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name: framework-financial-services-satellite-architecture-connectivity-overview
title: Satellite networking overview
description: Properly setting up and managing your networking components is critical to building a solution that meets the best practices and requirements of the IBM Cloud Framework for Financial Services. You are at the starting point for learning how to complete the tasks for the Satellite reference architecture.
last-updated: 2024-11-19
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> ## Documentation Index
> The table of contents for this documentation set is at https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/framework-financial-services?format=markdown
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> Use these files to discover more information as needed.

# Satellite networking overview
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Properly setting up and managing your networking components is critical to building a solution that meets the [best practices and requirements](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/framework-financial-services?topic=framework-financial-services-best-practices&format=markdown) of the IBM Cloud Framework for Financial Services. You are at the starting point for learning how to complete the tasks for the [Satellite reference architecture](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/framework-financial-services?topic=framework-financial-services-satellite-architecture-about&format=markdown).
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## Next steps
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Walk through the topics for how to build out your networking solution:

* [Ensuring isolation between Satellite management functions and workload functions](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/framework-financial-services?topic=framework-financial-services-satellite-architecture-connectivity-management-isolation&format=markdown)
* [Accessing external resources from the Satellite location](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/framework-financial-services?topic=framework-financial-services-satellite-architecture-connectivity-to-external&format=markdown)
* [Workload operator actions through a bastion host](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/framework-financial-services?topic=framework-financial-services-satellite-architecture-connectivity-bastion&format=markdown)
* [Connectivity to IBM Cloud services with Satellite Link](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/framework-financial-services?topic=framework-financial-services-satellite-architecture-connectivity-to-services&format=markdown)
* [Consumer connectivity to workload resources](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/framework-financial-services?topic=framework-financial-services-satellite-architecture-connectivity-workload&format=markdown)