Galactic VPC

Datum is currently developing a global, virtual backbone service called Galactic VPC which will enable customers to leverage it for traffic routing and connections.

Datum’s Virtual Backbone Service

Datum is working to provide a global, virtual backbone service we call “Galactic VPC”. Soon, customers using Datum cloud will be able to create their own Galactic VPC and start to leverage it for traffic routing and connections.

Galactic is built using Segment Routing over IPv6 (SRv6), which allows us to apply advanced policy and traffic control to packets that travel through Galactic. Network devices process these instructions to forward packets along a specific path. Each instruction is an IPv6 address called a Segment Identifier (SID).

Using this capability, Datum can program traffic paths using the native IPv6 data plane built into all modern routers and kernels, without the need for MPLS. You can read more about SRv6 in RFC 8986.