DE-CIX Mumbai and Chennai enhanced with business-class connectivity for Microsoft services

Announcing the expansion, Sudhir Kunder, Country Director, DE-CIX India said, “India has officially entered the Golden Age, and all-round digitization is the only clear way forward. To empower SMEs, SMBs and other enterprises, which are the backbone of the economy, DE-CIX Mumbai and DE-CIX Chennai will now be able to meet their needs for better efficiency towards SaaS services from Microsoft, such as Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365 with the launch of Microsoft Azure Peering Services (MAPS).

“The unique single access port that provides peering and DirectCloud services will now also provide MAPS, which will serve as a key to their digital transformation efforts,” said Sudhir Kunder.

DE-SIX India Country Director said that the DE-SIX partnership with Microsoft reflects its commitment to improving the quality of the Internet and providing access to providers in the most direct and efficient way.

The Microsoft Azure peering service is a solution for providing highly reliable and optimized Internet connectivity to Microsoft’s SaaS services, including Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365.

In addition, the service also provides Internet latency telemetry and route monitoring along with security alerts against hijacks, leaks and any other Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) misconfigurations.

DE-CIX Chennai and DE-CIX Mumbai, the largest Internet exchanges in the APAC region, offer this service through their market-leading distributed interconnection platform. Once connected, SMEs, SMBs, Enterprises as well as Telcos, Data Centers and ISPs serving them, benefit from DE-CIX’s enterprise-class interconnection services to improve user experience for Microsoft SaaS services Can be