Dark Fibre

Australian Dark fibre on a network we built, own and operate.

Nexthop has built an extensive dark fibre network connecting office buildings and datacentres in Sydney / Melbourne / Brisbane / Perth

nextXC - Datacentre Dark Fibre

Month-to-month contract - $250 per month

$1000 setup

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Nexthop's presence

Over 200,000 ready to service business premises
Blanket coverage of major Australia`s capital cities
Over 30 Data Centres connected

Why Choose Nexthop?

Speed & Security - The Ultimate Control

Dark fibre provides the ultimate mix of speed and security. The customer has complete control and can dictate the point-to-point bandwidth and encryption requirements from end to end.

Bespoke Private Fibre Network Builds

Nexthop has extensive fibre construction experience and can customise a solution for the needs of Carriers, ISP's, MSP's, Large Enterprise, Cloud Providers and Internet Exchanges.

Wholesale Dark Fibre Network

Nexthop was built to provide its clients open access dark fibre infrastructure within Australia. Our footprint is in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth, where our clients enjoy access to our wholly owned, wholesale dark fibre infrastructure at market leading prices

Rapid Response & Prompt Delivery

Get your quote with KMZ within 24-72 hours. Fully controlled network with pre-provisioned fibre cores allows us to reduce the fibre delivery time from weeks to days. Clients enjoy 10-30% savings when switch to Nexthop Fibre Network.

NBN POI Backhaul

Get the ultimate backhaul into the NBN POI's.
Dark fibre backhaul from Globalswitch and Equinix to:
Dalley / City South / Glebe / Newtown

Connect straight to the cloud

Bypass the Internet and connect straight from your office into the major Australian datacentres via dedicated dark fibre.

What is Dark Fibre?

Dark fibre is networking, done your way, for maximum speed, uptime, and security.

Dark fibre networks are privately owned point-to-point fibre lines that are latent, ready to activate for your customer’s exclusive use. These dedicated lines offer a chance to escape the inefficiencies and limits of traditional carrier networks and graduate to unrivalled network performance and security for your service provider operation. Build how you want, with the point-to-point lines, bandwidth, and the hardware you choose, for future-proof infrastructure to support growing capacity requirements.

Wholesale dark fibre gives our wholesale partners the speed, scalability, reliability, and security that can’t be achieved through shared access. Unmatched in connectivity, dark fibre is an investment in your business infrastructure to deliver first-class network performance outcomes internally as well as to your customers. Simply put, dark fibre networks (or dark fiber networks to many others) provide an all-you-can-eat approach to capacity for your customer’s office or datacentre, or between your customer’s office and datacentre.

Light up dark fibre and manage your networks, your way.
If you want 100Mb, dark fibre will deliver.
1Gb, no problem for dark fibre.
10Gb, (the speed tier that NBNco just announced to great fanfare!) this doesn’t touch the sides of a dark fibre link.
3TB worth of 100G wavelengths? You guessed it, dark fibre has you covered.

With dark fibre, the carrier no longer restricts your capacity, or bandwidth, between sites. You are limited only by the power of the equipment you, the partner, choose to run over the link.

How it works

Why Does Business Choose Dark Fibre?

Performance, Reliability, Security: Realise the three pillars of optimal business networks by choosing Dark Fibre. Manage your external network solutions as you would do your local area networks for maximum performance, reliability, and security.
Full control: Do away with SLAs, performance hiccups, and call centres that waste time. Commercial Dark Fibre gives you full control of your networks, from dedicated bandwidth splitting for various apps and sites, to path management, hardware choice, and more. You know what’s best for your business, so take control and cut out the carrier.
Scale with no hidden costs: With Dark Fibre pricing, you know what you are getting from the very start. Choose your maximum bandwidth and channels, and free yourself from fees imposed on data limits. Scaling is limitless, without the extra associated costs.
Value: Because the speed of the link is controlled by you, the customer, the $/Mb value calculus completely changes. It is, by far, the most cost effective solution to deliver huge bandwidths between sites.
Latency: Dark fibre yields the lowest possible latency between sites of any fixed/terrestrial technology. This is achieved by removing all active carrier equipment from the link you fully control.
Security: Dark fibre makes it supremely difficult, or near impossible, to intercept your data between critical sites and/or infrastructure.

What is the difference between ethernet and dark fibre?

