Updated 2025-01-15

FastConnect: With an Oracle Partner

This topic is for customers who want to use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure FastConnect by connecting to an Oracle Partner.

For a summary of the different ways to connect, see How and Where to Connect.

If you instead want to use a network provider that's not on the list of FastConnect Partners, see FastConnect: With a Third-Party Provider. Or to use FastConnect by colocating with Oracle, see FastConnect: Colocation with Oracle.

For general information about FastConnect, see FastConnect Overview.

Getting Started with FastConnect

Learn and Plan

Before you start, walk through the planning in Before Getting Started: Learn and Plan. Also see FastConnect Redundancy Best Practices and Hardware and Routing Requirements.

You might also need to review information on how to use FastConnect if you do not own a Public ASN or Public IP Address.

The following diagram shows the overall process of setting up FastConnect with an Oracle partner. The tasks that follow are represented in the diagram.

This flow chart shows the steps for getting started with FastConnect

Also see the sequence diagram in To get the status of a virtual circuit.

If the BGP Session Goes to Oracle

If the BGP Session Goes to the Partner

Managing a Virtual Circuit

Monitoring a Connection

You can monitor the health, capacity, and performance of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure resources by using metrics, alarms, and notifications. For more information, see Monitoring and Notifications.

For information about monitoring a connection, see FastConnect Metrics.