Overview
What is IBM Cloud® Direct Link?
The IBM Cloud Direct Link solution is designed to seamlessly connect your on-premises resources to your cloud resources. The speed and reliability of IBM Cloud Direct Link helps enable you to extend your organization’s data center network and provides consistent, higher-throughput connectivity — without touching the public internet.
IBM Cloud Direct Link provides fast, secure and reliable performance for hybrid workloads (02:10)
How customers use it
Extend and connect resources
Extend and connect resources
Use IBM Cloud Direct Link to connect and extend resource capacity to your existing on-premises data centers.
Store, back up and recover
Store, back up and recover
IBM Cloud Direct Link is ideal for data migration, replication for business continuity and disaster recovery, and to back up or store data from your data center to IBM Cloud.
Connect to other clouds
Connect to other clouds
Use IBM Cloud Direct Link connections from the IBM Cloud directly to a service provider-managed WAN or a client-managed cloud backbone to facilitate multicloud connectivity.
IBM Cloud Direct Link product options
IBM Cloud® Direct Link Dedicated
Terminate a single-tenant cross-connect in our private network.
IBM Cloud® Direct Link Dedicated Hosting on Classic
Connect like Dedicated, with colocation adjacent to our data center.
IBM Cloud® Direct Link Exchange on Classic
Get private IBM Cloud access ideal for multicloud connectivity.
Locations
IBM Cloud Direct Link Connect
IBM Cloud Direct Link Dedicated
IBM Cloud Direct Link Dedicated Hosting on Classic
IBM Cloud Direct Link Exchange on Classic
Benefits
Why IBM Cloud Direct Link
Offers private connectivity options
IBM Cloud Direct Link Dedicated makes it easier to establish a single-cloud fiber cross connection in an IBM Cloud network point of presence (PoP).
Connects to your virtual private cloud
Use the low-latency, highly available connections to reliably transfer data between your on-premises and IBM Cloud virtual private cloud networks.
Provides access to IBM Cloud services
You can directly connect to IBM Cloud services — such as VPC, bare metal compute, VMware and cloud storage — to maximize your existing investments.
Get consistent network performance
See fewer network disruptions and connectivity drops, as traffic between your on-premises and IBM Cloud networks never touches the public internet.
Gain scalable connection capacity
With options from 50 Mbps to 10 Gbps, get the right amount of bandwidth to your organization. Easily provision more connections as capacity is needed.
Take advantage of our global reach
IBM Cloud Direct Link global routing capabilities provide connectivity to regions around the globe from a single IBM Cloud Direct Link connection.
Related products
IBM Cloud Direct Link partners
Connect to the IBM Cloud through industry-leading service providers
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Next steps
Get a highly secure, fast private connection to IBM Cloud for interconnected workloads.