Hello to our amazing Customers- Can you believe it's almost April, better yet, almost Spring!? Time is flying and our SDN team is hard at work in coordination with the AKS Hybrid team.  The 3-15-23 AKS Hybrid release includes a ... continue reading

Hello everyone, I’m Basel Kablawi, PM on the Azure Edge and Platform - Core Networking team, here to announce the latest updates to the physical network switch requirements!  Our ecosystem of physical switches is designed to help ensure the compatibility and ... continue reading

You're an Azure Stack HCI Administrator and you've worked tirelessly to test your clusters and get them ready for production; you've filled out the necessary paperwork, you've gotten sign-off from all the stakeholders; and now it's time to implement your ... continue reading

A warm 2023 “Hello” to our Customers and Partners! Today is an exciting day as we share with each of you the extensive new features and improvements for SDN in Windows Admin Center 2211 (WAC)!  We cannot thank you enough ... continue reading

If you run workloads in Azure you’ve no doubt come across Accelerated Networking. Accelerated Networking greatly improves network performance by lowering latency, jitter, and host CPU consumption. To leverage these benefits, Accelerated Networking is enabling SR-IOV for your virtual machine ... continue reading

We’re excited to announce the release of Network HUD - A new feature that proactively identifies and remediates operational networking issues on Azure Stack HCI. Network HUD is available in the November update for both 21H2 and 22H2 Azure Stack ... continue reading

In our first article we introduced Network HUD as a new feature that proactively identifies and remediates operational networking issues on Azure Stack HCI. We also discussed Network HUD’s unique on-premises cloud-service model which enables us to bring new features ... continue reading

Our SDN and AKS engineering teams are so excited to announce General Availability based on customer feedback to enable SDN as the best place to host your AKS workloads on HCI.  This enables consistency with Azure Kubernetes Service for true ... continue reading

LEDBAT is the background data transfer product built into the Windows networking stack and recommended by the Windows Data Transport team for moving bulk data without interfering with foreground traffic. LEDBAT has a couple of advantages that make it our ... continue reading

Improving performance has always been a major goal for MsQuic. Recently, we have put in a lot of effort into getting ultra-low latency with MsQuic. We have prototyped a fully functioning XDP data path for MsQuic to bypass Windows TCP/IP ... continue reading