Oracle FastConnect for enterprise cloud connectivity
Connect your enterprise infrastructure to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure through a private, dedicated route designed for mission-critical operations.
Cloud Connect by Flō Networks enables direct, resilient, and scalable connectivity to OCI.
Cloud Connect by Flō Networks for Oracle FastConnect
Oracle FastConnect enables enterprises to establish dedicated, private, high-bandwidth connectivity between their network and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
Cloud Connect by Flō Networks connects offices, data centers, manufacturing sites, and colocation environments to Oracle FastConnect through our private, scalable network, operated end to end.
Enable applications, databases, backups, analytics environments, financial systems, industrial platforms, and mission-critical OCI workloads to operate with greater stability, more predictable latency, and stronger operational control.
Private path to OCI
Private connectivity to Oracle FastConnect without traversing the public Internet.
Dedicated connectivity
Flexible capacity from 50 Mbps to 10 Gbps, depending on location and connectivity model.
High availability
Redundant architectures with dual virtual circuits for critical workloads.
Predictable performance
Connectivity to strategic Oracle FastConnect locations across the Americas.
Expert support
Monitoring and operation by AI-assisted expert engineers from Flō’s NOC.
Mission-critical design
Support for hybrid cloud, multicloud, and disaster recovery architectures.
Why connect to OCI through a private route?
When an enterprise connects to OCI over the public Internet, critical traffic may be exposed to congestion, unpredictable routing, latency variation, and limited operational visibility.
A private connection to Oracle FastConnect provides a more controlled route between your infrastructure and the cloud.
Key benefits
More predictable performance
Reduce traffic variability and improve consistency for latency-sensitive applications.
Improved traffic privacy
Keep critical workloads off the public Internet and move traffic through a private, controlled route.
Cloud scalability
Adjust capacity as OCI workloads, users, applications, and data requirements grow.
Business continuity
Build redundant architectures that reduce single points of failure and improve availability.
Stronger IT control
Gain greater visibility into connectivity between offices, data centers, colocation environments, and cloud resources.
Built for mission-critical cloud operations
Cloud adoption continues to expand across industries where application performance, availability, and data movement directly affect the business, including financial services, manufacturing, retail, logistics, healthcare, digital services, and enterprises with distributed operations.
For organizations running critical applications and Oracle environments, connecting to OCI requires a stable, redundant, and controlled network architecture.
Cloud Connect is designed for enterprises that need to:
- Connect corporate offices, data centers, manufacturing sites, or colocation environments to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
- Migrate critical applications to the cloud without compromising performance.
- Support hybrid cloud strategies.
- Improve continuity for digital services and business applications.
- Design disaster recovery architectures.
- Connect operations across the United States, Mexico, and Latin America with OCI.
- Reduce reliance on the public Internet for sensitive or high-priority workloads.
Why Flō Networks?
Cloud connectivity backed by owned infrastructure, expert operations, and cross-border reach
Flō Networks combines a binational fiber network, decades of enterprise connectivity experience, and cloud interconnection capabilities to design private connectivity solutions for Oracle FastConnect.
Unlike a generic Internet connection, Cloud Connect by Flō Networks is designed around the real operating needs of your business: site locations, application criticality, latency requirements, redundancy needs, expected growth, and cloud strategy.
Private network optimized for cloud
Connect your infrastructure to OCI through private routes designed for stability, performance, and scalability.
Redundant architecture
Design connectivity with diverse links, routes, equipment, and locations to reduce single points of failure.
End-to-end operation
Support the full lifecycle of your OCI connectivity, from architecture and implementation to monitoring and support.
Experience in critical environments
Operate architectures for business continuity, hybrid cloud, multicloud, disaster recovery, and latency-sensitive applications.
Operations aligned with global standards
Cloud connectivity requires consistent processes, monitoring, support, and operational controls.
Flō operates enterprise connectivity services in line with international security and quality standards.
Resilience should match the criticality of your operation
Flō Networks designs Oracle FastConnect architectures with the appropriate level of redundancy, route diversity, and operational protection for each environment.
Scenario 1: single site, single connection
A simple connection may be sufficient for non-critical environments, but it keeps single points of failure at the site, equipment, and link level.
