Colt Cloud prioritization for Microsoft 365

Colt Cloud Prioritization enables your company to optimize access to Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365. The easiest way to explain how this works is with two examples:

Use of Microsoft without prioritization

Your company’s internet connection first goes via your chosen provider, any third-party providers and then to the Microsoft Cloud. It quickly becomes clear that this is inefficient. The problems are:

• High latencies
• Use of public IP addresses
• missing deterministic path
• Possibility of DOS attacks

Colt Cloud prioritization with Microsoft 365

In cooperation with Colt, we use Microsoft’s own cloud prioritization and combine it with Microsoft’s Azure Peering Service: Your company’s internet connection is provided by Colt, runs only via your own network and has a direct connection to Microsoft and its Azure platform. You can set yourself how much bandwidth and what priority you assign to the individual Microsoft applications. For example, Microsoft Teams receives higher prioritization as telephony than Sharepoint. The advantages are obvious:

• Direct connection between Colt and Microsoft
• Powerful private peering architecture
• Packet prioritization by CPE / PE
• Lower latency times guaranteed by SLAs!

Colt guarantees that no more data will be routed via third-party providers. A maximum network delay of 30 ms to the next peering location is guaranteed in the SLA. With the optimized cloud prioritization solution, you benefit from an optimal user experience for your Microsoft SaaS applications.

Conclusion

The solution is currently the most sophisticated for making optimum use of Microsoft 365 in the company without compromising on security. Colt is directly connected to the Microsoft Cloud at 17 locations across Europe (without third-party ISPs). This solution is a cost-effective strategy, especially if you have a large number of employees or several locations accessing a Microsoft 365 system. Are you interested or do you need more information about cloud prioritization? Feel free to contact us, we will advise you free of charge.