Aron Smith, Vice President for Interconnection Product [...]

Aron Smith, Vice President for Interconnection Product Management at EdgeConneX.

📅 December 3, 2020 - Global data center colocation services provider, EdgeConneX, has deployed Google Cloud Interconnect at its Portland EDC campus. The carrier-neutral Portland EDC now serves as a direct edge cloud on-ramp node from which customers can establish "secured, scalable and affordable" links to Google Cloud VPC networks.

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