environments, including provisioning, monitoring, management and billing.

To learn more, please contact Bill Dolan, VP, Business Development at 201.792.1918 x2227 or at bdolan@datapipe.com.

DBR360


DBR360 delivers advanced global telecommunications network solutions for enterprises, carriers and service providers. Partnering with customers, DBR360 leverages its Network as a Service (NaaS) approach to optimize existing network infrastructure to achieve business objectives. We simplify digital delivery of data by coordinating disparate service providers and technologies required for maximum impact. We provide end-to-end service and vendor management, with complete transparency, flexibility and visibility. DBR360 dramatically shortens digital workflows, ensures cloud continuity and delivers superior customer experience.

Exponential-e Ltd.


Founded in 2002, Exponential-e is one of the few technology enablers with a Layer 2, Virtual Private LAN Service, (VPLS) network. The business-only network is used to deliver managed services including cloud, connectivity and unified communications for over 1200 blue chip corporate clients and channel partners from industries including Media, Technology, Finance, Public Sector, Insurance, Leisure and Professional Services.

As one of the UK’s most innovative technology companies, Exponential-e designed the first ever VPLS network in Europe and brought to market the first wired internet traffic management application. Its powerful 100GigE next generation infrastructure reaches over 40 data centres and thousands of on-net locations, meaning that once connected, customers gain access to their own private cloud of business services.

Visit: www.exponential-e.com, follow: @exponential_e. For more information on our AWS Direct Connect solutions, please visit: http://www.exponential-e.com/aws

Equinix, Inc.


Equinix, Inc. connects businesses with partners and customers around the world through a global platform of high performance data centers, containing dynamic ecosystems and the broadest choice of networks. Platform Equinix connects more than 4,000 enterprises, cloud, digital content and financial companies including more than 675 network service providers to help them grow their businesses, improve application performance and protect their vital digital assets. Equinix operates in 38 strategic markets across the Americas, EMEA and Asia-Pacific and continually invests in expanding its platform to power customer growth.

FiberLight


FiberLight is a leading optical transport company providing Ethernet connectivity over its wholly owned $1 billion diversely constructed fiber network covering growing metros in the South, Southwest and Mid-Atlantic regions. Companies seeking mission critical, high performance network services including Ethernet, Wavelengths, Dedicated IP, SONET and Dark Fiber turn to FiberLight for customized solutions. FiberLight delivers scalability, low latency, redundancy, limitless bandwidth and secure transport to major commercial hubs, data centers, collocations, LANs, WANs, and cloud-enabled services. To learn more about the FiberLight solution visit www.fiberlight.com.

Fiber Internet Center


Fiber Internet Center, network focused since 2001. From 5 Meg to 1 Gigabit, a single fiber circuit saves money for both Internet and AWS access. We provide connectivity to AWS via AWS Direct Connect with QOS priority above your office Internet traffic. Few companies have been providing fiber services as long as Fiber Internet Center. Other networks have a large learning curve to over come before providing the level of proactive management that Fiber Internet Center provides. ISPs, VOIP providers and enterprise customers leverage Fiber Internet Center's network as their own. Your's should too.

First Communications


First Communications offers high-capacity long-haul and metro fiber network services as well as voice and data services across the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic U.S. The company’s fiber network includes 5,600 fiber route miles, 250,000 fiber miles and more than 600 on-net wire centers. Its diverse, low-latency fiber network includes approximately 500 metro route miles reaching more than 50 Tier 1, 2 and 3 markets. As a result, a growing list of carrier and wholesale customers as well as large enterprises, financial organizations, schools, universities, health care providers and state and local governments rely on First Communications’ transport and Custom Private Network services to run critical business applications and transfer highly secure and confidential data.

Global Capacity


Global Capacity is a telecommunications information and logistics company that improves the efficiency and reduces the cost of procuring access networks globally. Global Capacity’s One Marketplace is an automated platform, purpose-built to simplify the buying of access network solutions. The platform delivers automated, real-time quoting, pricing, ordering and provisioning of private line and Ethernet access services via an online user portal. One Marketplace not only provides companies access network quotes in a matter of seconds, it provides transparency into pricing and visibility into available capacity across multiple vendors and geographies. One Marketplace provides a single SLA, single contract, single point of contact and full network visibility and management from one company.

Global Telecom & Technology, Inc. (GTT)


GTT is a global network services provider delivering innovative network solutions to enterprise, government and carrier customers in over 80 countries worldwide. Our Network as a Service philosophy enables AWS customers to acquire customized network infrastructure capable of both public and secure private networking, by leveraging our own network assets and those of our partners. GTT simplifies the network deployment process removing the complexity of multi-vendor solutions, providing end-to-end solution management with the cost efficiencies of a single partner.

