Leaptel has actually struck a three-year, $4.5 million contract with Superloop that will certainly enhance backhaul redundancy and get to across the country.
The fast-growing retail provider (RSP) will certainly make use of Superloop’s infrastructure-on-demand system for “virtual network-to-network interface (VNNI) backhaul to all 121 NBN points of interconnect (POIs), as well as intercapital ethernet services across Australia,” Superloop said in a statement.
Leaptel said in a LinkedIn post that the contract stands for “a giant leap to improve our network backhaul.”
“This means there will be a significant reduction in both planned and unplanned outages with greater redundancies in place so that if one path goes down for maintenance (or due to a fault), you’ll stay online,” the firm stated.
Some Leaptel clients in Victoria experienced a number of unexpected interruptions last month as a result of fiber cuts.
Leaptel stated it would certainly move its existing clients “to the new backhaul” obtained with Superloop “throughout November”.
“New services will be connected straight to the new backhaul starting early November.”
“Being one of NBN’s fastest growing retail service providers, we knew this move was necessary as we’ve seen increased network demand,” Leaptel stated.
It included that it is additionally scaling up backhaul to prepare “for the much-anticipated arrival of multi-gigabit [NBN] services in September 2025.”
Superloop CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Paul Tyler stated collaborations, such as the one with Leaptel, “are key to our vision of the challenger segment of the telco market taking a collective 30 percent market share.”
