Requesting a Connection¶
Scenarios¶
Connect your on-premises data center to your VPC using Direct Connect if cloud servers in your VPC need to communicate with your on-premises servers.
Procedure¶
Collect the information listed in Table 1.
Table 1 Information required for requesting a connection¶ Parameter
Description
Example Value
Domain Name
Your account name.
Hover the cursor over the username in the upper right corner and select My Credentials from the drop-down list.
On the My Credentials page, view the Domain Name.
abc123
Project ID
Project ID. Perform the following operations to obtain the project ID.
Hover the cursor over the username in the upper right corner and select My Credentials from the drop-down list.
In the lower part of the My Credentials page, locate the project.
View the project ID.
f9578ed9f9b1496da3ddf4ad29ccd891
Provider
The carrier that provides the connection.
others
Region
Region where the connection is created. Perform the following steps to view the region.
Log in to the management console.
Check the information in the upper left corner.
The part in the red box is the region.
Figure 1 Region¶
eu-ch2
Location
Location where the connection will be terminated.
location
Port Type
Port type. The value can be 1GE or 10GE.
1GE or 10GE
Bandwidth
Bandwidth of the connection, in Mbit/s.
If Port Type is set to 1GE, the bandwidth ranges from 2 Mbit/s to 1,000 Mbit/s.
If Port Type is set to 10GE, the bandwidth ranges from 2 Mbit/s to 10,000 Mbit/s.
100 Mbit/s
Name
Connection name. The name can contain a maximum of 64 characters. Only letters, digits, underscores (_), and hyphens (-) are allowed.
directconnect-001
Submit a request using any of the following methods:
Email: Send us an email with the title "Applying for Enabling the Direct Connect Service".
Hotline: Call us and provide the collected information to our customer service.
Contact our sales representative and provide the collected information to our sales representative.
Wait for the notification of the result from the email, customer service, or sales.