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Optus enters Melbourne co-lo market By Stephen Withers, 0 March 25, 2003 URL: http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/business/soa/Optus-enters-Melbourne-co-lo-market/0,139023166,120273135,00.htm
Optus has opened a new AU$1 million data centre at its Sunshine exchange in Melbourne's west. The facility allows businesses to locate their servers on the carrier's Internet backbone, reducing the cost of high-bandwidth links. Like other hosting centres, the Sunshine operation provides a secure environment for critical, bandwidth-hungry servers. Hosting options other than co-location may be offered at a later date. Ten new jobs have been created at the centre, which was opened yesterday [Monday] by Marsha Thomson, the Victorian Minister for Information and Communication Technology. "It will help place Victorian businesses at a strategic advantage, allowing them to lower costs and increase production," she said. Optus has an existing data centre in Sydney, while parent company SingTel has similar centres in Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. The new centre will compete with co-location services operated in Melbourne by Telstra, Connect, GlobalCenter and other companies.
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