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By Ryan Cassily
What it is, how it works, when to use it, and how to optimize it. Table of Contents Network Address Translation (NAT) has been around for a long time, playing a critical role in extending the lifespan of IPv4 as well as providing breathing room for deploying IPv6. Enterprises have been using it for decades in their corporate and data center networks as an integral part of their network management and security portfolio.
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By Matt Madawi
Learn about cloud storage tiers, costs, performance, and security best practices to optimize your cloud storage and reduce egress fees.
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By Todd Wenzel
From status facilities to distributed platforms, we take a practical look at the data center trends shaping 2026 so far. In 2026, data centers are crossing a tipping point. What were once emerging trends—software-defined infrastructure, AI-driven operations, sustainability constraints, and edge expansion—are now widespread reality, shaping real-world designs and buying decisions.
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By Rob Parker
Your first NOG meeting doesn't have to be daunting. Here's what to expect, how to prepare, and how to make the most of every session and conversation. Co-authored by Rob Parker and Gavin Tweedie If you’re trying to optimize your organization’s peering and Internet Exchange (IX) traffic engineering as your network grows, you may be searching for more ways to improve your network or customer experience.
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By Matt Bero
Struggling with cloud complexity? Compare dedicated, partner, and IPsec connections to find the right private connectivity solution. Multicloud environments bring complexity, and how you connect to your CSPs can make or break performance, cost, and reliability. Here’s how dedicated, partner, and IPsec connections compare — and which might be right for your business. There are three main methods of connecting to the cloud with private connectivity.
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By Dan Pfyl
Is it time to migrate your data center applications to the cloud? Get key considerations and a step-by-step migration path. Migrating your on-premises data center to the cloud can seem like a daunting task, from deciding on the right cloud deployment model to ensuring that your network connectivity is secure and scalable. For many companies, the question isn’t whether to migrate, but how to do it efficiently and with minimal disruption.
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By Dan Pfyl
Egress fees can quietly drive cloud costs. Learn practical ways to reduce your cloud egress fees in 2026 without redesigning everything. Cloud egress fees can sneak up on you. One month your cloud bill can look reasonable, and the next it’s clear that data movement is causing your cloud spend to fluctuate. For many network teams, egress is still treated as a fixed cost or something you only revisit during a major architecture change, but that approach doesn’t hold up in 2026.
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By Emmanuel Sevray
European organizations are facing growing data sovereignty demands. Discover options, benefits, and best practices for keeping your data local. Across Europe, organizations are rethinking how they manage their data. The reasons for this push are multi-layered. The U.S. Government’s approach to data privacy often contrasts with Europe’s generally tighter regulations – but recent geopolitical and regulatory shifts in the U.S.
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By David Sloan
Explore four Cisco and Megaport Virtual Edge solutions that bring secure, high-performance networking closer to users and clouds. Enterprises have quickly outgrown the constraints of legacy WAN architectures. As cloud and SaaS dominate and users grow more distributed, rigid infrastructure models—complete with backhaul-heavy designs and unpredictable internet performance—no longer work.
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By Brian Bauman
Learn what causes high multicloud latency, and how you can reduce it with a few simple methods – no hardware deployment required. Latency is usually one of those problems that shows up before anyone has time to go looking for it – and troubleshooting it can feel like you’re aiming for a moving target.
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By Megaport
This step-by-step guide shows how easy it is to connect to AWS using Megaport. In this video, we cover: Provisioning an AWS Direct Connect Port in your chosen data center Selecting your AWS region Finding your ASN and AWS Account ID in the AWS Management Console Specifying your VLANs Attaching the virtual gateway for your VPC.
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By Megaport
How to lock services – learn how to lock and unlock Ports and MCRs in the Megaport Portal to prevent accidental changes or deletions. This video shows how to: Lock a Port or MCR from the Services page Understand the lock status indicators Unlock a service when changes are needed.
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By Megaport
VXC connectivity – learn how to verify Virtual Cross Connect (VXC) status and diagnose connectivity issues in the Megaport Portal. This video covers: Checking VXC status from the Services page Identifying connectivity issues between endpoints Understanding VXC status indicators.
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By Megaport
What does it take to shape the backbone of the internet? For Raphael Maunier, it started with three failed bachelor’s attempts and a leap into configuring Cisco routers with zero formal training. In this episode of Uplink, Raphael Maunier, Co-Founder and COO of OpsMill, joins host Michael Reid to share the remarkable story of how chance, risk-taking, and vision led him to co-found multiple internet infrastructure companies—France IX, Acorus Networks, and more—ultimately acquired by global tech players.
