Managed network services provider Telstra International has said it will add a third UK data centre to its growing footprint, investing several millions in a 10,000 square foot facility in Woking to augment its existing units in Cambridge and London.
The Australian headquartered company is perhaps best known for the Ethernet and MPLS network services that it provides to businesses in Europe, India, China and south-east Asia, off a fibre network that now stretches across 45 countries.
Over time it has added hosting and managed services, VoIP options and channels for video over IP services. The company also now offers customers the use of a Cisco-based telepresence suite out of its City of London offices.
EMEA CEO for Telstra Simon Vye said there were two or three factors driving business in Telstra’s direction.
He said, “There is a growing amount of trade between Europe and Asia, between Asia and Europe and between Asia and Australia, and an appetite for managed services, virtualisation and software as a service.”
He noted that the company had 1,500 UK customers, including the likes of the WWF and the online money site of Moneybookers, and operates its own network backbone in the region. There are around 230 UK staff working with Telstra International.
Telstra only publishes financial results as a whole corporation rather than breaking it down into its subsidiaries, Vye said, but revenues from Telstra’s Global Products range, including those sold by Telstra International, rose by almost 30% in its last financial year to 2009.
The new data centre, which will provide additional hosting space and is to due to open by the end of the year, will have connectivity to Telstra’s global Next IP network. Disaster recovery is delivered through fibre optic cable feeds between the other UK data centres.
