High-Bandwidth Access to Private Apps
If your organization has network presence in a Colo and you are
leveraging Colo facilities to build private connectivity to the apps that are
hosted on-premise, in the public cloud, or both,
Prisma Access can become part
of that Colo infrastructure via Colo-Connect. You can configure Colo-Connect
with either a
dedicated or
partner interconnect provided by GCP
to get up to 20 Gbps throughput per region for private app access.
For example, you have one or more data centers or headquarters locations that
have direct connectivity to the Colo, and you want to connect to Prisma Access
for high-bandwidth, secure private app access. In this case, you could use a
partner interconnect with Prisma Access Colo-Connect to provide users secure
access to the apps. Since the equipment in the Colo is peered to the public
cloud as well as your data center, you could also provide access to any private
apps that are hosted in the public cloud.
Colo-Connect coexists with the existing IPSec tunnel-based service connections,
so if you have a need to provide private app access to smaller data centers that
don’t require high-bandwidth, multi-gigabit throughput, you could also use
service connections to those data centers. You can configure service connections
using BGP routing to make your network compatible with service connections and
Colo-Connect connections.