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Oracle Cloud

A direct path to the (Sovereign) Oracle datacenter in Amsterdam or Frankfurt

Oracle Cloud vs Oracle Sovereign Cloud

NL-ix provides connectivity to both Oracle Cloud and Oracle Sovereign Cloud environments.

Oracle Cloud is Oracle’s global public cloud platform, used by organisations to run applications, infrastructure, and data services in cloud regions worldwide. Oracle Sovereign Cloud environments are designed for organisations that require cloud infrastructure operated within a specific jurisdiction, supporting strict regulatory and data sovereignty requirements.

Both environments are accessible via the NL-ix platform, allowing participants to exchange traffic with Oracle cloud resources over a private network connection.

Datacenter location Available regions: Fabric options: Redundancy: Supported bandwidths
Amsterdam Oracle Cloud A-A or A-B Single or 2x Single for redundancy 1 Gbps
2 Gbps
5 Gbps
10 Gbps
Franfurt Oracle Cloud and Oracle Sovereign Cloud A-A or A-B Single or 2x Single for redundancy 1 Gbps
2 Gbps
5 Gbps
10 Gbps

Order and provisioning process

The order and provisioning process for Oracle Fastconnect contains the following steps:

  1. The customer orders a FastConnect in the Oracle Cloud domain, which generates a OCID which is shared with NL-ix.
  2. NL-ix use the OCID to 'accept' the FastConnect, state to which Oracle Ramp-up port this FastConnect is connected and determines the transport VLAN.
  3. The VLAN is configured on the relevant (customer) ports and the information is shared with the customer.
  4. The customer sets up the correct BGP peering in order to create a working connection.

Oracle Configuration Guide

In order to get a FastConnect working, a Virtual Cloud Network (VCN) with a Dynamic Routing Gateway (DRG) is required.

It is important that this is correctly done with the correct properties in order to make the connection work. The following things need to be taken into account:

  • A FastConnect is region-dependent. It is important that the correct region is selected before creating the resource. This can be Amsterdam or Frankfurt
  • The Connection-Type that needs to be chosen is Fastconnect Partner
    • In the dropdown the Partner needs to be selected, which is NL-ix
    • NL-ix shows up als partners for Amsterdam and Frankfurt.
  • In the rest of the configuration, specific parameters are set, such as the Customer ASN and primary/secundary BGP peering subnet, and the bandwidth (1Gbps is the smallest)
    • It is important that the Virtual Circuit Type is set to Private Virtual Circuit

After the creation of the FastConnect, there is a OCID-key that needs to be shared with NL-ix in order to identify the ordered FastConnect.