Adam Gardner – Head of Products, NEXTDC.
Sydney, Australia – March 24, 2025 – NEXTDC, Australia's leading data centre provider, today announced the availability of 100Gbps ports for its AXON virtual (SDN/NaaS) cloud and data centre interconnection platform. This significant expansion enables organisations to harness the full potential of AI-driven innovation through unparalleled connectivity to NEXTDC's extensive ecosystem of clouds, partners and customers.
As the AI revolution continues to accelerate, the demand for low latency, high bandwidth, secure connectivity has never been more critical. The 100Gbps AXON ports allow customers to consolidate connections, simplify network architecture, and scale exactly when needed — all while reducing complexity and cost.
Accelerating Strategic Advantage in the AI Era
"The release of 100Gbps AXON ports now enables lower cost, higher bandwidth connectivity to more ecosystem clouds, partners and customers with lower complexity than ever before," said Adam Gardner, Head of Products at NEXTDC. "As the pace of innovation accelerates with new AI and HPC capability on an almost daily basis, the need for increased network capability increases with similar speed."
Scalability Without the Headaches
AXON's user focused self-service platform allows customers to:
- Scale bandwidth dynamically by the day
- Add elastic cross connects instantly
- Increase or decrease connectivity as required
- Configure multiple services from a single port allowing true hybrid multi-service network architecture
- Implement machine to machine API capability to scale quickly
With no minimum commitment and no long-term contracts, customers maintain complete flexibility while benefiting from AXON's robust resilience and redundancy.
Industry-Wide Impact
The 100Gbps AXON ports are already attracting significant interest from technology, mining, financial services, media, and government sectors. Organisations are recognising the value of scalable, high-bandwidth infrastructure that can support next-generation workloads — from reduced time to ingest AI training data to faster inference at the edge. The network flexibility aligns closely with Australia’s highest rated data centre network to provide the robust, resilient architecture required to grow organisations at unprecedented pace.
Scale up now
Scaling to 100Gbps and beyond in days rather than weeks? AXON enables customers to leverage a wide range of ecosystem partners directly including AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, IBM Cloud and many local partners ensuring the training and inference connectivity requirements are served more effectively than ever before.
AXON’s 100Gbps ports are available today from S1, S2, SY3 (Equinix), M1 and M2 with more locations being added over the next few weeks.
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