Network Connectivity Center

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Reimagine how you deploy, manage, and scale your networks.

Single place to manage global connectivity
Elastic connectivity across Google Cloud, multicloud, and hybrid networks
Deep visibility into Google Cloud and tight integration with third-party solutions

Network Connectivity Center Advanced Networking demo series with photo of speaker

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Configure a Network Connectivity Center hub to inter-connect distributed VPCs

Key features

Simple, flexible, and insightful cloud connectivity

Simplified connectivity

Network Connectivity Center offers the unique ability to easily connect your on-premises, Google Cloud, and other cloud enterprise networks and manage them as spokes through a single, centralized logical hub on Google Cloud.

Flexible cloud connectivity

Network Connectivity Center delivers a unified connectivity experience by allowing you to use Google’s global network, leveraging Partner and Dedicated Interconnects, Cloud VPN connections, and third-party router / SD-WAN VMs to transfer data reliably across on-premises sites, cloud resources, and other clouds (enabled through VPN connectivity).

Deep insights of your global network

Network Connectivity Center pairs seamlessly with Network Intelligence Center to deliver end-to-end visibility so you can monitor, visualize, and test the connectivity of hub-and-spoke architectures deployed on Google Cloud, on-premises, and other clouds.

Unified network security

NCC Gateway provides a consolidated security stack by enabling managed security service insertion, such as third-party security service edge (SSE), into your global wide area network (WAN).

What's new

See the latest updates about Network Connectivity Center

Blog post

Inter-VPC connectivity architecture patterns in Cross-Cloud NetworkRead the blog

Blog post

Routing in Google Cloud: Where can I send my IP packet from a VM?Read the blog

Video

Demo: Network Connectivity Center (NCC) VPC spokes Watch video

Documentation

Find resources and documentation for Network Connectivity Center

Google Cloud Basics

Network Connectivity Center overview

Get an overview of Network Connectivity Center—a hub-and-spoke model for network connectivity management in Google Cloud.

Quickstart

Working with hubs and spokes

Learn how to list, create, describe, and delete Network Connectivity Center hubs and spokes. You can also add one or more labels to a hub or spoke.

Tutorial

Connecting two branch offices using Cloud VPN spokes

This tutorial describes how to use a Network Connectivity Center hub and Cloud VPN spokes to set up data transfer between two branch offices.

Google Cloud Basics

Extend your on-premises network to Google with Cloud Interconnect

Learn how to use Dedicated Interconnect to connect directly to Google or use Partner Interconnect to connect to Google through a supported service provider.

Tutorial

Google Cloud Skills Boost: Networking in Google Cloud

A two-day class giving participants a broad study of networking options on Google Cloud in addition to common network design patterns and automated deployment.

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Use cases

Explore common use cases for Network Connectivity Center

Use case

Simplified data transfer over Google’s network

Network Connectivity Center enables connecting different enterprise networks together that are outside of Google Cloud by leveraging Google's network—providing enterprises instant access to planet-scale reach and high reliability.

Traffic between non-Google networks is referred to as data transfer traffic, which can occur using existing standard cloud hybrid connectivity resources such as Cloud VPN, Dedicated, or Partner Interconnect.

Network Connectivity Center enables data transfer between on-premises / non-Google networks as above. Network Connectivity Center unlocks the ability to do data transfer over the Google Cloud Network.

Use case

SD-WAN / router appliance integration

Network Connectivity Center is the center point on Google Cloud for enterprises to attach SD-WAN solutions. SD-WAN / Router instances deployed on Google Cloud can be attached to Network Connectivity Center using the router appliance spoke.

By integrating the SD-WAN solution with Google’s network, enterprises get a simple, reliable way to consume connectivity on demand while extending the benefits of the SD-WAN to Google Cloud networks.

A reference architecture demonstrating SD-WAN/ router appliance instance integration.

Use case

Multicloud VPN connectivity

Network Connectivity Center supports VPN-based multicloud connectivity at a global level. Network Connectivity Center can be used directly or in conjunction with partner solutions to deploy and manage applications that require simple, reliable connectivity when spanning multiple clouds.