Optus Wholesale launches Ethernet over nbn offering
Optus Wholesale has added new nbn connectivity offerings for its wholesale customers, including Ethernet over nbn.
The company is adding enterprise-grade nbn offerings to allow wholesale customers to deliver broadband for business-critical and bandwidth-intensive Layer 2 and Layer 3 data and IP needs, including videoconferencing, wide area networks (WAN) and private VPN networks.
The new offerings include nbn access for Optus’s Evolve Internet and Evolve IPVPN enterprise broadband services, and complement the launch of Evolve Ethernet WAN services in December last year.
Optus Wholesale is offering connectivity to all 121 of nbn’s points of interconnect across Australia and is working on an Evolve Voice via Ethernet over nbn product.
Optus Wholesale VP for Sales and Marketing John Castro said Ethernet over nbn will allow the company to provide customers with the ability to offer enterprise-grade data services over the nbn as well as its existing fibre and copper networks.
“There is an increasing appetite to deliver more Business and Enterprise products across the nbn network and we are proud to have led the market with the delivery of these,” he said.
Castro said reports from the ACCC show that there were fewer than 2000 active TC-2 services — enterprise-grade Ethernet services with a committed data rate — in Australia as of March.
“Optus Wholesale expects to make strong inroads into this segment with this suite of products using [Ethernet over nbn] access,” he said.
“We welcome today’s announcement from Optus to launch wholesale business-grade broadband services over the nbn network and we look forward to working with them to help ensure that both their retailers and their downstream business customers have an excellent experience on the nbn network and enjoy the benefits of fast broadband,” nbn Executive General Manager for Business Ben Salmon added.
“Increased competition in the Australian telco market offers more choice for businesses in terms of price, speed and service provider.”
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