Can You Provide Me a Summary of What to Do to Get a Private Access to Open Telekom Cloud in General?

  • Create an architecture including physical links, VPC structure, IP address scheme, security and redundancy model

  • Inform your internal IT department and your Open Telekom Cloud administrator to check and be prepared

  • Decide what WAN architecture you want to use and which provider you prefer

  • Ask your provider whether they are able to support you with access to Open Telekom Cloud

  • Now you have a plan

  • Agree a contract with your network provider and see how long they need for implementation

  • Depending on the duration for the network part, start with deploying Direct Connect in your VPC

  • Also create PLAS with your preferred option for ports and bandwidth

  • Inform your security and IT departments that they need to set up config for eBGP on edge router/firewall

  • Check that the firewalls in your local network are open for the IP address used (your address space)

  • When everything is ready: check your connectivity

  • If ok: great; if not: open a ticket to find out whether the failure is caused by your external network or Open Telekom Cloud