Hibernia Atlantic


Hibernia Atlantic operates a global network connecting North America, Europe and Asia with its own private submarine cables and terrestrial network between the United States, Canada and Europe. Hibernia offers multiple redundant network Points of Presence (PoPs) on over 24,000 kilometers of fiber. Hibernia provides secure and diverse dedicated Ethernet and optical-level service up to GigE, 10G and LanPhy wavelengths and traditional SONET/SDH services. In addition, Hibernia offers wholesale capacity prices, unparalleled support, flexibility and service.

For more information please contact Chris Kelly at 415.971.8447 or Chris.Kelly@HiberniaAtlantic.com. You may also reach Sales directly at 908.988.1988 or Sales@HiberniaAtlantic.com.
www.HiberniaAtlantic.com

InterCloud


InterCloud is a Cloud Access Operator, specialized in Cloud Computing connectivity. InterCloud offers companies a fully secured and enhanced performance access to any outsourced application platforms – through the implementation of a private network infrastructure – to address the key issues of Cloud users, namely performance and security.

InterCloud provides the Direct Connect service to AWS from major cities in Europe, connecting seamlessly AWS services to your WAN or data, with bandwidths ranging from 10 Mbps up to 10Gbps. For more information, visit www.intercloud.fr.

IX Reach


IX Reach provides the Direct Connect service to AWS from 61+ major carrier-neutral data centers from its core network across 29+ major cities in Europe and North America to your private office or data center in any country served by its network to the AWS Cloud. IX Reach has all the convenience of one simple solution providing bespoke solutions by offering flexible bandwidths tailored to your needs ranging from 100Mbps up to multiple 10GE, point-to-point and point-to-multipoint connections with fractional speeds available, VLANs, VPNs, wavelengths and business IP.

IX Reach is a leading provider of connectivity and colocation services specializing in partnerships with content providers, Internet Exchanges and colocation providers in key locations internationally. For more information and a full list of services IX Reach provide, visit www.ixreach.com or call +44 845 013 0845.

KVH Co., Ltd.


We own infrastructure and provide services that enable clients to store, process, protect and deliver their vital business information. These include standalone and , Data Center Services, Managed Services, Ethernet, IP, Voice Services and Professional Services.

Level 3 Communications, Inc.


Level 3 Communications is a premier global provider of state-of-the-art data, voice, video and managed solutions, serving enterprise, content, government and wholesale customers.

With our highly reliable and secure network, we enable stronger connections around the globe by delivering integrated IP solutions that address customers’ needs for scalability, flexibility and efficiency. Leveraging our expansive metro footprint and global reach, our team of dedicated people exemplifies our commitment to partnership. We focus on understanding customers’ business challenges, building relevant worldwide network solutions, and delivering a seamless, industry-leading customer experience

Nomura Research Institute (NRI)


NRI was born from the merger of the former Nomura Research Institute, Japan’s first think tank in the private sector, with Nomura Computer Systems Co., the pioneer in systems integration. The DNA inherited from our predecessors has been integrated in NRI and is at work in its business activities that are one step ahead of the times-manifested in our ability to create a vision of the future and put proposals forward to the society at large and its commitment to quality perceived from a client standpoint.

In the systems construction to utilize the cloud services of Amazon Web Services, NRI provide advanced solution by taking advantage of the experience of the systems development in the sectors of finance and distribution for many years. We propose the most suitable system for a user company after having ascertained characteristics of the public cloud computing service. Furthermore, from systems development to management of service operation, we provide a total solution of high quality.

For more information, visit http://www.nri.co.jp/ (in Japanese) or http://www.nri.co.jp/english/ (in English)

NTT Communications Corporation


NTT Communications provides a broad range of global networks, management solutions and IT services to customers worldwide. The company is renowned for reliable, high-quality security; hosting, voice, data and IP services; expertise in managed networks; and leadership in IPv6 transit technology. Our extensive infrastructure includes Arcstar Global IP-VPN Service, Global e-VLAN, a Tier-1 IP backbone reaching more than 150 countries in partnership with major Internet service providers, and secure data centers in Asia, North America and Europe.

Smart421


Smart421 – part of the KCOM Group plc - delivers high-end consultancy, integration and management of business-critical systems for large enterprises. It provides onshore IT services for complex and bespoke projects on-premise and in the Cloud. The company is best known for its work with financial institutions, telcos, energy utilities, transportation, media and retail. The company is an AWS Solution Provider and an AWS Direct Connect Solution Provider. Among its recent engagements, Smart421 has been architecting delivering solutions for major UK enterprises including a power utility, a mobile telco and a UK retail bank. For a complimentary 45-minute introduction at your offices or via conference call, please email us today at cloud@smart421.com.

