Diversifying the telecommunications supply chain with Open RAN

By Dustin Ward

Over the past few years, there has been an increasingly steady drumbeat for the need to diversify and open the telecommunications supply chain. This has been driven both by security concerns and by the need to improve the negotiating power of operators by introducing new entrants into the market. A key part of this supply…

Introducing the new Azure Front Door: Reimagined for modern apps and content

By Dustin Ward

This blog has been co-authored by Jessie Jia, Senior Program Manager, Azure Networking and Gunjan Jain, Principal Program Manager, Azure Networking. In 2019, we launched Azure Front Door to bring enterprise-grade content delivery network (CDN) capabilities to our customers. This was a result of our own cloud journey over the past 13 years, which led…

Manage port forwarding for backend pool with Azure Load Balancer

By Dustin Ward

Starting today, Azure Load Balancer enables customers to manage port forwarding for Virtual Machine Scale Sets or a group of virtual machines in a backend pool with a single set-up with minimum management overhead. What is port forwarding? Port forwarding lets you connect to specific virtual machines by using the Load Balancer frontend IP address…