Equinix experts Ed Baichtal and Ted Kawka walk through a real enterprise use case
Private connectivity — not VPN over the public internet — is the foundation of reliable hybrid multicloud networking. By leveraging colocation infrastructure and private interconnection, enterprises achieve consistent performance, predictable OpEx pricing, and the flexibility to connect across multiple cloud providers at scale. The key is eliminating jitter and unpredictable latency before it becomes an architectural bottleneck.
In this Tech Talk, Equinix experts Ed Baichtal and Ted Kawka walk through a real enterprise use case: a global industry leader with 95% of workloads in AWS, SAP running on-premise, and colocation presence in Chicago and Ashburn — facing a major transformation inflection point. With multiple cloud providers needed, unpredictable latency, and complex SAP data dependencies, the company had to reduce reliance on public internet VPN and move to a cloud-adjacent, private interconnection architecture.
The solution: Equinix Fabric, Fabric Cloud Router (FCR), and Layer 3 IP-WAN — enabling consistent, low-latency routing across clouds, predictable pricing, and high-speed circuits up to 50Gbps. What makes this real life example stand out? The customer implemented Fabric Cloud Router themselves in two weeks with no further support needed.
Whether you're evaluating private vs. public connectivity models, planning data center consolidation, or designing a scalable cloud architecture across on-prem and colocation, this story shows what's possible when infrastructure meets intelligent design.