By Chris Cabel, Senior Director, Global Cloud Solutions
With our latest enablements, you can use ExpressRoute Metro and Megaport to reduce downtime, improve latency, and protect your bottom line.
Downtime. Sunken costs. Missed deadlines. Compromised data. Poor latency.
All of these problems have one thing in common (besides the fact that they strike fear in the hearts of network architects) – they’re consequences of a network with poor resiliency. This is, simply put, the capacity of a network to maintain an acceptable level of service in the face of hardware failures, network congestion, malicious attacks, and more.
A resilient network will not only recover quickly from such issues but, in many cases, can operate as if the problems never occurred in the first place. It is no surprise, then, that companies are prioritizing resiliency in their cloud and networking setups. The benefits are numerous:
Microsoft Azure is rich in features to help you architect for network resiliency. ExpressRoute Metro is one of the latest additions to this feature set.
ExpressRoute Metro is your key to a more resilient, reliable Azure network. This service enhances reliability by offering increased private path diversity between on-premises networks and Azure, bypassing the internet to ensure consistent performance.
Think of ExpressRoute Metro as a high resiliency architecture of Azure ExpressRoute, designed with a pair of redundant private connections via two nearby edge locations within a metropolitan area (hence the name). Unlike Standard ExpressRoute which offers protection of one of the two connections within a single edge location only, ExpressRoute Metro provides protection against failure of an entire edge location. In Azure’s own words, “you can benefit from a dual-homed configuration that enables diverse connections to two distinct edge sites within a city.”
With ExpressRoute Metro, businesses enjoy more reliable and faster connections compared to typical internet-based connections, as well as higher security and better performance for their cloud services. Organizations can also significantly reduce their network latency and enhance the consistency of their connection to Microsoft cloud services.
“Delivering highly resilient connectivity solutions is our top priority. ExpressRoute Metro solution, with built-in high availability, stands as a testament to our unwavering commitment to our customers,” says Sudha Mahajan, Partner Product Management, Azure Networking at Microsoft.
Learn more about designing and architecting ExpressRoute Metro for resiliency.
As a vendor-neutral, private connectivity provider, our customers already use us for scalable, reliable, and performant ExpressRoute connectivity. Now, we have enabled ExpressRoute Metro in two locations—Amsterdam and Singapore. This allows us to support the “high resiliency” connectivity tier for an ExpressRoute network that can route through multiple sites in a metropolitan area. With this addition, we now provide all three resiliency options in locations where we have ExpressRoute Metro enabled:
With these new enablements and options, you can now tailor the resiliency of your Azure connections with Megaport to meet Microsoft’s SLA and optimize your Azure architecture, all while getting the added benefits of using Megaport’s Network as a Service (NaaS):
For customers keen on leveraging these enhanced resiliency features, getting started is straightforward. Microsoft Azure provides comprehensive guidance on configuring Metro ExpressRoute circuits through the Azure Portal.
For more information on configuring an ExpressRoute connection via Megaport, check out our Docs page.
As ExpressRoute Metro’s network expands, we plan to grow alongside it, so you can scale your more resilient Azure network well into the future.
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