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dennisntwMember

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Is there anyone working in Hong Kong Console Connect?

Is there anyone working in Hong Kong Console Connect? No one to follow up the new port order for two month. Our account Manager is completely unreachable. We escalated to VP Benny and no reply from him also.

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1 month ago

KasiaVultr

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Console Connect and Vultr for Manufacturing Operations

The transformative impact of integrating IoT in manufacturing is driven by key technologies such as AI, 5G, edge computing, and cloud solutions. These technologies enable real-time data collection and analysis, predictive maintenance, precise production control, and comprehensive supply chain visibility. By modernizing IT infrastructure, manufacturers can overcome legacy system constraints, enhance data utilization, and drive automation, leading to improved accuracy, productivity, and competitiveness.Console Connect and Vultr support these advancements by integrating Console Connect's CloudRouter® Layer 3 and Edge SIM with Vultr's advanced cloud computing capabilities, including the Vultr GPU cloud powered by NVIDIA. This integration provides tailored solutions for end-to-end network infrastructure, applications, and security. Given that manufacturing represents 22% of global IoT deployments, this approach ensures secure and direct connectivity for IoT devices within a private network,

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4 months ago

KasiaVultr

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Vultr and Console Connect Integration: Lower Latency, Enhanced Connectivity, and Real-Time Processing

Hey everyone! Earlier this year att the Mobile World Congress, Bart and I tested the EdgeSIM for a demo, showcasing the integration of Vultr Cloud with Console Connect's CloudRouter® and EdgeSIM products. We set up and configured Layer 3 networking for an IoT device, and the results were impressive. Vultr showed significantly lower latency (71-78ms) compared to AWS (75-91ms).For developers, this lower latency is a game-changer, especially for applications needing real-time processing like AI, machine learning, gaming, IoT, and financial services. Faster network speeds enhance user experience, improve data transfer efficiency, enable real-time processing, and support better scalability.The use case advantages that Console Connect and Vultr bring to end users include Edge SIM connectivity and services as part of CloudRouter, making it compatible with a wide variety of clouds, enterprise buildings, and more, just like any other node. These nodes benefit from our direct connections outside

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5 months ago

Dave HumphreysConsole Connect

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[Closed] Help us improve Console Connect and get rewarded

Hi, I’m David, Senior User Researcher with the Console Connect Design Team. This quarter, the Design teams in Brisbane and London are conducting extensive usability testing of our designs for Console Connect.The best test participants are our customers, and if you are interested in helping to improve Console Connect we would love to hear from you.The testing projects will be a mix of short online-only tests (5-10 mins) and testing interviews that are 30-45 mins long.The features and product designs we will be looking at include:Billing and account management on the platform Support ticketing A cleaner process for ordering access ports on the platform Integrating Marketplace (third-party) products into the Console Connect pricing calculator Designs for the new Live Media Transport feature Testing these designs with the people using them helps us produce a high-quality user experience. We want to speak to customers from a range of roles, including:IT Infrastructure Network engineers Acco

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WillCommunity Manager

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Learn more with Console Connect Academy

Console Connect is proud to announce Console Connect Academy - a learning platform where you can learn all you need to know about working with the Console Connect app. Time to level up your skills and grow your knowledge!Head over to the Academy section of the app to get started, or use this handy direct link. The first course, Console Connect Fundamentals 100, is now available. It takes you through the basics of Console Connect and what we do, so you can make sure you have a fundamental understanding of all that we offer as soon as you join.And until 31 December 2023, you can enrol for FREE - just use the promotion code helloCCA when enrolling.We’re also offering an exclusive limited edition badge if you're one of the first 100 users to finish the course - if you earn it and want to showcase your status on the community, just let me know :)This is just the start - we’ll have new courses coming soon, so keep an eye out. You can follow this thread to get notified of new discussions and

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1 year ago

saherNew Member

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Difference between PoP and DC PoP

