Wagga internet speeds to get boost from Leading Edge Data Centres’ $2.7m facility if approved
The man behind a development proposal for a $2.7 million data centre in Wagga says he can pull the region towards “quicker, faster, more efficient” speeds to close the gap with the city. Find out how.
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A bold proposal for a $2.7 million high-tech data centre is promosing to deliver faster internet speeds and better network access is approved.
A development application for the telecommunications facility, proposed for the former Charles Sturt University campus at Turvey Park by Leading Edge Data Centres, has been lodged with Wagga Council.
The centre is projected to provide quicker, faster, more efficient internet speeds, and will have a positive impact for residents within a 300km radius around Wagga, according to the DA documents.
Leading Edge has already successfully opened data centres in Newcastle and Tamworth and in October is opening a centre in Dubbo, then Albury, Coffs Harbour and Wagga are the next stages of their regional expansion.
Leading Edge Data Centres chief executive, Chris Thorpe, said the project would speed up internet connectivity and provide a platform for more providers and services such as ‘The Cloud’ to operate in regional areas.
“We are closing the digital divide which currently exists between regional and metropolitan cities, we will be bringing direct cloud access to all major cloud environments to Wagga which is an absolute game changer for regional businesses,” Mr Thorpe said.
“We have created a data centre network across regional Australia, meaning that businesses can safely house their infrastructure in our local Tier III data centre in Wagga, with their backups in Albury or Dubbo.”
Mr Thorpe said the idea behind the company was a gap in the market, where regional areas of Australia has been neglected in terms of connectivity.
“The data centre will allow Wagga to become much more independent for its communication needs because it streamlines its dependency on Sydney metropolitan,” Mr Thorpe said.
“How it works is that we provide the data centre facility and high speed connectivity to multiple telcos, while our clients bring in their physical hardware and software to create their own private cloud environments.
“This means that businesses can access multiple cloud environments locally, without paying for expensive connectivity back to Sydney as it also enables local IT Services companies to provide new and innovative solutions to their customers.”
“Take, for example, Netflix or other streaming services – if that content is cached or housed locally and streamed locally, then you’re no longer trying to pull a movie down a pipe from Sydney,” Mr Thorpe said.
The development includes three proposed buildings which would operate 24/7 unstaffed, requiring a weekly service for maintenance purposes.
If approved by the council, the company plans to have the centre opened by 2022.
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