Azure express route secondary location in New-Zealand using Megaport provider

Question

We're working on designing the ExpressRoute DR strategy and looking to establish a new ExpressRoute connection circuit to the secondary location in New-Zealand.

Our goal is to create the second circuit in a different location to achieve the location isolation, while still using the same provider (Megaport) as the primary circuit, which is located in Auckland. However, based on the documentation here https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/expressroute/expressroute-locations-providers#global-commercial-azure, it seems that creating an ExpressRoute circuit using the Megaport provider is only possible in the Auckland region and not supported in other regions.

We would appreciate any insights on how to achieve this design with the same provider but by creating the ExpressRoute circuit in a different location in New Zealand.

Answer 1

Hi Bhaushan,

As you are aware ExpressRoute is designed for high availability and failover/DR strategy is good to pan out early in the design stage, if you terminate the primary and the secondary connections of an ExpressRoute circuits in different geographical locations, then you could be compromising the network performance of the connectivity I hope you have considered the performance and response times during the failover. So I believe Megaport might be having limitations in providing services , can you check different service provider to improve resiliency.

Also you can contact Megaport and see if they can provide the circuit in any other reqion as of now Microsoft Azure is only available in Auckland city in New Zealand so you will have to consider Australia as a closest secondary region .

Hope this helps.

JS

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