Azure Networking

Typical application scenarios – Benefit from Telekom’s network expertise

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  Low latency for the best Microsoft Teams experience

  With the implementation of Microsoft Teams, employee collaboration and telephony are shifting heavily towards the Internet. Users expect good media quality and a reliable audio/video connection. That’s why it’s worth investing in optimising your own network infrastructure in advance.

  Telekom’s IntraSelect (MPLS) customers can ensure low latency and maximum performance for all Microsoft 365 applications, including Microsoft Teams, with the Secure Connect option – for the best user experience even on busy networks. IntraSelect Secure Connect can be set up in your MPLS network within a very short time (just a few days).

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  Data Centre Migration: Rapidly deployed broadband capacity

  Companies that want to close or consolidate their data centres can quickly and easily migrate entire server farms and workloads to Microsoft Azure with the help of Telekom. This requires high broadband capacities that can be provided at short notice. Telekom can achieve this in no time at all between local infrastructures and Microsoft Azure using Azure ExpressRoute and Telekom Cloud Connect.

  Optionally, you can consolidate distributed IT infrastructures in Telekom data centres and seamlessly connect locations via the Telekom network.

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  Fail-safe VMware connections for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BC/DR)

  It may be worthwhile to move your company’s existing VMware infrastructure to the Azure Cloud. This will allow you to benefit from the flexibility, scalability and fast deployment cycles of Microsoft Azure. At the same time, you can work on modernising your application portfolio.

  The Azure Cloud or Telekom co-locations can be used as locations for business continuity and disaster recovery for VMware farms. Azure ExpressRoute and Cloud Connect from Telekom offer robust, reliable and long-term connectivity for this purpose, ensuring optimal network connection between the local infrastructure and Microsoft Azure, as well as a fail-safe and powerful BC/DR environment.

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  App modernisation through Hybrid IT Environments

  Existing VMware farms can be replaced by a hybrid IT deployment with Azure VMware Solution and new VMware offerings on-premises on a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI). In this case, you can also benefit from the speed and scalability of the network connection to the Azure Cloud with the help of Telekom.

  Azure ExpressRoute and Cloud Connect from Telekom offer continuous connectivity for this purpose, which is necessary for hybrid deployment between systems and VMs – whether in your data centre, Telekom co-location and/or hosting on Azure, depending on the application requirements.

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  Accelerating SAP S/4HANA migration to Microsoft Azure

  SAP customers often face the challenge of limited network resources and outdated enterprise network architectures. However, network latency can have a significant impact on the performance of a company's SAP application. Therefore, achieving the lowest possible network latency is a priority.

  Companies planning to run SAP on Azure need to deploy high-performance, scalable hybrid multi-cloud architectures built on a secure and reliable digital infrastructure. Azure ExpressRoute and Cloud Connect from Telekom provide the private connection and basic infrastructure building blocks that SAP customers need to migrate to an SAP HANA environment. 

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  Cloud Infrastructure as an on-premises supplement for scaling workloads

  With a Cloud Infrastructure supplement, you not only get a more flexible hybrid architecture, but you can also establish a secure and private connection to a cloud provider. For example, you can use your servers in your data centre for pre-planned, reserved capacities. However, if you need rapid, short-term scaling, you can add a cloud provider. This allows you to distribute the load between the on-premises servers and the Azure Compute instances via a load balancer for the applications.

  The entire on-premises infrastructure can interact with any resource in the Azure Cloud by using Azure ExpressRoute and Telekom Cloud Connect between your data centre and the cloud.

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  Cloud Infrastructure as an on-premises supplement for data sovereignty and data analysis

  In your company, it may be the case that data storage locations and access permissions are subject to certain guidelines or restrictions. Due to these circumstances, you may not want to move your data to the cloud, but still want to use some cloud services.

  In this case, you can also use cloud infrastructure as an on-premises supplement. It is not necessary to route data traffic between the data centre and the Azure cloud via the public internet. Private and secure communication is ensured by Azure ExpressRoute and Cloud Connect from Telekom.