June 20199 overseas is Carsales, Australia's largest online automotive, motorcycle, and marine classifieds business. Carsales turned to Telstra to find a solution to help its international expansion. By putting a multi-cloud infrastructure in place, Carsales was able to distribute its IT network internationally, significantly boosting operational efficiencies. With Telstra and Equinix in place, the Carsales operation has been able to gain better visibility of business operations across consolidated systems and can now directly interconnect its enterprise systems, cloud service providers and customers for enhanced performance. This is because SDN completely transforms the customer experience of networking, connecting to the cloud and other exchange providers, via automated, on-demand and near real-time provisioning, as well as consumption-based pricing for network usage. This flexibility allows customers to optimize their IT and expand into global markets with greater speed and control. The benefits of a multi-cloud strategy are vast but navigating the plethora of different vendors and eco-systems requires the right vision. It is our a mission to disrupt the traditional networking paradigm, helping businesses buildthe necessarily connected eco-systems to drive innovation and deliver new levels of efficiency and agility. CARSALES CASE STUDY & TPN · It acts as a multi-cloud management platform bringing all resources under a single umbrella.· Customers have turned to the Telstra and Equinix innovation to solve integration challenges. One such example of this is `Carsales' who looked to this solution to help expand its presence overseas. Telstra was already playing a critical role as the customer's telecommunications provider, as well as supplying TPN to enable flexible provisioning of bandwidth for short term spikes in customer demand Putting the right infrastructure in place has enabled Carsales to distribute its IT network internationally, helping drive operational efficiencies. With Telstra and Equinix, Carsales has been able to: · Gain better visibility of business operations across consolidated technology systems ­ including financing, registration, marketing, and price projections ­ to all its office locations. · Directly interconnect its enterprise systems, cloud service providers and customers for enhanced performance.· Telstra Programmable Network (TPN) has been delivering the potential of SDN in Australia and across other major cities in the world. Its recent API integration with Equinix Cloud Exchange FabricTM(ECX-F) expands the reach of its customers and increases the level of automation already present. Customers can now rapidly establish on-demand private connectivity to run hybrid-cloud workloads on AWS, Azure, Google, Oracle, SAP and many more Cloud Service Providers within the Equinix Ecosystem of partners globally. · Our world-first partnership with Equinix represents a significant step change in customer experience, providing a comprehensive list of cloud providers, and near-instant simple set-up. It empowers customers with greater confidence to deliver on their infrastructure strategy.· Simplicity ­ With TPN as a single platform for core network and cloud access, customers can greatly simplify their complex IT environments, while benefiting from on-demand, scalable, pay-as-you-go cloud and network services.CONCLUSION· TPN completely transforms the customer experience of networking, connecting to cloud and other exchange providers, via automated, on-demand and near real-time provisioning, as well as consumption-based pricing for network usage. This flexibility allows customers to optimise their IT and expand into global markets with greater speed and control. · Our mission is to disrupt the traditional networking paradigm, help businesses build the necessary connected eco-systems to drive innovation, and deliver new levels of efficiency and agility.
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