Working with an Oracle FastConnect Partner

This topic provides information about connecting through an Oracle FastConnect Partner. This section is not relevant if you are connecting through Direct Cross Connects. After creating a virtual circuit, contact your Oracle FastConnect Partner account manager to order the service that’ll help you connect to your network using FastConnect Classic.

Prerequisites

Before you begin with this task, ensure that you complete the following:

• Create a virtual circuit. See Creating a Virtual Circuit. When you create a virtual circuit, a FastConnect ID is created to uniquely identify the virtual circuit that you have created. Note down the FastConnect ID as you have to provide this information to your Oracle FastConnect Partner account manager while ordering the service.

• You must be an existing customer of the partner IP VPN, MPLS, or data center exchange service which connects to FastConnect Classic. If you are not an existing customer of the partner service, contact your Oracle FastConnect Partner account team to order the service. See the following table for details.

• You will need network equipment as required by the partner’s service requirements to meet any prerequisites.

• You are responsible to provision any infrastructure or equipment as required by the Oracle FastConnect Partner for connectivity through their service to FastConnect Classic.

• Either your Oracle FastConnect Partner provides NAT and advertises public routable IPv4 prefixes or you’ll need to provide your own NAT and advertise public routable IPv4 prefixes over the Oracle FastConnect Partner connection. If your Oracle FastConnect Partner provides NAT, they’ll translate your IP addresses to a public routable IPv4 prefix that will be advertised to Oracle.

  If you are providing your own NAT with an Oracle FastConnect Partner such as Verizon, you are also responsible for the following:

  • NATing all your private IP addresses, if any, to your public IP prefixes.

  • Advertising public IPv4 prefixes, which are registered to your organization from a route registry, through your partner’s connectivity service.

• Only if you select public peering, you are responsible for providing the IP addresses of your servers (connection end points on your network) to your Oracle FastConnect Partner if you want to initiate connections from Oracle towards your network. Your Oracle FastConnect Partner advertises the provided IP addresses to support bidirectional connectivity.

• If you have configured for reverse NAT rule, to send data to your premises from Oracle Cloud, you are also responsible for providing Oracle with the public IP addresses of your servers (connection end points on your network). Oracle uses the information you have provided to complete configuring the network. If you have configured for reverse NAT rule, Oracle checks with your Oracle FastConnect Partner to verify that your RIR has been validated prior to completing the network configurations.

Contacting your Oracle FastConnect Partner

Contact your Oracle FastConnect Partner account manager to order the service that’ll connect your network to FastConnect Classic.

Partner	Prerequisite	Contact your partner to order...
AT&T NetBond for Cloud	You must be an existing customer of AT&T NetBond for Cloud and have an AT&T MPLS VPN in service. If you are not an existing customer of AT&T NetBond for Cloud, contact your AT&T NetBond account team to order the service.	AT&T NetBond for Oracle FastConnect
British Telecom (BT)	You must be an existing customer of BT IP Connect Global - MPLS IP VPN and have an active MPLS VPN in service. If you are not an existing customer of BT IP Connect Global - MPLS IP VPN, contact your BT Global Services account team to order the service.	BT Cloud Connect for Oracle FastConnect
Digital Realty	You must be an existing customer of Digital Realty to route traffic between your network and Oracle Cloud through Digital Realty Service Exchange. If you are not an existing customer of Digital Realty, you can contact the Digital Realty account manager to order the service.	Digital Realty Service Exchange
Equinix	You must be collocated in Equinix IBX Data Centers or you can connect remotely to Equinix IBX Data Centers through a network service provider. You must be an Equinix Cloud Exchange customer.	—
Megaport	You must be an existing customer of Megaport to route traffic between your network and Oracle Cloud through Megaport VXC for FastConnect. If you are not an existing customer of Megaport, you can contact the Megaport account manager to order the service.	Megaport VXC for Oracle FastConnect
NTT Communications	You must be an existing customer of NTT Communications Arcstar Universal One (MPLS IP VPN service) and have an active NTT Multi-Cloud Connect port. If you are not an existing customer of NTT Communications services, contact your NTT Communications account team to order the service.	NTT Communications Multi-Cloud Connect
Orange Business Services	You must be an existing customer of Orange Business Services, otherwise contact the Orange Business Services account team to order the service.	Orange Business Services’ Business VPN Galerie
Tata Communications	You must be an existing customer of Tata Communications, otherwise contact the Tata Communications account team to order the service.	Tata Communications’ IZO Private Connect
Verizon	You must be an existing customer of Verizon Private IP (PIP) services and have an active PIP port. If you are not an existing customer of Verizon Private IP services, contact your Verizon account team to order the service.	Verizon SCI Connectivity for Oracle FastConnect Select only one of the following as the SCI - Partner Service Description based on your network requirements. Oracle FastConnect Public Cloud: Specify this option if you want all traffic between your network and Oracle to be source NATed by Verizon to a single /32 IP address or a long range NAT pool IP prefix. This is the default selection. Oracle FastConnect Public Cloud with customer provided NAT: Specify this option if you will source NAT all your traffic to public IP addresses before forwarding it to Verizon. Oracle FastConnect Public Cloud Private peering: Specify this option if you want to advertise RFC 1918 IP addresses. Note: After you order the service from Verizon, you’ll receive network configuration from Verizon. Update the virtual circuit with the information that you receive. See Updating a Virtual Circuit.

For information about the connection speeds supported by your Oracle FastConnect Partner, contact your Oracle FastConnect Partner account manager.

The virtual circuit that you had created is listed on the Virtual Circuits page. To identify the next steps that you have to perform:

• Go to the virtual circuit that you had created. From the menu, select Summary. The Virtual Circuit Summary page appears. Complete the steps specified under the What's Next? section.

Complete the post-provisioning tasks. See Completing Post-Provisioning Tasks. Your Oracle FastConnect Partner and Oracle configure their network to route the traffic through the service that you have ordered. When the configuration is complete, the Life Cycle Status changes to Provisioned and the Virtual Circuit Status changes to Up.