Dears,When I check Console Connect map I see they have 135 PoPs. However, somewhere else on the website it’s mentioned 900+ Data Center PoPs. How can I understand the difference between those numbers?Thanks for any hint.Saher

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1 year ago

diveshgConsole Connect

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APIdays

Hi @Will got a question for you. I am speaking at a conference here in Hong Kong later this month - organized by APIdays https://www.apidays.global/ and would like to advertise Console Connect APIs to the developer community attending this conference.Would you have a few bullets point or perhaps a slide that I can include in my presentation..? thanks

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1 year ago

FilNew Member

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Definition of "Extended" locations

I am looking at Console Connect Locations and there is a category of location called ‘Extended’.Is there a clear definition of extended?

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1 year ago

JamoBelvaMember

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Data Centers in Africa

Data centers have become a vital component of the digital economy, providing the necessary infrastructure to store, process, and manage large amounts of data generated by individuals, governments, and businesses. While many regions across the globe have established significant data center infrastructure, Africa has lagged behind in this regard. However, this is changing rapidly, with Africa emerging as a key destination for data center investment and development.Historically, Africa has had limited data center infrastructure, with just over 500 MW of total capacity in 2020, compared to over 5,000 MW in Europe. However, with the growing demand for digital services on the continent, global data center providers and local players are investing heavily in Africa. This investment is driven by the growing demand for digital services, such as online education, e-commerce, and social media, among the young and tech-savvy African population.Mobile connectivity is another key factor driving the

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1 year ago

WillCommunity Manager

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Giving feedback

Here’s where you can let us know what you think of Console Connect. Any changes you’d want to make, improvements for how you use the app, new locations or features we should add, it can all go here.Just hit Create a Topic in the top-right and let us know. There’s no wrong way to do it, but try to talk about what change or addition would be helpful for you, rather than just talking about the current situation. Give as much detail as you can.When you post, I’ll find the right person within Console Connect to talk about your feedback with, and bring them into the discussion. If you see a discussion that’s already been started that you can add to, go ahead - when we all collaborate, we’re more able to build the best product that we can.

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1 year ago

WillCommunity Manager

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How burstable pricing could work for you

Burstable pricing is a new option available for our premium business internet access service, Internet-on-Demand, on Console Connect. Internet-on-Demand (IO-D) allows you to extend internet connectivity to your users wherever you have a Console Connect port. When you know usage on your network can be variable, burstable pricing can give a flexible and efficient cost option to allow you to scale up quickly and efficiently without loss of service to your users. Console Connect offers a 95th percentile burstable billing calculation to make sure that surges and spikes in usage are taken into account without having to maintain service at the surge level for the entire month. Each month, we calculate your bandwidth usage, and remove the top 5% without billing for it, to enable you to soak those spikes. You can read more in our Help Centre documentation. While a Pay-As-You-Go model suits businesses with known fluctuations in demand without commitment, the ability to burst bandwidth and scale

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1 year ago

itvocal-jgeigerMember

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Using Console to connect to an Equinix Internet Exchange

Equinix operates many popular Internet Exchanges around the world. For a long time, I was told by Equinix sales that I needed to have a cabinet and equipment in the datacenter with the IX in order to join the IX. This is no longer the case and can all be ordered (theoretically) without speaking to a sales rep. First, register for an account at ix.equinix.com. After you login, you’ll see a list of regions that have exchanges and then cities. Select the city you’d like to join. Then you’ll be able to select the port speed you’d like to join at. Keep the port speed in mind. Now switch to the Console Connect portal and look at the Equinix locations that are onnet for ports. Order a port at the same speed as the one you are going to select on the Equinix portal. If you don’t, the link won’t come up. Be sure to note the specific building location of the port. Also note that all of the bandwidth on this port will be dedicated to the exchange as the physical port will be patched into the IX LA

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1 year ago

itvocal-jgeigerMember

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Internet on Demand (IoD) IPv6 interface subnet mask

After you provision the IoD service, you have everything you need to bring up IPv4 and IPv6 BGP sessions however the portal is missing the IPv6 interface subnet mask. I reached out to the NOC and found that the typical subnet mask is /126. Hopefully the automated information will get updated to provide this information as well as shortened IPv6 addresses. I had to use an IPv6 address compressor to make sure I had computed it correctly manually.

