Help Center/ Cloud Connect/ User Guide/ Global Connection Bandwidths/ Buying a Global Connection Bandwidth
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Buying a Global Connection Bandwidth

Scenarios

This section describes how to buy a global connection bandwidth for communication over the backbone network.

Procedure

  1. Go to the Create Global Connection Bandwidth page.
  2. Configure the parameters based on Table 1.
    Table 1 Parameters required for buying a global connection bandwidth

    Parameter

    Setting

    Example Value

    Billing Mode

    Mandatory

    Pay-per-use: a postpaid subscription. You are charged based on the usage duration of the global connection bandwidth. The usage of a global connection bandwidth is calculated by the second but billed by hour. If the usage is less than an hour, you are billed based on the actual duration.

    Pay-per-use

    Bandwidth Name

    Mandatory

    Enter the name of the bandwidth. The name:
    • Must contain 1 to 64 characters.
    • Can contain letters, digits, underscores (_), hyphens (-), and periods (.).

    bandwidth-test

    Enterprise Project

    Mandatory

    Selects an enterprise project by which cloud resources and members are centrally managed.

    default

    Bandwidth Type

    Mandatory

    Select a bandwidth type. There are different types of global connection bandwidths that are designed for different application scenarios, including multi-city, geographic-region, and cross-geographic-region bandwidths. The type of a bandwidth cannot be changed once it is created.

    For details, see Global Connection Bandwidth Overview.

    You can decide whether to use a geographic-region bandwidth or cross-geographic-region bandwidth based on service scenarios.

    If you select a geographic-region, cross-geographic-region, or HomeZones bandwidth, you also need to select geographic regions and specify the regions that need to communicate with each other.

    Geographic-region

    Billed By

    Mandatory

    The price of a global connection bandwidth varies by its size.

    • After a bandwidth is purchased, the billing starts immediately regardless of whether the bandwidth is used.
    • If a bandwidth is no longer required, delete it in a timely manner to avoid unnecessary fees.

    Bandwidth

    Bandwidth

    Mandatory

    Select the bandwidth, in Mbit/s.

    100
  3. Click Next.
  4. Confirm the configurations and click Submit.

    The global connection bandwidth list page is displayed.

  5. In the global connection bandwidth list, view the status of the bandwidth.

    If the bandwidth status becomes Normal, the purchase is successful.