Dark Fibre is fibre optic cables that are not yet connected to networking equipment nor switched on for data traversal - they are not yet lit.

Ethernet, on the other hand, is a type of lit network. With Ethernet, the carrier is in control of keeping the cables lit and maintaining capacity and availability, along with supply and maintenance of network equipment.

With Dark Fibre, organisations determine and manage the equipment used to light the network, plus transmission techniques and protocols, traffic management, and security protocols.

Essentially, Ethernet is a managed network service delivered by carriers, whereas Dark Fibre is unmanaged - although you’re free to contract out the management of dedicated Dark Fibre Australia to a professional service.

Frequently Asked Questions

: Your business operations will be scaling significantly

Opening a new location? Delivering new services or upgrading existing services? Undergoing a digital transformation program? If your business is in the process of scaling, or will be in the not too distant future, Dark Fibre can ensure smooth scaling.

Your network security is paramount

Do you truly trust your carrier? When security is critical, managing your own networks, rather than leaving it up to someone else, is the only way to ensure you really know what’s going on.

You want to support new technologies and applications
Video, streaming IoT data, AI & ML capabilities all put significant pressure on legacy network solutions. To support a wide variety of data-heavy applications, Dark Fibre infrastructure is a compelling choice.

You require minimal latency for critical operations
Near-real-time operations, especially with a heavy data load, can be almost impossible to achieve with a carrier service. If you have critical operations that need this feature, then dedicated, high bandwidth lines with Dark Fibre speed, where you are in full control, is the only option.
: Dark Fibre costs vary depending on your organisation’s needs. Have a chat with us about your ultimate networking configuration and let’s see if we can make it a reality together.

For point-to-point datacentre to datacentre Dark Fibre routes in Australian capital cities, we charge just $250 per month, with a $1000 one-off setup fee, on a month-to-month contract. We pride ourselves on an unbeatable offering, with boutique Australian-based service.

Thus Nexthop’s pricing for dark fibre starts at $250 per month, and varies from there depending on the locations at each end of the link. You can see that dark fibre cost need not be intimidating!
: Our Dark Fibre can be installed in as quickly as just a couple of days. The network and hardware configuration for lighting and management of the fibre on your side will be where it may take some time to setup.

Give us a call at our sales department to confirm fibre availability

Get a quote (we do turnaround within 72 hours)

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Set up from 2-30 days, depending on configuration
: Dark Fibre allows you to go beyond the limits of your carrier service to get the performance and security you need from your networks, managed in-house. Gain control and autonomy of your systems, like you do with your other complex infrastructure.
: Dark Fibre is limited in distance only by the sprawl of the fibre cables themselves. For the majority of Dark Fibre lines owned by NextHop, this means within the CBD areas of Australian capital cities, although we also own lines between various popular datacentres.

Ask us about what routes we have available to suit your physical and cloud topology.
: No, “dark fibre” is not the same thing as “broadband”, though some do use the terms interchangeably. Dark fibre can be used to deliver “broadband” to a premises.
: In short, if one defines “speed” as bandwidth, rather than latency, dark fibre speed is unlimited. If the question relates to latency, then speed is dependent upon distance.
: Our portal provides a handy tool to allow you to check where we offer wholesale dark fibre services, but in a broad sense we offer wholesale dark fibre in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth

We are connected to many prominent datacentres with our wholesale dark fibre, but there are more being added on a regular basis, so get in touch with our sales team for more information.
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Dark Fibre

Why Choose Nexthop?

Speed & Security - The Ultimate Control

Bespoke Private Fibre Network Builds

Wholesale Dark Fibre Network

Rapid Response & Prompt Delivery

NBN POI Backhaul

Connect straight to the cloud

What is Dark Fibre?

How it works

Why Does Business Choose Dark Fibre?

What is the difference between ethernet and dark fibre?

Frequently Asked Questions

1. What are the most popular use cases of Dark Fibre?

2. What is the Dark Fibre cost?

3. How long does Dark Fibre take to install?

4. How my business will benefit from Dark Fibre?

5. What are the distance limitations on Dark Fibre?

6. Is dark fibre broadband?

7. What speeds are available, or what is dark fibre speed?

8. Where can I pick up a wholesale dark fibre connection?

9. What are typical use cases for dark fibre infrastructure?

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