Macquarie Telecom has announced signing a six-year deal with Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN) company to provide telco and data services to business customers.
Calling the offering "Business class NBN by Macquarie Telecom", MacTel said it will include access to its data, internet, voice, and software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) business products; support staff based in Australia; and "coast-to-coast access to all sites in Australia".
Delivering these services will create 50 new jobs at Macquarie Telecom, the telco said, with the product suite utilising NBN's business-grade products such as asymmetrical (TC4), symmetrical (TC2), and enterprise ethernet across a virtual network-to-network (v-NNI) link that allows it to access all NBN points of interconnect.
NBN chief customer officer for Business Paul Tyler[1] said the company is hoping to form similar partnerships with additional providers in future.
"Our commitment to the business community has reached another milestone with the signing of a new multi-year agreement valued at more than AU$100 million with Macquarie Telecom," Tyler wrote in a blog post[2].
"This agreement will see us provide the underlying wholesale access network to deliver voice and data services to Macquarie's business customers.
"NBN Co's agreement with Macquarie is one we hope will be the prototype for what we can achieve in the future with other providers eager to serve the nation's businesses, whether they are small or large. It also demonstrates our underlying network infrastructure is enterprise-ready and we are well and truly open for business."
Tyler added that NBN will be launching its enterprise fibre broadband service with symmetrical 1Gbps speeds[3] later this year, and is continuing work on a wholesale business satellite service[4].
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