Written by mojotech | Nov 21, 2016 5:00:00 AM
One Marketplace™ Ethernet Service Recognized by MEF for Simplifying Multi-Cloud Connectivity
Waltham, MA, USA, November 21, 2016 -
Global Capacity, the leading connectivity as a service company, today announces that it is honored to win an
MEF16 Excellence Award in the ‘Best Service Innovation – North America’ category for its
Ethernet
Cloud Connect service. Global Capacity shares this MEF recognition for Best Service Innovation with AT&T. The MEF Excellence Awards recognize service, application, technology, and professional excellence and innovation in the global Third Network and Carrier Ethernet community. Global Capacity’s
Ethernet Cloud Connect service leverages a combination of established interconnects with software orchestration to simplify multi-Cloud connectivity and improve service performance, delivering a better user application experience to customers. Customers can connect to private Cloud locations or select from a list of existing One Marketplace Cloud destinations. Existing
One Marketplace™ Cloud service provider interconnects include
AWS,
Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure and
Equinix Cloud Exchange, with additional Cloud and Application Service Provider interconnects planned in 2016. Combining the reliability and flexibility of multi-destination Ethernet Virtual Private Line (EVPL) and its One Marketplace direct interconnects to the internet, Cloud computing and Cloud application providers, Ethernet Cloud Connect streamlines commercial buying across the Cloud services ecosystem. “This year, the competition among the MEF Excellence award submissions was fierce,” comments Erin Dunne, Director of Research for Vertical Systems Group. “Global Capacity’s Ethernet Cloud Connect service submission clearly illustrated an innovative yet simplified process for designing, pricing and ordering public and private Cloud services via the One Marketplace platform.” “Congratulations to Global Capacity for winning the MEF16 Excellence Award for Best Service Innovation in the highly competitive North American market,” comments Kevin Vachon, Chief Operating Officer, MEF. “Global Capacity’s new Ethernet Cloud Connect exemplifies visionary innovation in Ethernet services.” Global Capacity eliminates the complexity and inefficiency of the network market with its award-winning marketplace of networks, One Marketplace
. One Marketplace delivers unprecedented transparency, efficiency and simplicity to the highly fragmented data connectivity market by combining network delivery and service automation with a suite of customer and supplier applications in order to streamline the process of designing, pricing, buying, delivering and managing data connectivity solutions. Global Capacity’s One Marketplace dramatically simplifies and fundamentally changes how businesses buy connectivity, making it the provider of choice for hybrid WAN and Cloud Connectivity solutions. More at
globalcapacity.com.