Network connectivity

What are cross connects?

As the building block of network connectivity, a cross connect provides critical paths to your workloads and applications. Our rapidly deployable cross connects allow you to access the full Iron Mountain Data Center Ecosystem of clouds, networks, strategic partners and service providers quickly, securely, and cost effectively. The distance from your gear to a provider is just a few feet, so latency is minimal, and with no third party provider to run through, traffic remains secure. All physical connections leverage fiber for maximum speed. In addition to physical cables, we offer virtual cross connects which are even faster to deploy. Provisioning is simple and fast. Just order as many as you need via your online customer portal.

What are virtual cross connects?

Virtual Cross Connects (VXCs) help you scale your business. As you grow your data center footprint from one to multiple facilities. It is quicker, easier and more flexible to scale up your connections and extend your reach through virtual as opposed to physical Cross Connects. VXCs let you link between every Iron Mountain Data Center, and because you are part of the Iron Mountain Data Center Ecosystem you can also deploy virtual connections via our SDN partners to hundreds of other locations.

The order process is just as simple as with physical cables via your online customer portal.

What is IP transit?

Iron Mountain’s Direct Internet Access (IP Transit) service provides you with fast, reliable and affordable internet connectivity.

We partner with a wide range of strategic local, national and global carriers to deliver dedicated IP transit services. We also offer multi-homed BGP Direct Internet Access (DIA), which blends tier 1 carrier services for a consistent, reliable connectivity option.

Our DIA services come with a redundant connection as part of the service. Redundancy options are available for BGP or HSRP/VRRP as well. Additionally, IPv4 and IPv6 space is available for lease.

Uptime SLAs guarantee the reliability of your connection.

Either service is suitable as a supplement to existing capacity, a backup option or as your primary solution.

What is cloud on-ramp?

Today’s digital businesses need dedicated cloud connections to operate securely and reliably, and we make every effort to get our customers closer to the cloud.

Based on your redundancy, budget and scale requirements, we can help you connect directly to cloud providers through a variety of port and transport options in our Meet-Me-Rooms.

Either make a direct connection where the provider is present in the data center or use one of our Software Defined Network (SDN) partners for access.

You can also invite competitive proposals from a huge range of carriers to get rapidly deployable, cost-effective access to hundreds of paths to the clouds you want.

For greater control and scalability, Iron Mountain Metro Wave also provides highly scalable connectivity to strategic interconnection points where you can book a dedicated cross connect to your clouds.