A research lab has a cage in a building that hosts a Google Cloud interconnect location. The lab will order the cross-connect from that cage. No carrier MPLS service is used. Which model is this?
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Short Explanation
You are in the building with Google, and you are ordering the cable yourself, which is a colocation cross-connect. An MPLS handoff would be a carrier's product, and you are not buying one. The building's internet uplink is a different model entirely.
Full Explanation
Colocation private connectivity is the customer's cross-connect from the customer's cage to the cloud provider in the same facility. The lab has the cage, the building has the Google interconnect location, and the lab orders the cable. No MPLS carrier is involved, so this is not a provider handoff. Native HA VPN over the building internet uplink is internet IPsec. It does not use the interconnect they are sitting next to. An SDCI virtual circuit needs their fabric port in some metro. They are not ordering that. They are ordering a physical cross-connect from a cage they already occupy. Exam caveat: the cross-connect becomes useful when a VLAN attachment is associated with a Cloud Router. A dark fiber jumper with no attachment does not reach the VPC. Operational check: Google should show the attachment up on the Cloud Router, and the lab router should peer across the VLAN they ordered rather than across an HA VPN public address.