{"id":17891,"date":"2021-10-04T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/10\/04\/telstra-now-providing-direct-connection-to-microsoft-azure-peering-service-and-operator-connect-for-microsoft-teams\/"},"modified":"2021-10-04T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T06:00:00","slug":"telstra-now-providing-direct-connection-to-microsoft-azure-peering-service-and-operator-connect-for-microsoft-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/10\/04\/telstra-now-providing-direct-connection-to-microsoft-azure-peering-service-and-operator-connect-for-microsoft-teams\/","title":{"rendered":"Telstra now providing direct connection to Microsoft Azure Peering Service and Operator Connect for Microsoft Teams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>HONG&#13;<br \/>\nKONG SAR &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\">Media OutReach<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; 4 October 2021 &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telstra.com.hk\/\">Telstra<\/a> today&#13;<br \/>\nannounced it is a selected carrier for Microsoft Azure Peering Service, a&#13;<br \/>\nnetworking service that enhances customer connectivity, and Operator Connect&#13;<br \/>\nfor Microsoft Teams, a new programmatic approach to operator-provided calling&#13;<br \/>\nin Teams.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s&#13;<br \/>\nannouncement builds on the long-standing relationship between Telstra and&#13;<br \/>\nMicrosoft to help enhance connectivity to Microsoft cloud services and provide&#13;<br \/>\nan integrated calling experience via Teams. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With the ongoing shifts in the business landscape, networking solutions&#13;<br \/>\nfor remote workers and accelerating the migration of workloads to cloud&#13;<br \/>\nservices for business continuity have risen as top ICT investments for Asia&#13;<br \/>\nPacific businesses<sup>[1]<\/sup>. In&#13;<br \/>\nthe future workplace, global&#13;<br \/>\nconnectivity and cloud solutions that enable telephony services are expected to&#13;<br \/>\nform the backbone for organisations looking to streamline their operations.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft Azure&#13;<br \/>\nPeering Service provides reliable and optimised internet connectivity to&#13;<br \/>\nMicrosoft cloud services such as Microsoft 365, Microsoft Dynamics 365, and&#13;<br \/>\nAzure. Customers can register for the offering in the Azure portal, and Telstra&#13;<br \/>\nand Microsoft will work closely to provide enterprise customers with&#13;<br \/>\nend-to-end, high-performing public connectivity with optimal routing in their&#13;<br \/>\nselected region. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This offering is integrated with Telstra <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telstra.com.hk\/en\/products\/global-networks\/global-internet\/global-internet-direct\">Global Internet Direct<\/a> (GID) to ensure robust connectivity service and secure access through a&#13;<br \/>\nsingle network. Additionally, customers will enjoy high levels of availability&#13;<br \/>\nof service and lower latency connections. Telstra is now&#13;<br \/>\noffering Azure Peering Service to customers in Asia, with plans to expand&#13;<br \/>\navailability to Europe and the United States next calendar year. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Building on&#13;<br \/>\nthe momentum from the launch of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telstra.com.hk\/en\/products\/unified-communications\/collaboration\/telstra-calling-for-microsoft-teams\">Telstra&#13;<br \/>\nCalling for Microsoft Teams<\/a> in August last year, Telstra has streamlined calling for&#13;<br \/>\nusers by providing a simplified and unified collaboration experience for&#13;<br \/>\norganisations through Operator Connect for Microsoft Teams. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This offering will&#13;<br \/>\nenable organisations to speed up and simplify the provisioning of telephony&#13;<br \/>\nservices and reduce deployment time by using advanced automation that&#13;<br \/>\nintegrates architecture components between Telstra and Microsoft. Additionally,&#13;<br \/>\nbusiness users will experience enhanced voice call quality through the use of&#13;<br \/>\nprivate network infrastructure and administrators will gain ability to provision&#13;<br \/>\nand manage telephone numbers via the Microsoft Teams Admin Center. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sanjay Nayak,&#13;<br \/>\nTelstra Executive of Fixed Connectivity Products said as organisations&#13;<br \/>\naccelerate their digital transformation journey, underlying technologies like cloud&#13;<br \/>\nand network connectivity need to work smoothly with reduced complexity. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Microsoft&#13;<br \/>\nAzure Peering Service provides direct access between Telstra and Microsoft&#8217;s&#13;<br \/>\nnetworks \u2013 providing users with robust connectivity service at a location&#13;<br \/>\nnearest to them, thereby reducing latency when accessing Microsoft&#8217;s workplace&#13;<br \/>\nservices. By leveraging Telstra&#8217;s connectivity and professional services&#13;<br \/>\ncapabilities and Microsoft&#8217;s focus on intelligent cloud services, we aim to&#13;<br \/>\nhelp organisations across the region and globally enable a modern work&#13;<br \/>\nexperience,&#8221; said Mr. Nayak.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Taimoor&#13;<br \/>\nHusain, Modern Workplace Strategy and GTM Lead for Microsoft said: &#8220;Telstra has&#13;<br \/>\nbeen a long-standing partner for Microsoft since 2008. With internet traffic&#13;<br \/>\ngrowing at an exponential rate, coverage has become critical for effective&#13;<br \/>\nvirtual collaboration. We look forward to tapping the breadth of Telstra&#8217;s&#13;<br \/>\nnetwork to build the modern workplace and enable more seamless collaboration for&#13;<br \/>\norganisations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Telstra is&#13;<br \/>\nrecognised for its Microsoft Azure expertise and is a Microsoft Gold Partner in&#13;<br \/>\nten categories including Cloud Platform, Cloud Productivity and Communications,&#13;<br \/>\nas well as a member of the Azure Expert MSP Program.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Please find more&#13;<br \/>\ninformation below on:<\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/news\/2021-10-04\/97343\/telstra-now-providing-direct-connection-to-microsoft-azure-peering-service-and-operator-connect-for-microsoft-teams\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HONG&#13; KONG SAR &#8211;\u00a0Media OutReach\u00a0&#8211; 4 October 2021 &#8211;\u00a0Telstra today&#13; announced it is a selected carrier for Microsoft Azure Peering Service, a&#13; networking service that enhances customer connectivity, and Operator Connect&#13; for Microsoft Teams, a new programmatic approach to operator-provided calling&#13; in Teams. \u00a0 Today&#8217;s&#13; announcement builds on the long-standing relationship between Telstra and&#13; Microsoft &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17891"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}