A statement from LEDC, a company that wants to bridge the digital divide of regional Australia, said it was rolling out a network of Tier III data centres to provide connectivity to Australians in regional areas who lacked digital infrastructure, had poor connectivity, and faced prohibitive network costings and lack of direct cloud access.
Cisco is providing technology that allows LEDC to deploy a network with 99.985% uptime that allows real-time alerts to be sent within two milliseconds of any issue.
The first such data centre is expected to open in Newcastle in February 2021, followed by another 10 in NSW. The second phase of the project will see 16 more data centres in Victoria and Queensland.
“We are proud to be providing the infrastructure which will power the network, as well as helping Leading Edge to grow their business through our sales channels.”
LEDC chief executive and founder Chris Thorpe said: “Having Cisco as a partner means that we know that we’re providing reliable, secure infrastructure to our customers to power our network.
"The network solution we’ve designed with Cisco means that we will be able to confidently support local SMEs through to hyperscale, intelligent edge deployments, distributed edge network and content deployment.”
