Console Connect expands Azure ExpressRoute reach with new global locations

Console Connect has expanded its global footprint with five additional Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute locations, bringing the total to 16 locations worldwide. This significant growth gives customers even more options to directly and securely connect to Azure from strategic data centre hubs in key international markets.

New ExpressRoute locations include:

• Frankfurt, Germany - Digital Realty FRA11
• Frankfurt, Germany - Equinix FR7
• Ashburn, USA - Equinix DC2 and DC6
• Sydney, Australia - Equinix SY2
• Dublin, Ireland - Equinix DB3

These new locations are also critical regional touchpoints for multi-cloud occupancy, particularly for businesses leveraging Azure alongside other major cloud providers.

Whether you're operating in Europe, Asia, Africa or the Americas, Console Connect is helping businesses simplify and scale their private access to Azure, while meeting Microsoft's strict high-availability and performance standards.

Why redundancy matters with Azure connectivity

Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute isn’t just about speed, it’s about reliability. Azure requires at least two physical connections per ExpressRoute circuit to maintain its 99.95% uptime SLA. This dual-link architecture is essential to avoid any single point of failure.

Console Connect is built for this kind of resilience. As an official ExpressRoute partner, Console Connect:

• Provides redundant physical paths across its global network.
• Ensures diverse BGP sessions between Microsoft's routers and customer peering routers, even when using a single cloud exchange.
• Offers customers the peace of mind that their Azure traffic is running on a high-performance global network.

Global reach with local choice

By expanding the number of ExpressRoute on-ramp locations, Console Connect gives enterprises:

• More local access points to Azure, reducing latency and boosting performance.
• Greater flexibility for business continuity planning and disaster recovery by enabling geo-redundant deployments.
• The ability to leverage Console Connect’s global backbone to seamlessly connect more of their locations to Azure. This simplifies operations as connectivity is managed through a single trusted provider, rather than needing to rely on multiple regional partners.

Multi-cloud and hybrid cloud made easy

Modern IT environments rarely run in a single cloud. With Console Connect, Azure customers benefit from seamless multi-cloud connectivity, whether that’s to AWS, Google Cloud or other major providers, which is all managed through a single platform.

Our expanded footprint includes key strategic locations for hyperscalers, offering closer adjacency to leading cloud providers, making Console Connect a natural fit for enterprises running multi-cloud workloads. This proximity enables lower-latency connections across different cloud environments, which is especially valuable for latency-sensitive applications, as data no longer needs to traverse long geographic distances or cross regions, eliminating time delays and enhancing performance.

In addition to multi-cloud flexibility, Console Connect also simplifies hybrid cloud architectures by enabling secure, software-defined connections between on-premise infrastructure and Azure services. This level of agility is especially important for enterprises managing dynamic workloads or undergoing digital transformation.

Fast, flexible and secure connectivity

Console Connect’s intuitive portal and API allow users to provision and manage ExpressRoute circuits on-demand. This eliminates the delays and complexity traditionally associated with setting up private cloud connections.

Whether you’re running mission-critical workloads in Azure or architecting for the future of multi-cloud, Console Connect provides enterprise-grade security, predictable performance, and integrated monitoring to keep your data moving seamlessly across the cloud ecosystem.

If you’d like to learn more about how Console Connect can enhance your connectivity to Azure locations or require any additional information on multi-cloud connectivity, contact Sherlock Doris at sdoris@consoleconnect.com for a private consultation.