NetActuate Expands Sydney Internet Exchange Presence with MegaIX Port Upgrade to 7Gbps

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 12, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- NetActuate, a leading provider of global network and infrastructure solutions, has expanded its presence in Sydney by upgrading its MegaIX Sydney port to 7Gbps. This enhancement provides customers with improved performance, increased redundancy, and greater capacity for low-latency connectivity across Australia and beyond.

As one of the largest peering exchanges in the region, MegaIX Sydney connects hundreds of networks, cloud providers, and enterprises, making it a critical hub for digital infrastructure. With this upgrade, NetActuate strengthens its ability to deliver high-speed, resilient connectivity for businesses leveraging anycast, bare metal, and cloud services.

"Sydney continues to be a key strategic location for NetActuate as demand for low-latency, high-performance networking solutions grows across the Asia-Pacific region," said Mark Mahle, CEO & Co-founder at NetActuate. "By expanding our MegaIX Sydney port capacity, we are ensuring our customers benefit from improved performance, lower costs, and enhanced redundancy for their applications and services."

Strengthening Sydney's Role as a Digital Hub

Sydney remains one of the most significant technology and connectivity hubs in the Asia-Pacific region, with an increasing demand for edge computing, hybrid cloud, and AI-driven applications. Businesses in industries such as fintech, media, and e-commerce rely on low-latency networking to provide seamless digital experiences to users.

This upgrade aligns with broader trends in the Sydney technology ecosystem, where organizations are investing in advanced networking infrastructure to support real-time applications, data-intensive workloads, and distributed cloud environments. With Australia's growing emphasis on cybersecurity, cloud adoption, and artificial intelligence, the need for robust, scalable connectivity solutions continues to accelerate.

Expanding Global Network Reach

NetActuate's Sydney data center location offers customers direct access to a growing ecosystem of peering partners, carriers, and content providers. The company's global network includes 40+ locations worldwide, with high-performance connectivity across North America, Europe, Asia, and Latin America.

Customers deploying services in Sydney benefit from NetActuate's global anycast platform, which enhances the speed and reliability of network traffic by routing requests to the closest available node. The expansion of the MegaIX Sydney port ensures businesses have access to the low-latency, high-availability network infrastructure required for modern applications.

For more information about NetActuate's services in Sydney, visit https://netactuate.com/global-edge/sydney-australia/

About NetActuate

NetActuate is a leading provider of highly available, low latency custom network and infrastructure services that reach every major global market. From the datacenter to the last mile, we help providers take their products and services to the global edge faster. Our customers can rapidly scale without fear of high costs or devastating performance issues. We built one of the world's largest global networks by number of peers, and it serves as the foundation for our performance BGP anycast platform that powers over 25 billion transactions a day.

To schedule a call with NetActuate engineers or learn more about our products and services, visit netactuate.com. To discover how anycast can boost reliability, reduce latency, and simplify architecture all at the network level, visit NetActuate's anycast resource site at anycast.com.

Contact: Mark Mahle, NetActuate, +1.800.419.2656

SOURCE NetActuate