Changing Perspectives on Data Center Interconnect

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1 Changing Perspectives on Data Center Interconnect Tuesday, 23 January By Eric Wilcox, Vice President Engineering of Global Solutions at Vertiv

2 VERTIV by the Numbers SALES $4.4B EMPLOYEES ~20,000 CUSTOMERS INCLUDE America Movil, AT&T, China Mobile, Ericsson, Facebook, Microsoft, Reliance, Verizon Offering Geography End Market 16% 17% 28% 39% Power Mgmt Services Infrastructure Mgmt & Solutions Thermal Mgmt 5% 4% 18% 28% 45% US & Canada Asia Europe Latin America Middle East / Africa 18% 21% 61% Data Centers Communications Commerical & Industrial Broad range of power, thermal, and infrastructure management portfolio Global, well-established footprint and supply-chain network Serve vital applications in data centers, communication networks, and commercial/industrial environments

3 HOW IT ALL COMES TOGETHER Thermal Management Power Management IT Management

4 Global Solutions We believe that mass-customized, standard solutions offer you the ideal combination of best value and rapid delivery. Our factory-integrated (engineered, configured, tested, and commissioned) solutions offer you a low risk, high value global solution that can be rapidly delivered and integrated on site

5 Evolving Concept of Data Center Connectivity OLD - Data Center Assets as Islands with Big Pipe Connectivity to the Outside World Inbound & Outbound (only) traffic via public-facing Internet Service delivery quality dependent on factors outside of asset owner s control Asset reliability impacts uptime Hardware disruption/outage causes complete service failure, disaster recovery as data backup only Edge Asset Public Connectivity Dedicated Connectivity Disaster Recovery Data Center Public Internet

6 Evolving Concept of Data Center Connectivity NEW Mesh of Data Center Assets with Dedicated Connectivity among Regions Traffic between assets dwarfs traffic to/from public-facing Internet Continual optimization, replication, caching, and routing of services provides seamless service delivery to users Asset resiliency affects service delivery Individual asset failure cause service quality degradation, impacting business performance long term outages cause customer flight. Edge Asset Public Connectivity Dedicated Connectivity Disaster Recovery Data Center Public Internet

7 Data Center Interconnect Critical to Cloud When connectivity is key, businesses need: Dedicated, cost-effective capacity Reliable and resilient connectivity Global consistency Resiliency through diversified routes and asset locations can be achieved, but facilities enabling connectivity still must be individually reliable yet simple to deploy.

8 When Connectivity is Critical to the Strategy New Regions & Availability Zones Global consistency Reliable partners Reliable infrastructure Rapid & Flexible Expansion Modular designs Prefabricated / pre-integrated / pre-tested Delivery scale Challenging Locations Offsite fabrication Partner selection Service network

9 Key Takeaways When deploying critical connectivity links: Think about how you manage for repeatable, reliable infrastructure globally Examine standardizing where appropriate, customizing where necessary Consider long term service and maintenance for the life of the asset while ensuring scalability and

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