Not recommended for critical production workloads.
Scenario 2: single site with local redundancy
Adds protection against equipment or link failure within the same site.
Adds protection against equipment or link failure within the same site.
Recommended for important workloads, but it does not protect against a full site outage.
Scenario 3: multiple sites with geographic diversity
Separates physical connection points to reduce risk from site-level failures or fiber cuts.
Separates physical connection points to reduce risk from site-level failures or fiber cuts.
Useful for business continuity, though each site should still be evaluated for local redundancy.
Access strategic Oracle FastConnect locations
Cloud Connect by Flō Networks connects enterprise operations with strategic interconnection points across the United States, Mexico, and Latin America.
Flō can design your connection route based on the location of your infrastructure, selected OCI Region, workload criticality, capacity requirements, and redundancy strategy.
For enterprises with distributed or cross-border operations, this enables OCI architectures with greater control, whether connecting from data centers, corporate offices, manufacturing sites, logistics hubs, or colocation environments.
- Equinix MX1, Queretaro, Mexico
- KIO Networks QRO1, Queretaro, Mexico
- Equinix MI1, Miami, FL
- Equinix DA2, Dallas, TX
- CoreSite LA1, Los Angeles, CA
- Equinix SE2 / Digital Realty SEA10, Seattle, WA
- Equinix DC2/DC11, Ashburn, VA
- Equinix SP4, São Paulo, Brazil
Use cases for Oracle FastConnect with Flō Networks
Hybrid cloud with OCI
Connect data centers, offices, manufacturing sites, or colocation environments with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure resources to operate hybrid environments through a more consistent private route.
Application and data migration to OCI
Reduce network uncertainty during cloud migrations, data center consolidation, or infrastructure modernization with private connectivity designed to move critical workloads to OCI.
Disaster recovery and high availability
Enable private routes to OCI for replication, backups, and critical system recovery, with redundant architectures designed to improve business continuity.
Multicloud with OCI, Azure, and Google Cloud
Integrate OCI into a multicloud strategy through private connectivity to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and access to native cloud interconnections in selected regions.
Oracle enterprise applications
Connect Oracle ERP environments, financial systems, operational platforms, and critical enterprise applications to OCI through a private, scalable architecture designed for greater control.
Oracle databases and data platforms
Integrate Oracle AI Database, Oracle Exadata, Autonomous Database, analytics platforms, and data-intensive workloads with private, stable connectivity designed for high performance.
How we implement your OCI connection
From architecture to operational monitoring
Technical assessment
We evaluate your sites, data centers, workloads, OCI Regions, bandwidth requirements, latency needs, security requirements, and continuity goals.
Architecture design
We define the connectivity model, capacity, routes, redundancy, virtual circuits, and high-availability architecture.
Implementation
We coordinate service provisioning, network configuration, and activation with the technical teams involved.
Monitoring and support
We operate the connection from Flō’s NOC, with support from AI-assisted expert engineers and performance visibility through our OHOS customer portal.
Elasticity as OCI adoption grows
We adjust capacity and architecture as your cloud workloads, data strategy, and business requirements evolve.
Design the right private connection to OCI
Move critical workloads to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure through a private, scalable route designed for performance, resilience, and operational continuity.
Flō Networks helps you define, implement, and operate the connectivity your business needs to connect offices, data centers, colocation environments, and cloud resources with greater performance, security, and control.
Request an Oracle FastConnect assessment with Flō Networks
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Oracle FastConnect?
Oracle FastConnect is an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure service that enables enterprises to establish private, dedicated connectivity between their network and OCI, reducing reliance on the public Internet for critical cloud traffic.
What is Oracle FastConnect used for in an enterprise?
It is used to connect data centers, offices, manufacturing sites, colocation environments, and on-premises infrastructure with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure through a private route with greater stability and operational control.
What is the difference between Oracle FastConnect and dedicated Internet access?
Dedicated Internet access connects your business to the public Internet. Oracle FastConnect establishes a private connection to OCI for critical cloud traffic, hybrid cloud environments, Oracle databases, enterprise applications, and workloads that require greater consistency.
Does Flō Networks offer Oracle FastConnect?
