{"id":3101,"date":"2018-01-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-06-27T08:10:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T15:10:15","slug":"azure-expressroute-updates-new-partnerships-monitoring-and-simplification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/azure-expressroute-updates-new-partnerships-monitoring-and-simplification\/","title":{"rendered":"Azure ExpressRoute updates \u2013 New partnerships, monitoring and simplification"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Azure ExpressRoute allows enterprise customers to privately and directly connect to Microsoft\u2019s cloud services, providing a more predictable networking experience than traditional internet connections. ExpressRoute is available in <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/expressroute\/expressroute-locations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">42 peering locations<\/a> globally and is supported by a large ecosystem of more than 100 connectivity providers. Leading customers use ExpressRoute to connect their on-premises networks to Azure, as a vital part of managing and running their mission critical applications and services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"cisco-to-build-azure-expressroute-practice\">Cisco to build Azure ExpressRoute practice<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As we continue to grow the ExpressRoute experience in Azure, we&#8217;ve found our enterprise customers benefit from understanding networking issues that occur in their internal networks with hybrid architectures. These issues can impact their mission-critical workloads running in the cloud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To help address on-premises issues, which often require deep technical networking expertise, we continue to partner closely with Cisco to provide a better customer networking experience. Working together, we can solve the most challenging networking issues encountered by enterprise customers using Azure ExpressRoute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, Cisco <a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/erciscosupport\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> an extended partnership with Microsoft to build a new network practice providing Cisco Solution Support for Azure ExpressRoute.&nbsp;&nbsp; We are fully committed to working with Cisco and other partners with deep networking experience to build and expand on their networking practices and help accelerate our customers\u2019 journey to Azure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cisco Solution Support provides customers with additional centralized options for support and guidance for Azure ExpressRoute, targeting the customers on premises end of the network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"new-monitoring-options-for-expressroute\">New monitoring options for ExpressRoute<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To provide more visibility into ExpressRoute network traffic, Network Performance Monitor (NPM) for ExpressRoute will be generally available in six regions in mid-February, following a successful preview announced at Microsoft Ignite 2017. NPM enables customers to continuously monitor their ExpressRoute circuits and alert on several key networking metrics including availability, latency, and throughput in addition to providing graphical view of the network topology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NPM for ExpressRoute can easily be configured through the Azure portal to quickly start monitoring your connections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We will continue to enhance the footprint, features and functionality of NPM of ExpressRoute to provide richer monitoring capabilities for ExpressRoute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/dab31b6c-d9c9-44a5-863b-f99526e83c4e.webp\" alt=\"ExpressRoute1\" title=\"ExpressRoute1\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/d3f4be5b-3e50-445b-aa31-3715e17c703c.webp\" alt=\"ExpressRoute2\" title=\"ExpressRoute2\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Figure 1: Network Performance Monitor and Endpoint monitoring simplifies ExpressRoute monitoring<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Endpoint monitoring for ExpressRoute enables customers to monitor connectivity not only to PaaS services such as Azure Storage but also SaaS services such as Office 365 over ExpressRoute. Customers can continuously measure and alert on the latency, jitter, packet loss and topology of their circuits from any site to PaaS and SaaS services. A new preview of Endpoint Monitoring for ExpressRoute will be available in mid-February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"simplifying-expressroute-peering\">Simplifying ExpressRoute peering<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To further simplify management and configuration of ExpressRoute we have merged public and Microsoft peerings. Now available on Microsoft peering are Azure PaaS services such as Azure Storage and Azure SQL along with Microsoft SaaS services (Dynamics 365 and Office 365). Access to your Azure Virtual Networking remains on private peering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/83057899-96a5-426a-8be6-ca4ef77ea1b3.webp\" alt=\"ExpressRoute with Microsoft peering and private peering\" title=\"ExpressRoute with Microsoft peering and private peering\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Figure 2: ExpressRoute with Microsoft peering and private peering<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ExpressRoute, using BGP, provides Microsoft prefixes to your internal network. <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/expressroute\/how-to-routefilter-powershell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Route filters<\/a> allow you to select the specific Office 365 or Dynamics 365 services (prefixes) accessed via ExpressRoute. 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