Back in 2019, UFONE identified a strong need to increase our capacity and resiliency connecting with cloud providers, content delivery platforms and their networks. Not happy with having just one or two Transit Providers to these networks, we joined both the Megaport Internet Exchange and NZIX’s Auckland Exchange so we were able to connect more directly to these providers and also to other ISP’s who peer on these exchanges.
The advent of COVID-19 has changed both our day-to-day lives and the way we work with the ever-increasing need of internet connectivity by our customers to run their businesses or work from home. This has made the speed, flexibility and adaptiveness of Cloud Computing and Web-Based services transform from ‘nice to have’ to true mission-critical.
UFONE Deploys Sydney PoP (Point of Presence)
As part of UFONE’s continual investment into its Network and Infrastructure, we’re pleased to announce the expansion of our network beyond New Zealand and into Australia with our first Australian PoP in Sydney, New South Wales.
Some of the more immediate benefits are already apparent, such as the reduction in RTT (Ping time) to most networks in Sydney with our average dropping by around 13ms, which should show a noticeable improvement in responsiveness in video calling, real-time collaboration and access to content-rich services.
We determined that approximately 80% of the cloud and CDN (Content Delivery Network) infrastructure that our customers access is based out of Sydney. Our new Sydney PoP gives us direct connectivity not only to the likes of Amazon’s AWS, Microsoft’s Azure and Oracle Cloud, but also with major Australian ISP’s and content providers. This leads to a greater quality of service and more visibility into how our network is performing.
UFONE’s Sydney PoP also opens up access to other exciting opportunities in the future, such as NBN access (Australia’s version of UFB) and allowing us to provide our customers with WAN connectivity spanning their New Zealand and Australian operations and offices, privately and securely.
The Sydney PoP along with the recent launch of our 4G Failover service ensures UFONE is ready and capable of providing New Zealand businesses with bulletproof unified communications and fast, reliable access to the internet.
Lance Hope
Network Manager
UFONE
If data connection to Sydney or the world is critical to your business contact UFONE now, to see how our Sydney PoP can maximise your business communications.