Cloud Bespoke
Cloud connectivity tailored to your needs
Create private connectivity in just a few clicks to securely link data centers and corporate offices to private and public clouds.
Just as a bespoke suit is crafted by listening to the wearer’s needs and taking precise measurements, Cloud Bespoke combines the most suitable components to build private connectivity aligned with your infrastructure, goals, and cloud evolution journey, ensuring a perfect fit without constraints or weak points.
The cloud is no longer an isolated environment; applications, data, and services can be distributed across corporate infrastructure, data centers, and multiple cloud providers. However, as architecture grows, so does network complexity. Cloud Bespoke was created to simplify this.
Together with Megaport, Professional Link integrates connectivity services and software-defined networking. By creating private links between businesses and Cloud Service Providers, organizations are able to build more flexible architectures while ensuring data security, routing, and network capacity are managed.
Cloud Bespoke It’s not a one-size-fits-all solution for cloud connectivity, it’s the right one for your company.
A single solution for multiple technologies: Cloud Bespoke
Cloud Bespoke combines components from the Megaport platform and Professional Link based on the client’s architecture and specific needs.
PLINK Super Cloud (PSC)
PLINK Super Cloud is a connectivity platform for businesses that provides data connections with maximum redundancy and complete diversity.
This enterprise connectivity offering is fully customizable; thanks to PSC, you can access all available data transport technologies (fiber optic, copper, radio, LTE/4G) through a single infrastructure designed to guarantee maximum service continuity.
Connections are delivered to the client’s site using the best available technology (subject to actual availability) to ensure total diversity across all circuit components..
Megaport: private connectivity
Megaport is a network and cloud computing ecosystem that enables the creation of private connections between endpoints reached by the network itself. It allows you, for instance, to connect corporate infrastructure to a cloud provider via a private path.
Ideal for:
- Data center-to-cloud connections
- Connections to various cloud providers
- Connections between different cloud providers
- The interconnection of infrastructure across interconnected data centers
- Large-scale data transfer
- Temporary connections that don’t require long-term commitments, such as those used to migrate between cloud providers. Switch on when needed, switch off when finished—all in just a few clicks.
Branch-to-Cloud: connect branch offices, users and the cloud via a single network
Companies with multiple locations need to connect users, applications, and cloud services simply and securely.
You can integrate virtualized networking functions with your WAN architecture and connect branch offices and users to various cloud environments via a private network. It is a flexible solution that delivers connectivity where it is needed, simplifying network management.
Hybrid Cloud: connecting private infrastructure and the cloud
Keep systems you wish to manage internally within your data center or colocation facility, while moving applications and workloads that benefit from greater flexibility and scalability to the cloud.
With Cloud Bespoke, you can connect your distributed environments via a private, secure, and reliable connection, easily integrating it with your existing network infrastructure.
Multi-cloud: multiple clouds, single infrastructure management
AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle, Salesforce, IBM Cloud, and SAP can coexist within the same infrastructure without complicating network management.
Through a unified network architecture, it connects clouds, data centers, and corporate offices via private connections. This way, each new connection does not become a project to be managed separately, but rather part of an infrastructure that is already integrated and ready to scale.
Data-intensive workloads: when data grows, the network must keep pace
Performing backups, disaster recovery, cloud migrations, analytics, and AI applications requires large amounts of data to be transferred.
In these scenarios, private, reliable, and scalable connectivity helps manage traffic efficiently and builds an infrastructure capable of supporting the most intensive workloads.
Why choose Cloud Bespoke?
- It’s private: it connects your infrastructure to cloud services via private connections, reducing reliance on the public Internet.
- It is software-defined: connectivity is managed via a software-defined platform, offering greater flexibility than traditional models
- It is flexible: we build the solution around your architecture and evolve it as your needs change, without having to redesign the entire system from scratch
- It’s multi-cloud and global: connect multiple cloud providers through a common ecosystem and build hybrid architectures using a platform that links data centers, cloud providers, and other services
- It is secure: it protects traffic and data moving between your infrastructure and cloud services through private connections and an architecture designed to minimize the attack surface
- It’s simple: despite the underlying architecture’s significant complexity, the user experience is optimized
Cloud Bespoke is all about combining the right components to enhance your current setup.
Professional Link starts by assessing your company’s needs, analyzing your current infrastructure, and identifying the most suitable connectivity model. After all, there is no single “Cloud Bespoke” configuration; there is only a configuration best suited to your specific infrastructure.
Cloud Bespoke is right for you if…
- You are migrating applications to the cloud and want to design connectivity alongside the migration
- Your company uses multiple cloud providers and want to simplify communication between different environments
- You have infrastructure distributed across branch offices, data centers, colocation facilities, and the cloud
- You’re adopting SD-WAN and want to connect your sites to the cloud via a private network. • Transfer large volumes of data for backups, migrations, analytics, AI, or disaster recovery
- The network is becoming too complex, and you want a more flexible model for managing connections and routing
Building a solid cloud architecture means choosing where to run applications and store data, and deciding how these environments will communicate with one another.
With Cloud Bespoke, Professional Link and Megaport will help you build private, software-defined connectivity using the technologies best suited to your architecture.
Professional Link and Megaport: local expertise for a global network
Megaport provides a global Network-as-a-Service platform and ecosystem for connecting clouds, data centers, branch offices, and services, while Professional Link knows the market, business requirements, and network architecture of the client.
What is Cloud Bespoke?
Cloud Bespoke is Professional Link’s solution for establishing private, software-defined connectivity to the cloud, powered by the Megaport platform. The solution enables the interconnection of corporate infrastructure, data centers, branch offices, and cloud environments within hybrid and multi-cloud scenarios.
Which cloud providers can I connect with Cloud Bespoke?
Cloud Bespoke enables connections to the major cloud providers available within the Megaport ecosystem, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, and SAP. The solution is ideal for companies that use multiple cloud providers and need to effectively connect distributed IT environments.
What is the difference between PSC, VXC, and MCR?
PSC, VXC, and MCR perform different functions and can be used together within a Cloud Bespoke architecture.
The PSC links all customer locations—wherever they are situated—via direct internet access or a connection to the Professional Link data center.
The VXC (Megaport Virtual Cross Connect) establishes a private Layer 2 connection between two endpoints on the Megaport network. The MCR (Megaport Cloud Router) provides Layer 3 routing capabilities and allows for the interconnection of various cloud environments and endpoints. Professional Link identifies the optimal combination based on your infrastructure requirements.
Is Cloud Bespoke suitable for hybrid cloud or multi-cloud architectures?
Yes. Cloud Bespoke is specifically designed to support hybrid cloud and multi-cloud scenarios, where applications and data are distributed across private infrastructure, data centers, and one or more cloud providers. It enables the creation of private connections and the management of traffic between different environments, branch locations, SD-WANs, and distributed networking functions.
Why choose a private cloud connection instead of using the Internet?
A private cloud connection ensures that the link between corporate infrastructure and cloud services does not rely on the standard path across the public Internet. This allows for greater control over network architecture and enables connectivity to be designed based on specific requirements regarding security, performance, flexibility, scalability, and cost. It is an attractive approach for companies managing distributed cloud environments and large volumes of data or applications requiring reliable connectivity.