BT has rolled out the Global Fabric network-as-a-service (NaaS) that connects multiple clouds for businesses.
Global Fabric is designed to be flexible, scalable and resilient both in the quality of connectivity and the convenience of pay-as-you-use. By combining the power of cloud and networks, customers can optimise application performance, user experience and cost.
They will be able to choose the right type of connectivity for their applications and workloads and proactively manage the routes these take as they move across the network. With this control, customers can achieve the best applications performance, manage costs and address growing regulatory requirements for data in transit.
The new high-capacity, fully programmable network is built with state-of-the-art equipment offering improvements in efficiency, sustainability, and resilience.
When fully rolled out, Global Fabric will use 79 per cent less electricity than BT’s current global networks. This means customers on the new network will be able to reduce their Scope 3 carbon emissions.
The new network’s digital orchestration and e-commerce-like interface enable customers to “shop” for connectivity. It will be pre-integrated with more than 630 digital service providers and more than 700 data centres. This covers the world’s largest public cloud providers, private clouds, network, software-as-a-service (SaaS), and secure access service edge (SASE) solutions.
“Global Fabric will future proof customers’ connectivity by providing flexibility to ensure they’re always connected so they can always be productive. Customers can achieve better total costs, boost app performance and user experience, all while complying with regulations and mitigating cyber threats,” said Bas Burger, CEO of Business at BT.
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