Megaport promises Singapore a premium fibre optic network at half the price

Megaport has announced the rollout of a S$20 million phase of a high-speed dark fibre* network in Singapore over the next six to 12 months that will enable organisations to connect between multiple data centres for data intensive services, such as disaster recovery, cloud and mission critical applications. 

Megaport’s dark fibre network is designed to offer telecommunications carrier grade infrastructure services at a highly competitive price point for premium bandwidth availability. Carriers and enterprise customers will have direct access to the high bandwidth potential of fibre optic networks at less than half the cost of similar services currently available in the Singapore market. The network will also underpin Megaport’s managed network in Singapore.

"Organisations in Singapore are generating and consuming ever-increasing amounts of data at rates never envisaged years ago, leading to huge demand for high-speed bandwidth to connect to data centres for disaster recovery or mission critical applications,” said Bevan Slattery, Chief Executive Officer of Megaport. “While the Next Generation National Broadband Network (NGNBN) is an excellent platform for the delivery of broadband services to homes and businesses, many of the carrier and enterprise clients need specialised, dedicated higher bandwidth services.

“Until today, however, access to dark fibre networks in Singapore has been expensive for organisations, forcing many to connect using managed network alternatives rather than using dark fibre. This has provided us with a significant opportunity to enter the market and rollout our own dark fibre network at a more competitive price point.”

Phase one of the dark fibre network will begin with a connection between two Megaport locations in Singapore. Subsequent phases, which could see Megaport invest between S$40 and S$50 million in the network over the next three years, will focus on adding additional data centres and cable landing stations, as well as creating physical diversity between sites.

Megaport has connected over 100 customers since its launch in Australia in July 2013. With strong demand expected to continue, Megaport expects to roll out 100 Gbps network interconnection services across the entire Asia Pacific region.

*Dark fibre refers to fibre connectivity that it not provided by the traditional communications providers in the country.