Network Connectivity
Connect your business to a secure, high-speed network that literally never goes down.
Overview
Deft operates our own private IP network, so we know a thing or two about resilient architectures.
By directly connecting into all major cloud services, peering with major networks, and offering countless 100G ports, we scale and optimize for performance, capacity, and reliability.
Our own global backbone interconnects with major networks across geographies, allowing us to route around common issues and offer an unbeatable SLA.
Features
Few companies have hands-on experience owning and operating their own private IP network. But we do.
We’re experts at engineering robust networks. Like, for real.
Cloud Connectivity
- Direct connectivity between your environment, Deft’s Managed VMware Cloud, and all major carriers and hyperscalers like Azure and Google
- Fully redundant cloud connections by default
- Private layer 2 service for direct connections, public layer 3 peering for all cloud and SaaS providers, and redundant blended IP for Internet connectivity
Network Connectivity
- Private global 100-Gbps backbone (soon to be 400 Gbps!)
- Multiple fiber POEs
- Multiple redundant connections to major networks and fiber carriers around the world
- 100% network uptime SLA
Data Transport
- Secure, private point-to-point and point-to-multi-point connections between Deft locations on our 100-Gbps backbone
- Dark Fiber, DWDM wavelengths, L2 ethernet connections between Deft and your location via network partners managed by Deft
- Speeds up to 100 Gbps
Custom Network Services
- Includes design, installation, and management
- Metro Ethernet
- MPLS networks
- Dark fiber
- Local access circuits
- Lit services
- Protected wavelengths
- Managed DWDM
Border Gateway Protocol
- Extensive BGP communities for customer control of traffic
- IRR-based prefix filtering
- RPKI support
- BCP38 filtering
Content Delivery Network capabilities
- Extensive experience in the CDN space
- Close partnership with CacheFly CDN can result in performance and commercial benefits
- Ability to directly solve problems across our network/with partner providers on your behalf
Benefits
We don’t just run the local network for you. We run the ISP behind it.
If something goes wrong, we can react when the ISP won’t. We have more power to keep your network running smoothly than any other provider.
24/7 support from on-site NOC and network engineers
Management by seasoned engineers with advanced networking certifications
All the perks of having a full-time network engineering team without the overhead
100% network uptime SLA for your peace of mind
Network PoPs
Wherever your users are, so are we.
North America
- Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- Ashburn, Virginia, USA
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Denver, Colorado, USA
- Elk Grove Village, Illinois, USA
- San Jose, California, USA
- Seattle, Washington, USA
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Amsterdam, Netherlands 📄
- Bucharest, Romania
- Frankfurt, Germany
- London, United Kingdom
- São Paulo, Brazil
FAQs
Find answers to frequently asked questions about Deft’s Network Services.
Can you manage my network gear?
Absolutely. We can manage your firewalls, load balancers, switches, and routers. We can also migrate your network equipment if you’d like us to.
How much bandwidth do I need?
It’s hard to know how much bandwidth you need without knowing what your business needs to be successful. A good place to start is by identifying all mission-critical applications and processes that rely on the internet or moving data between two or more locations. What couldn’t your employees do their jobs without?
When you’ve defined what your employees need to be able to accomplish over your internet connection, it’s time to consider which type of connection might best meet their needs. If, for example, your business offers digital trading, low latency is going to be a high priority. This means you may want a direct fiber connection.
If you’re in healthcare or payments, privacy and security matter. This means you might want certain functions handled via an in-house data center or private cloud.
If uptime is your biggest concern, you’ll want fully redundant connections because, at some point, a serious storm or construction project will take down your primary connection.
To use a car analogy, there are many ways to get from point A to point B, but only you can determine if you need a Ferrari or a Kia Rio. Just as different cars boast different features (safety, speed, fuel efficiency, etc.), different businesses have different data needs. Notably, these go beyond simple measures of data volume.
Why is Deft so good at networking?
We build new customer networks weekly, which is something that a person working for an enterprise might do 1 or 2 times ever. So we’re objectively better at it.
Tool
Peek inside Deft’s network.
Use our Looking Glass tool to run a limited set of commands (bgp, ping, trace) directly on different routers to explore routing information and verify reachability.
