Megaport Marketplace Overview

Megaport Marketplace is an online hub where global service providers and enterprise customers interconnect. Service providers can showcase their brand, reach global enterprises, scale to new markets, and provide solutions for businesses worldwide. Enterprises can connect to a broad range of internet services, cloud providers, managed services, and many others.

Key features of the Megaport Marketplace include:

• Neutral and inclusive – Megaport is data center agnostic, meaning that customers can access the Megaport Marketplace and tap into services by some of the world’s leading technology providers without being locked to a single data center provider.

• Rapid and agile connectivity – Customers can find and connect to service providers around the world in minutes.

• Self-serve – Customers can connect with who they want and when they want to meet their specific business needs.

To browse the list of available providers, click the Marketplace menu item at the top of the Portal page.

To make your company available on the Megaport Marketplace, you need a Megaport Marketplace profile. If you don’t have one, you will be invited to create one when you go to the Megaport Marketplace. For more information, see Creating a Megaport Marketplace Profile.

If you have a Megaport Marketplace profile and it is private, you will see a message on the top of the Megaport Marketplace page. The message tells you that you can change your profile to make it visible to other customers.
Click the Edit Profile button to go to the Megaport Marketplace profile page.

You can hide this message by clicking the Hide This Message button and selecting a duration from the drop-down list.

If you cannot see the message, it means it has already been hidden or your profile is already available to the Megaport Marketplace.

To filter the Megaport Marketplace providers

The Megaport Marketplace displays a list of all providers in the format of functional groups, or a list. You can filter based on functional grouping, as shown on the tabs, or on any of the search criteria shown below the tabs.

To filter Megaport Marketplace providers using the Exchange tabs

The Exchange tabs on the search banner represent functional groups chosen on their profiles by the Megaport Marketplace providers.

• Ecosystem – This tab shows all the Megaport Marketplace providers.

• Financial Services Exchange – This exchange tab shows all the Megaport Marketplace providers that provide Financial Services.

• AI Exchange – This exchange tab shows all the Megaport Marketplace providers that provide AI services.

• Voice+Video Exchange – This exchange tab shows all the Megaport Marketplace providers that provide voice and video services.

You can use the Company Name, Provider Type, Rate Limit, and Country fields to further filter the entries on the exchanges.

• Company Name – Filter by name or character string to find matching companies.

• Rate Limit – Filter by the maximum possible speed of the Port.

  Note

  The speed does not reflect the actual speed for the connection, but only the maximum possible.

• Provider Type – Filter by the type of service. Each service type includes various sub-categories to allow more granular filtering.

• Country – Filter the providers based on the country locations of their Ports.

From the results, click a provider to go to their profile page.

The profile page displays information about the provider and a list of their port locations available for connections. You can create a VXC to any of these locations.

To create a VXC to a Megaport Marketplace provider

1. From the provider profile page, find the interconnect location you want then click +Connect.

2. In the New VXC Connection page, select one of your Ports as the source of the connection.
   

3. Click Next.

4. Complete the details then click Add VXC.
   The details will vary based on the service provider.

5. Click Review Order.

6. Review the Order Services agreement and click Order Now.

After you deploy the VXC, the provider will receive a notification of your connection request. The provider will be prompted to log in to their Megaport Portal account and authorize this request. After the provider approves the connection, the VXC will be configured and usable within 59 seconds.