This whitepaper is for historical reference only. Some content might be outdated and some links might not be available. # Overview Connecting the underlying infrastructure is an essential piece of every workload running on your environment. This makes a redundant, highly available, and fault tolerant network architecture one of the top priorities for every organization. Every workload you run in the cloud or within an on-premises environment requires connectivity between different resources. For example, servers, firewalls, edge routers, gateways and more. Having a strong networking foundation and planning ahead on the underlying network helps organizations to deploy, manage, and establish controls on the network. Networking plays a critical role in the way organizations address their growing infrastructure needs, regional expansions, and redundancy plans. You can design, configure, and manage a cloud network to establish connectivity between your cloud, on-premises, and hybrid workloads.