Everyone, and welcome back to the Knowledge video series, so continuing that journey with the networking
section today, we have an overview about Direk and now direct is a pretty important topic as far as
the exams are concerned.
And when it comes to the Advanced Networking Specialty Certification Directorate, that's one of the
most important topic.
So let's go ahead and understand the necessity of that reckoning now in the normal communication.
Let's assume you have a customer and you have a BBC in it.
So if you want to connect to the VPC, what happens behind the scenes is the Internet comes into the
picture.
So this is the Internet.
And then you wrote your traffic to the Internet and you get the data back through the Internet.
So this is how most of the communication works.
Now, when you talk about Internet, the packet basically Traveston hops.
So there are a lot of rotor's which are present all over the place.
And if you assume I have my client in India and server somewhere in Oregon, so the packets will actually
have to travel in hops all over the world to reach to the Oregon region.
And as you might assume, it leads to a lot of latency as well.
So let me just show you on what do I mean by that?
So you're I have done a simple traceroute on Google dot com.
And you see it actually took around 17 hops for my packet to reach the Google server.
So this is the first hop from first hop to second hop.
So you can assume like this is the fourth round from the first hour or two seconds into third or fourth
and so on.
So today there were 10 hops which were required for my packets to reach from client to destination.
Now it actually sometimes goes much more at certain times.
A lot of clients, they host their websites in North Virginia or Ireland or even Oregon.
And to read that, it actually requires like 20 hops or sometimes 25 hops.
And that leads to a lot of latency.
And the website basically starts to get slow.
And this is the reason why this approach is definitely good.
But sometimes when there are critical applications where latency is one of the most important, then
Internet is something which is not but a foot ideally.
So let's look into the challenges for this.
Internet is good option.
The amount of traffic is within a certain limit.
Now, there are always latency of involved if you go to the Internet.
Now, many of the organizations have hybrid architecture, like some of the servers are in datacenter,
some of this or that in need of this.
And one of the companies that I used to work with, we had a hybrid architecture like some of the applications.
So it was very data center and some of the applications so was very cloud and both the servers needed
to communicate for the website to work properly.
So for the client request to complete successfully, would the servers in the data center in the U.S.
and the network connectivity should be optimal for other things to work in the ideal manner.
Now, if the network connectivity between the data center and the PC, let's assume ISP.
So if the ISP is down or at the ISP slow, then the entire website gets hampered.
That is one thing.
If the ISP is not providing good bandwidth as was requested, again, the website becomes law.
So there are a lot of challenges when you go through the Internet, specifically if you have your infrastructure
both in datacenter and in cloud, and both of them needs communication.
So many of the organizations are following this approach.
And this is the reason why Eatables came up with a new feature of Direct Connect.
So in order to solve this challenge, it introduced Direct Connect.
So Innovest Direct Connect lets customer establish a dedicated Dierig network connection from the client's
network and one of their direct connect locations.
So what we do is you have a data center here.
You have a deepsea and you establish a direct connection legalese line from the datacenter to the BBC
and thus you bypass the Internet.
And this is very, very effective because you don't really have to worry about things slowing down or
other things.
You have a.
You have an extremely fast network between your data center and ABC, and you go ahead and implement
the hybrid architecture, whatever you want to implement.
So there are a lot of benefits of direct connect connection, ancient forces that having direct connection
between the customers data center to it brings a tremendous amount of benefits.
Some of them includes consistent network performance.
So many of you must be familiar, like if you have your Wi-Fi, you will not get fast speed all the
time.
Certain times you will get to very slow speed.
Certain sometimes do not work only.
So that is inconsistent network performance.
So when you go a direct connect, you have a consistent network performance because that amount of time
is allocated to you and it is not what used that is first, but second is reduced bandwidth cost.
So again, this weekend referred to the ISP.
Now generally when you go for the Internet service provider, they nation at your home.
They have various plans planned for 30 DB plan for 40 DB plan for 100 DB.
The more higher you go, the more money you have to pay.
And same way then you go to datacenter, the more higher you go.
You have to pay a lot of money and then you go for that direct connect connection.
Since this isn't something like a leased line which is directly connected, you don't really have to
pay a very high cost.
The cost of bandwidth is much more lesser than that of the ISP.
So this is second.
Third is private connectivity to your BBC and this is also quite good because you don't have to worry
about man in the middle ear tags or other things.
You have a direct, dedicated line to your VPC.
So if you benefit now, actually, let me show you.
So this is the architecture of the direct, direct connection where on the left hand side you have your
data center and on the right hand side you have your Amazon VPC and in the middle you have a direct
connect broider.
So what you do is you connect a line from your data center to a direct connect provider and the Direct
Connect provider has a dedicated fiber optics like link to the AWB.
So all you have to worry is about connecting your datacenter to one of their direct connect providers.
So in order to establish this, you have to definitely you have to contact some direct connect provider
who will help you in establishing line between your data center and then and after that, you don't
have to worry.
They'll take care of the other section.
So now let's go ahead and quickly exploded that connect console.
So within these services, let's open up the Direct Connect.
No one thing that you'll notice here is that the direct connect here is a global service, and when
you go ahead and create a connection, you can do it at a regional level.
So let's go ahead and quickly open up the connections and you'll see that there are no connections that
are available.
So in order to create a connection, you can click on this specific button and know there are two types
here.
One is the classic and second one is the connection wizard.
So let's use the classic one first.
So let's quickly just call it as Kepi Labs testing.
The next important part is the location, so there are multiple locations that you'll see over here.
Let's look into the one that is associated with the India region.
So you have one in Mumbai.
So let's go ahead and use that.
Now, we didn't report speed.
There are two primary port speeds that are available.
You have one Gbps and you have 10 Gbps.
Now, depending upon the bandwidth that you need between your data center and AWG via the Direct Connect.
You can go ahead and use any one among them.
So for our testing, let's use one Gbps and let's just connect through a connection partner for the
time being once.
Then you can go ahead and create a connection.
Now, as soon as the connection is created, you see that it goes to the requested speech.
Now, do know that whenever you set up a direct connection, you have to connect your datacenter environment
with a direct connect provider.
And for this, one of the four step that is needed is the approval.
So once you get the approval from the site, in fact, let me show you the steps.
So if you look into how it works, first, you can go ahead and decide the direct connect location.
And the connection says this is something that we have already done.
So the location is Mumbai, India, and the bandwidth is one GBS.
Now, once you do that, the state goes to the request and after it gets approved, then you get a specific
letter of authorization also for the elderly.
And once you get this Eluay, then you can go ahead and connect with their direct connect provider to
further looking to how things can be integrated.
So for today's video will keep it simple, I hope, at a high level, or do you understood the benefits
that an organization can get if they are making use of our direct connect?