Softbank Telecom Corp.


SOFTBANK TELECOM offers high-quality and stable communication service with over a 20-year history. We aim to bring comprehensive solutions to our customers to create new work styles and lifestyles in collaboration with our Group companies.

Utilization of ICT (Information and Communication Technology) is becoming an even more important factor for companies to enhance their market competitiveness. ICT is evolving from a mere tool for cost reduction and efficiency to solutions of various management issues in a sophisticating business environment. Taking advantage of synergies with communications companies of the SOFTBANK Group such as SOFTBANK MOBILE and SOFTBANK BB, SOFTBAK TELECOM offers customer-oriented innovative services to corporate customers through establishment of a full-fledged mobile Internet environment and promotion of FMC (Fixed Mobile Convergence).

Splice Communications


Splice Communications is an APN Technology Partner supporting AWS Direct Connect specializing in connecting your infrastructure to the AWS cloud. If you are a new AWS user, an existing user currently accessing AWS through the Internet and need more bandwidth or, if you want to bypass the Internet via a private line connection including; 10Mbs - 10Gbps Ethernet, MPLS, DWDM and dark fiber, then contact Splice. With over 90,000 on-net buildings, extensive relationships with domestic and international telecom carriers and a knowledgeable, friendly staff, Splice can design and deliver a data networking solution customized to your specific technical and business requirements. We manage the entire process from ordering and installation to network monitoring and trouble resolution. Our customers benefit from a single point of contact, a single bill, superior service and a lower total cost of ownership. Please contact us to provide a quote for your connectivity requirements or to discuss your networking needs.

TelecityGroup


TelecityGroup is Europe's industry-leading provider of carrier-neutral data centres. TelecityGroup specialises in the design, build and management of highly connected, resilient and secure environments in which customers can house their telecoms, internet and IT infrastructure. Headquartered in London, TelecityGroup’s data centres are located in the key European connectivity hubs.

A TelecityGroup data centre is a thriving, connected, digital ecosystem providing direct access to a wide choice of telecoms and content distribution networks, key internet exchange points, and cloud hubs, all of which facilitate the sharing, distribution and storage of data, content, applications and media. TelecityGroup is listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE: TCY)

Telx


Telx is your strategic partner for global interconnectivity, cloud enablement and data center solutions. Our strategically located, network-neutral interconnection and colocation facilities provide cost-effective, reliable and secure access to an ecosystem of 1,000+ telecommunications carriers, ISPs, content providers, enterprises and more. Within this ecosystem we help businesses connect to well-established communities of interest.

tw telecom


tw telecom is a leading provider of managed Ethernet services and enables customers to connect to their cloud environments across town or across the country. Our Ethernet platform provides resilient, highly scalable solutions for customers looking for connection speeds from 1Meg to 10Gigs. tw telecom can quickly scale these connections to support customers changing connectivity needs, allowing them to deploy new environments in hours versus weeks.

tw telecom has been a leader in delivering managed services, including Ethernet, IP VPN and Converged solutions for years. With direct connections to more than 14,300 commercial buildings and 300+ data centers, tw telecom bridges the gap between customer locations and the content and IT infrastructure they need to run their business. With so many fiber connections to customers, tw telecom delivers 10Gig capable, low-latency infrastructure that meets any cloud connectivity requirement. In addition, tw telecom has over 750,000 businesses within easy reach of our network. tw telecom can provide an end-to-end solution to any business.

For more information, visit www.twtelecom.com

Venus


Venus is now recognised as London’s fastest growing network with Points of presence throughout the Capital. The Venus Dark Fibre Network provides high speed leased line communication for Media and Professional Services businesses and other bandwidth-hungry business users. Our services start with London's lowest cost Fibre Internet Leased Line. Venus serves hundreds of business customers across London and the UK with FREE installation available from any of points of network presence in central London and the city.

We provide wholesale leased line services to IT companies and Telco’s as well as offering competitively priced connections directly to businesses. Venus implements private Ethernet networks for business customers. Our network reaches major data centres giving access to national infrastructure.

For more information visit www.venus.co.uk or call +44 20 7240 5858

For specific information on Venus AWS solutions: www.venus.co.uk/aws

Zayo Group


Zayo provides high bandwidth connectivity solutions for enterprise and carrier customers. Its private optical network delivers key network and IP services in and among the top U.S. and European markets. AWS customers can leverage Zayo's established worldwide network which includes 4.5 million fiber miles and connections to more than 450 datacenters and 10,000 buildings to access to the AWS cloud.

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