Not sure about AWS, but if you are a client of Dimension Data cloud, you don't need to do anything. Everything will be taking care off from the provider perspective. Didata will peer with your tier 1/MPLS - acts as CPE...etc I am pretty sure AWS does that for you as well. Else you could spin up a CSR1000v inside the AWS and ask them to connect you.
On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 2:25 PM, George Herbert <[email protected]> wrote: > > If you're asking if one can get a provider's router to handle the outside > physical part of a DC connection... As an ISP service so you don't need > your own router hardware... > > I was working on this for a recent ex client and asked Level 3 exactly > that question. I believe I had the right network guy on the phone and it > was a firm no. > > I was going to check all the other Direct Connect providers but client ran > out of $$. > > If anyone does do that, I would like to know and pass it along to ex > client for their information. > > > George William Herbert > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Mar 1, 2016, at 9:16 AM, "Jay R. Ashworth" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Just got this dropped on my desk an hour ago, and I'm not finding as much > > material online as I might have hoped for... > > > > It looks like the easiest solution is to just hang a router/firewall at > > Equinix Ashburn and AWS-DC to that, and then peer it to carriers both IP > and > > MPLS; is there a "native" way to do that from an AWS VPC instead? > > > > Any public or private replies cheerfully accepted; will summarize what I > > can to the list. > > > > Cheers, > > -- jra > > > > -- > > Jay R. Ashworth Baylink > [email protected] > > Designer The Things I Think > RFC 2100 > > Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land > Rover DII > > St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 > 647 1274 >
