Internode adds international capacity with Southern Cross

Gordon Peters
Friday, 12 March 2010 14:56

IT Industry - Market

Adelaide-based national ISP, Internode, has contracted for capacity expansion with long-standing partner, the Southern Cross Cable Network (SCCN), as part of a major upgrade of its international data links to the United States.

Internode managing director, Simon Hackett, said today the company has “lit up an additional 2.5 gigabits per second of capacity this week,” and will implement further planned upgrades soon, to reach a total of 10 gigabits per second of protected circuit capacity on the cable.
 
According to Hackett, the latest capacity expansion maintained Internode’s “commitment to keeping plenty of capacity in its network,” and he said the company was seeing “continued strong growth in customer numbers and wants plenty of headroom in our network to meet that demand.”

Hackett said Internode expected to further expand its protected SCCN capacity to 20 Gigabits per second by some time next year, to continue its capacity expansion, adding that the Southern Cross Cable proposition, “with the lowest latency to the US and fully protected circuit capacity is the highest quality Internet path to the US – hands down.”