Key Features
The bare metal cloud uses an east-west optimized architecture, with a high capacity aggregation layer. Our switches also use cut-through instead of store-and-forward which reduce latency and improves overall performance for directly connected nodes.
- The bare metal network is completely dynamic – any two points in the network can be connected at any time.
- It uses cut-through switching to achieve wire speed latency.
- It can create unlimited layer 2 broadcast domains for each user.
- it automatically assigns IPs and seamlessly manages instance migrations.
- It can be securely connected to existing on-premises networks or VPNs.
- Instance ports can be aggregated to provide up to 40 Gbps.
All Bare Metal, All Software Defined
When an API call is made or an action takes place in the Control Center, the bare metal network automatically creates a secure tunnel between the two physical ports, linking them via an isolated layer 2 pseudo-wire connection. This tunnel is a bare metal environment in which VLANS can be driven and traffic can broadcast. When a new port is added to the same LAN, the layer 2 network is expanded, just like a physical on-premises network.
The Bare Metal Network provides lower latency, more elasticity, and improved security compared to traditional cloud networks. It runs entirely on bare metal - there is no virtualization or other types of software switching involved.
Power User Design Capabilities
Designing a complex network architecture in the Control Center is as simple as drag & drop. The interface allows building networks as easy as drawing a wireframe on paper. It literally takes minutes to:
Create the
physical LANs
Cross-connect
Instance Arrays
Define
WAN connections
Aggregate
ports
Define
secure zones
Hours Saved on Management
The bare metal network automates repetitive tasks and makes it easy for DevOps, sysadmins and network engineers to build elegantly secure and simple systems:
- IPs are allocated or migrated automatically when infrastructures are built or scaled.
- Networks have customizable labels and colors for easy identification.
- Every action performed in the Control Center can be automated via the API.
The World's Fastest Cloud Network on Bare Metal
The bare metal network delivers lower latency and higher throughput than any other
public cloud network as it was designed from the ground up for performance:
FAST SWITCHING
Virtualized public clouds use software switching, which takes milliseconds to forward frames. The Bare Metal Network uses exclusively bare metal switching. Frames are sent on their way within microseconds, making it tens of times faster than any other cloud network.
Cut-Through Switching
Unlike store-and-forward, cut-through switching only analyzes the first few bytes of a packet in an ASIC before forwarding it to the appropriate port. It doesn’t introduce any latency, so the packets are always transferred through the network at wire speed.
DYNAMIC BUFFERS
When a port is saturated, incoming packets are temporarily stored by the switches in the bare metal network into dynamic-size buffers on high-performance memory. This minimizes packet drop rates and improves network performance.
Faster Is Better
One microsecond is to one second as one second is to 11 days.
MINIMUM STORAGE LATENCY
Sending fewer larger packets means compounded communication latency is minimized. That is why storage traffic in the bare metal network is transferred as jumbo frames with MTU 9000, the largest possible packet size.
10x Extra Capacity
The standard level of overprovisioned capacity in the bare metal network is 10 times the average usage from the previous month. Capacity is increased continuously to beat this target, and we’ve never had a network congestion.