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3 Key Features For Flexible Bandwidth In The Cloud

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It's all too common for limited bandwidth to negatively affect application performance.

Sluggish upload/download speeds and apps crashing are frustrating and time-consuming to diagnose and fix.

Leveraging cloud computing, coupled with a robust network connection, can alleviate your frustrations with bandwidth virtually overnight. Today’s cloud solutions are dynamic, so you can tap into the resources needed to support all the traffic on your network.

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If you want your business applications to be delivered with speed and quality, you need some control over your network connection and environment.

Consider private cloud solutions that allow you to leverage the power of software-defined networking (SDN). You can use SDN to manage your network bandwidth and boost it when you need it most. According to Network World's 2015 State of the Network Stu, 36% of organizations strongly agree or agree that SDN will radically change their network for the better.2

Level 3 now offers SDN-based network capabilities via Level 3 Adaptive Network Control Solutions for cloud. You'll have control of your cloud connection via end-to-end control of the network, so you can flexibly adapt your bandwidth to meet your business needs.

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More visibility into network performance allows you to monitor your bandwidth from end-to-end, so you will know how characteristics, like latency and packet loss, are affecting business applications.

01Visibility

Can you see how your network is performing?

With dynamic capacity capabilities, you can scale your bandwidth on demand. Make adjustments based on scheduled events, or utilization triggers, while only paying for what you use.

02Capacity

Can you adapt network resources to your workloads?

Whether you’re using mission-critical applications within the four walls of your business or beyond, you can get dedicated, flexible bandwidth from a private network connection.

03Utilization

Can you carve out space to avoid over-utilization?

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information sharing, and commerce.”1

Traditional networks have fixed capabilities, but the cloud offers far more flexibility, especially when it comes to bandwidth. Let’s go over three key features that provide flexible bandwidth in the cloud.

As cloud computing continues to gain popularity, just how important is flexibility in the cloud?