Yes. Flō Networks enables private connectivity to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure through Cloud Connect, with design, implementation, monitoring, and support capabilities for enterprises in the United States, Mexico, and Latin America.
What types of companies need Oracle FastConnect?
Organizations with critical applications in OCI, Oracle databases, ERP environments, distributed operations, hybrid cloud architectures, latency-sensitive workloads, backup and disaster recovery needs, analytics platforms, or high business-continuity requirements can benefit from Oracle FastConnect.
Does Oracle FastConnect replace my Internet connection?
Not necessarily. Oracle FastConnect connects your network to OCI through a private route. Your business can continue using dedicated Internet access for web browsing, SaaS platforms, email, user traffic, and other public services.
What capacity can I get with Oracle FastConnect through Flō?
Flō can design and implement flexible capacity based on the location, connectivity model, technical requirements, and OCI architecture required by your organization.
Does Oracle FastConnect improve security?
Oracle FastConnect helps keep critical OCI traffic off the public Internet, improving route control and traffic privacy. It should still be complemented by the appropriate security architecture, network segmentation, encryption, and cloud controls.
Can I design a redundant connection to OCI?
Yes. Flō can design architectures with multiple connections, routes, devices, or locations to improve resilience and reduce single points of failure in the connectivity path to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
Can Oracle FastConnect support disaster recovery?
Yes. Oracle FastConnect can support a disaster recovery strategy by enabling private, stable connectivity for backups, replication, and system recovery in OCI.
Does Oracle FastConnect support hybrid cloud environments?
Yes. Oracle FastConnect is especially useful for enterprises that maintain applications, databases, or critical systems in on-premises infrastructure and need to connect them with OCI resources through a private route.
What is a DRG in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure?
A Dynamic Routing Gateway, or DRG, is an OCI virtual router that enables a Virtual Cloud Network to connect with external networks, such as an enterprise on-premises network, through FastConnect or a Site-to-Site VPN.
Cloud Connect and Oracle FastConnect glossary
Oracle FastConnect
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s dedicated, private connectivity service. Comparable to AWS Direct Connect or Azure ExpressRoute, FastConnect establishes physical or virtual connectivity between an enterprise network and OCI without traversing the public Internet.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
Oracle’s public cloud platform, providing compute, storage, database, networking, analytics, AI, and other cloud services. FastConnect enables private connectivity to OCI.
Cloud Connect
A Flō Networks service that enables private, dedicated connectivity between enterprise infrastructure and cloud providers such as OCI.
Dedicated connection
A physical port dedicated to a customer at an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure FastConnect location.
Virtual Cloud Network
A private virtual network within OCI. A VCN can host cloud resources such as applications, compute instances, and databases. FastConnect private peering can extend an enterprise network into its VCN.
Private Peering
A FastConnect virtual-circuit model that allows traffic to move between an enterprise network and a VCN using private IP addresses.
It is commonly used for hybrid cloud, application migration, and disaster recovery architectures.
Cross-Connect
The physical cable that connects a customer or network provider with Oracle equipment inside a FastConnect location.
In the Oracle Partner model, Flō manages the connectivity required to interconnect its network with Oracle.
OCI Region
A geographic area where Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services are hosted.
Examples include Mexico Central in Querétaro, US East in Ashburn, Brazil East in São Paulo, and Chile Central in Santiago.
Redundant Virtual Circuits (Dual VC)
A resilience architecture using independent FastConnect virtual circuits to reduce the risk of interruption from a single connection failure.
With the appropriate BGP configuration, traffic can fail over between available paths.
PoP / Point of Presence
A physical network presence where interconnection services are enabled.
Latency
The time it takes for a data packet to travel between two points on a network. For critical applications, stable latency can be just as important as low latency.
Private Network
Connectivity that avoids the public Internet and transports traffic through controlled or dedicated infrastructure.
Route Diversity
A design approach that uses independent physical or logical paths to reduce the risk of disruption from a single failure.
High Availability
A connectivity architecture designed to keep operations running through link, equipment, or location failures.
Disaster Recovery
A strategy for recovering systems, applications, or data after a critical failure.
SLA
A service-level agreement that defines commitments related to availability, support, or service operation.
