Does your organization require high-bandwidth (more than 10 Gbps) access between its network infrastructure and Prisma Access at multiple locations as part of your hybrid multicloud strategy? Perhaps you’ve thought about aggregating multiple service connections to achieve high bandwidth, but you’re concerned about scalability. If so, Colo-Connect has you covered.

Today, large enterprises are building Colo-based performance hubs to reach private applications in hybrid, multicloud architectures because of the high-bandwidth and low-latency requirements. Typically, these hubs include interconnects to one or more cloud providers and connections to the on-premises data centers over a private or leased WAN. Performance hubs can route traffic between the public cloud and on-premises infrastructure at high speed, and are resilient because of the underlying interconnect infrastructure.

Colo-Connect builds on the Colo-based performance hub concept, offering high-bandwidth (10-20 Gbps) low-latency connections, seamless Layer 2/3 connectivity to Prisma Access from existing performance hubs. The following figure shows Prisma Access being onboarded in a GCP instance using service connections and cloud interconnects. This setup limits exposure to the internet and allows the use of private connections for private application connectivity.

Colo-Connect allows you to use Prisma Access to secure private apps using a cloud interconnect that can provide high-bandwidth service connections using the following capabilities: