Fabric Geo Zones: When to Use it and What to Expect
The Challenge:
Organizations in government, finance, healthcare, and other regulated industries must ensure sensitive traffic remains within specific jurisdictions and complies with applicable regulations. This challenge extends beyond where data is stored to how network traffic moves between locations, clouds, and applications.
Today, customers often rely on public internet routes or cloud service provider backbones that do not provide deterministic routing evidence or granular control over where traffic traverses. This can create trade-offs between compliance requirements and operational flexibility.
A Better Approach:
Fabric Geo Zones provides a single, end-to-end capability that enables customers to enforce geographic routing boundaries for network traffic. Customers apply policy-based routing controls, such as keeping traffic within a specific country or region, helping support sovereignty and compliance requirements.
Fabric Geo Zones is delivered through new Fabric virtual connections that include sovereign routing controls, providing a straightforward way to implement geographic routing boundaries without requiring a bespoke networking approach.
When to Use This:
- When sensitive workloads require traffic to remain within a specific country or region, such as enforcing EU-only or in-country routing policies
- When organizations need additional assurance that network traffic will stay within defined geographic boundaries across cloud and interconnection environments