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By Megaport
We’ve teamed up with the Heavy Networking podcast to take you under the hood of Megaport’s resilient, software-driven network. Luke Gollan, Network Automation Engineer at Megaport, joins Heavy Networking hosts Ethan Banks and Drew Conry-Murray to unpack what happens when you click “provision” in the Megaport portal.
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By Megaport
What does data sovereignty mean in practice for European cloud adoption? In this episode of Uplink, Nicolas Duffour, Strategic Development Director at Cloud Temple, joins host Michael Reid to unpack how enterprises and public agencies balance compliance, security, and innovation. From leading IT for French government ministries to helping Cloud Temple secure the prestigious SecNumCloud qualification, Nicolas brings first-hand expertise in navigating Europe’s regulatory landscape.
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By Megaport
Bridging East and West in today’s digital landscape takes more than connectivity – it requires navigating regulations, geopolitics, and the rise of AI. In this episode of Uplink, Elena Chernykh, Head of Europe Enterprise Sales at CITIC Telecom CPC, joins Michael Reid to discuss how enterprises can thrive in a world where data sovereignty and AI demands are reshaping infrastructure.
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By Megaport
Connectivity powers our world, but the way it’s bought and sold is being transformed. In this episode of Uplink, Michael Reid talks with Ben Edmond, founder and CEO of Connectbase, about building a global marketplace for digital infrastructure. With 4.2 million quotes processed each month and 1.9 trillion rows of connectivity data, Connectbase is revolutionizing how providers and enterprises access real-time intelligence.
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By Megaport
What happens when a social media obsession turns into one of the most unconventional and impactful careers in tech? In this episode of Uplink, Alexis Bertholf, Global Technical Evangelist at Megaport, explores how she’s making network engineering cool again, and why connectivity is the oxygen that cloud and AI can’t live without.
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By Megaport
Redundancy isn’t just a buzzword – it’s the design principle keeping modern AI and cloud applications online. In this Uplink episode, Kevin Schlosser, Interconnection Product Manager at NTT Global Data Centers, explains how resilient infrastructure is engineered to expect failure but remain operational. We explore: Diverse entry points and fiber path management AI-driven bandwidth growth: 100G standard, 400G emerging Cooling innovations for intense compute workloads Why providers without their own fiber may offer the most resilient paths.
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By Megaport
Connect anything. Control everything. Megaport ONE is a white-label, multi-tenant SaaS platform for data center operators (DCOs) and managed services providers (MSPs) to help their customers orchestrate, network, and enable their cloud services.
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By Megaport
Modernize branch-to-cloud connectivity with Megaport Virtual Edge (MVE), our on-demand Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) service. Deploy SD-WAN gateways, virtual routers, and integrated transit gateways in minutes.
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By Megaport
Our Network as a Service (NaaS) platform provides private, scalable, and on-demand connectivity in minutes, not months. We've partnered with the world's top CSPs including AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, as well as the largest data center operators, systems integrators, and managed service providers in the world, giving your IT department-and the workloads it supports-the high-performance network connectivity it deserves.
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By Megaport
Learn how easy it is to provision fast, secure, and private connections to AWS via our global Software Defined Network (SDN). You can provision connectivity from hundreds of Megaport enabled locations to multiple AWS regions and Direct Connect Points of Presence (PoPs) across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific in just a few clicks.
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By Megaport
Did you know major Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) incentivize their customers to adopt private interconnection by keeping egress charges over the public internet high? Many of our customers who connect to the major CSPs via the internet, pay massive monthly fees unnecessarily.
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By Megaport
Provision fast, secure, and private connectivity to Google Cloud Platform. Megaport's Enterprise-grade connection to Google Cloud bypasses the public internet give customers the benefit.
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Deploy a global, high availability network in minutes on Megaport’s industry-leading Network as a Service (NaaS) platform.
Organise all of your connections from one place and bring your network together into an easy-to-use platform. Build hybrid, multicloud, cloud-to-cloud, and disaster recovery solutions with multiple connections to regional and global services. Instead of managing each resource separately, bring everything together into a seamless process. Go as complex as you want with your network architecture and then simplify everything else.
Agile Networking for Real-time IT Transformation:
- Build connections faster: Speed up your setup and simplify the process of building and deploying connections to the services your business runs on. Get connected to cloud services, managed services, and between data centres almost instantly. Move your workloads in real time so you can focus on what’s next.
- Move data further: Reach the cloud from wherever you are and transport your data between global locations easily. Connect between metros, countries, and continents. Scale your business to new markets. Create a seamless multi-region network.
- Be more agile: Right-size your connectivity from the get-go then dial your bandwidth up and down at any time. Make your connections flexible for when your business grows and changes, major projects come up, or when you need to make everyday workload transfers more efficient without blowing out your bottom line.
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