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1 year ago

itvocal-jgeigerMember

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Linux based routers and Console Connect

I ran into an issue when setting my up Linux based router (Danos Vyatta Edition) with Console Connect. Traffic on my Internet on Demand circuit mostly worked but a few applications wouldn’t connect or connected very slowly. I took two packet captures, one with IoD enabled and one without IoD enabled so I could compare the two. The one without IoD enabled showed the application filling up the packet size allowed and flowing through the router just fine. The capture with IoD enabled also showed full packets but the connections would stall. Turns out on Linux based routers, you need to set the MTU of the physical port to 1522 and the VLAN to 1500. Both default to 1500 from a basic install. The VLAN header was pushing the packet over the MTU limit and causing them to drop instead of renegotiate. The Console Connect L2 documentation briefly describes the MTU setting.Port Specifications

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1 year ago

Bourne ChengNew Member

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Which AWS connection type was supported by Console Connect?

Which AWS connection type was supported by Console Connect?Hosted VIF? or Hosted Connection?

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1 year ago

jktConsole Connect

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Choosing between Layer 2 and Layer 3 for your network

Depending on your network needs, a point-to-point Layer 2 (L2) connection or a Layer 3 (L3VPN) ‘mesh’ could be more appropriate. But how do you know which approach is right for you? I want to take you through some different scenarios to help illustrate each approach’s strengths and help you make a decision.We’re often asked about the practical differences in using an L3VPN such as CloudRouter, and so I wanted to illustrate the benefits with a practical example. Let’s take a look at a use case of a customer with four global locations (Dallas, New York, Frankfurt and Sydney):Each of the depicted circuits is 500Mbps, therefore NYC has the ability to send 1.5Gbps (3 x 500Mbps) of traffic. However, only 500Mbps can be sent to each destination. In addition, because there are 1.5Gbps of circuits terminating at each site, the customer would need a 10GE port as opposed to 1GE port.Here’s how the costs break down monthly for this example:Port total: $900/moConnections total: $6445/moGrand total:

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1 year ago

HolbyConsole Connect

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New Business from Console Connect

How do I find new business partners to help justify my port charges?

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2 years ago

WillCommunity Manager

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Sharing best practices

Got a tip for getting the most out of Console Connect? Configured your network in a way you think others could benefit from? Or just looking to learn from the best? Here’s the place.Hit Create a Topic up top, and let us know the tips and tricks of the trade that others could benefit from.

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2 years ago

WillCommunity Manager

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Asking a question

If you have any question about any aspect of Console Connect, you can ask it in this category. Just hit “Create a Topic” in the top bar and ask away. The community forum is a discussion board, so there’s no need to wait for a live response - subscribe to the topic, and you can get back to your day and be notified by email as soon as there’s a reply.When you have one, come back, see the answer you’ve got, and continue the conversation if needed. If the answer got you everything you need, then you can mark that answer as the “best answer”, which means that people with similar questions in future can find their answers much more easily.

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2 years ago

wsituConsole Connect

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Media eco system

Hi Media Participants,How are you and what is new in your respective eco-system space from content creation, marketing rights, acquisition of lived streaming, distribution of the lived contents to the Rights Holders, local broadcasting to the end viewers.

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2 years ago

Jean-LoicConsole Connect

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Classes of services

Hi all, in the document CloudRouter i saw 4 class of services: https://app.consoleconnect.com/service-specification/cloudrouter On the platform, we can order only 3. Is there a workaround ?

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2 years ago

mclaisseConsole Connect

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Technology engagement (internal)

Internal community (for testing purpose)

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2 years ago

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