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InterLink self-hosted provisioning process

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This page concerns the provisioning process for self-hosted InterLinks only. For hosted InterLinks, provisioned via a partner, see the hosted InterLink provisioning documentation.

This document explains the steps in the provisioning process for self-hosted InterLinks.

Provisioning a self-hosted InterLink happens in two phases: first, establishing a dedicated physical connection between your router and Scaleway's router, then creating one or more InterLinks over that connection.

Establishing the dedicated physical connection

Before creating a self-hosted InterLink, you must first provision a dedicated physical connection. This process is handled manually by Scaleway teams. contact the Scaleway sales team to provide the following information:

  • The PoP location where your physical connection to Scaleway's network will be established.
  • The port speed: 1 Gbps, 10 Gbps, or 100 Gbps.
  • The Project within your Organization to host the physical connection resource. If none is specified, Scaleway defaults to your Organization's default Project.

Once agreed, Scaleway issues a Letter of Authorization (LOA) containing the meet-me room details and port assignment on Scaleway's equipment. You must provide this LOA to your data center operator (or carrier) to perform the physical patching.

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Billing for the dedicated physical connection begins once Scaleway creates the connection resource in its system, i.e., when the physical link is detected as active. This applies regardless of whether any InterLinks have been created over the connection, or whether traffic is flowing.

When the cross-connect is complete and the link is detected as active, the dedicated physical connection becomes available for you in the Scaleway console. You can then proceed to create InterLinks over it.

Once a dedicated physical connection is in place, you can create one or more InterLinks over it via the Scaleway InterLink API, the Scaleway console, or one of our other developer tools. When creating, you set the following parameters:

  • Connection type: Self-hosted.
  • Dedicated connection: The physical connection to use as the basis for the InterLink.
  • Bandwidth: The bandwidth to allocate to this InterLink. Multiple InterLinks can share the same physical connection, as long as their combined bandwidth does not exceed the total port speed.
  • Region: The region in which to create the InterLink. It must correspond to the region of the Scaleway VPC you want to later attach to the InterLink.
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Creating InterLink resources over a dedicated physical connection does not incur an additional Scaleway fee beyond the physical connection itself.

You can attach an InterLink to a VPC in a different Project than the one hosting the dedicated physical connection, as long as both Projects belong to the same Organization and region. This allows you to manage physical connections centrally in a dedicated network Project, while other Projects can use the InterLink.

After creation, the InterLink briefly enters Configuring status before moving to Ready status. See the statuses documentation for help with resolving any error statuses.

Demarcation Points

The Demarcation Point on the user side includes the Cross-Connect and ends at the physical interface (port) of Scaleway’s equipment. For Scaleway, the Demarcation Point is the physical port of its own networking equipment.

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