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Cloud Express™Optimize Your Business & Cloud Networks

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• Leveraging cloud providers for performance & scalability

Your Business Opportunity

Your business challenges

Security of connectivity to workloads in the cloud

Application performance with 3rd party clouds

Cost of connecting to 3rd party cloud provider

Creating a private hybrid cloud environment

Complexity of managing connections to multiple cloud providers

Availability and redundancy of cloud connections

Ability to scale rapidly and add new cloud services

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• Your private MPLS network provides a secure, high-performance connection to leading cloud service providers.

• Simply connect all your network locations to create your own hybrid cloud environment.

Cloud Express™ Service Definition

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Cloud Express™ Node Architecture

• Based on EarthLink MPLS Node Reference Architecture

• Redundant, High-Availability design• No Single Points of Failure

• Link Aggregation (LAG)• Scalable with SDN-like provisioning• Managed by EarthLink

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Guarantee application

performance with highly available and redundant connections to cloud providers

Connect to cloud services on a

private network isolated from the

Internet.

Flexibility to quickly scale bandwidth to

optimize cloud workloads and minimize cost.

Remove the complexity and

burden of management and redirect resources

to strategic initiatives.

Delivers Business Value

Improve Cloud

Performance

Deliver Application

Security

Cost Effective

Focus on Innovation

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Key Features – Cloud Express

Connections to Leading Cloud Providers

• Available now: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure (including Office 365), IBM SoftLayer and Cloud Sigma

• East and West Coast connections

• Other SaaS and IaaS providers coming

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Reliable & Fast Connections• Fully redundant connection — no single point of failure

• High performance on a private MPLS connection for lower latency

• No Internet bottlenecks2

Secure Connection

• Utilizes MPLS traffic segregation protocols

• Isolated from Internet threats — Denial of Service and others

• Cloud Firewall option to protect intrusion through the cloud provider3

Easy to Deploy & Operate

• Virtual Network Circuits quickly provisioned and easily scalable – no access costs

• Managed by EarthLink — no internal resources required

• Full implementation support – including BGP configuration

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myLink Portal • Complete visibility with customizable dashboards

• View Cloud Express virtual connection status and utilization5

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• A single pane of glass• A customizable app

– Personalize User Interface– Build Your Own Dashboards– You set what you see on your

dashboard– You set how your locations are

displayed– You set your level of security

• View Cloud Express Virtual Network Connections and Utilization

Network Visibility

More than a Tool You’re Given, it’s a Tool You Create

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Right Size Your Network

Move Workloads to the Cloud

Improve Application Performance

Lower Your Burden of Management

Protect Your Brand

Customize your MPLS/cloud solution to…

• Network Diagnostics1

• Cloud Assessment• Cloud Migration2

• Application Performance Optimization3

• Managed Network4

• Cloud Express Firewall • Managed Security5

• PCI Compliance Solutions• Security Diagnostics • Compliance Diagnostics

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Let’s discuss further how your business can benefit from Cloud Express.

Helping you achieve key benefits

Brand Protection

Reduce CostsApplication Performance

Speed-to-Market

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