Leaptel has truly struck a three-year, $4.5 million contract with Superloop that may definitely improve backhaul redundancy and get to throughout the nation.
The fast-growing retail supplier (RSP) will definitely 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 agency said.
Some Leaptel shoppers in Victoria skilled plenty of sudden interruptions final month because of fiber cuts.
Leaptel said it might definitely transfer its current shoppers “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 said.
It included that it’s moreover scaling up backhaul to organize “for the much-anticipated arrival of multi-gigabit [NBN] services in September 2025.”
Superloop CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Paul Tyler said collaborations, such because the one with Leaptel, “are key to our vision of the challenger segment of the telco market taking a collective 30 percent market share.”
