Payments and banking rely heavily on a combination of internet and traditional network carriers; however, both routes are reaching their natural limits in a cloud-enabled world.

The internet has no SLA, poor QoS and a large attack surface. Traditional telecommunications companies have the SLA, but are slow to deploy, killing agility and economics.

Connecting cloud platforms securely requires a new networking model that marries the agility and economics of internet with the robustness of traditional telecommunications companies: private cloud networks such as MSFT Express route and AWS Direct Connect, available on demand via cloud exchanges across the globe.