Why choose Optus Dark Fibre?
Optus Dark Fibre offers secure, high-performance connectivity for businesses that demand full control over their network. You get a dedicated fibre connection, which scales with your growing data needs.
- Security and privacy: Enjoy a dedicated, secure fibre connection that never interacts with shared public networks.
- Scalability: Upgrade your bandwidth by changing your optical transmission equipment at each termination point.
- Cost control: Manage your costs effectively by taking full ownership of the network, equipment, and bandwidth.
- Reliability: Opt for diverse fibre paths to keep your network running even in the event of fibre cuts or faults.
- Better performance: Handle data-intensive tasks like backups, real-time e-commerce, and video conferencing with Optus Dark Fibre’s low latency and ultra-high-speed capacity.
- Trusted expertise and support: Work with Optus to tap into 20+ years of dark fibre experience. Our extensive network and 24/7 support keep you connected and secure.
What is Optus Dark Fibre?
Optus Dark Fibre delivers an unlit, dedicated fibre service to organisations, using Optus's fibre network across capital cities, metropolitan areas, and regional towns. It provides a Layer 1 physical optical fibre circuit, giving you full control to install and manage your own optical transmission equipment to light the fibre.
When you partner with Optus, you get:
- Dedicated, private fibre: Optus Dark Fibre provides a dedicated, point-to-point optic fibre connection that ensures secure and private data transmission, separate from public internet infrastructure.
- Unlit fibre for full control: Optus delivers a Layer 1 optical fibre that allows you to light the fibre with your own optical transmission equipment.
- Virtually unlimited bandwidth: Optus Dark Fibre supports bandwidth up to 100Gbps per wavelength, with the ability to use multiple wavelengths on a single fibre for near-infinite capacity.
- Geographically diverse paths: Optus offers resilient, geographically diverse fibre paths to ensure network uptime, even during fibre cuts or faults.
- Customisable network design: Optus Dark Fibre can be configured with multiple fibre pairs, diverse lead-ins, and ring topologies.
- 24/7 monitoring and support: Optus offers 24/7 support with fast fault restoration targets, aiming to resolve critical faults within eight hours.
Trusted by leading Australian organisations
Your business is in reliable hands. Optus is trusted by three out of four of Australia’s largest banks and three of the country’s largest government departments.
Exceptional expertise and service
Supported by one of Australia's largest technical sales teams and a local security operations centre (SOC) and network operations centre (NOC), we provide top-tier service backed by ISO certifications and AI-enhanced processes.
Best-of-breed technology
We deliver tailored, best-of-breed solutions, leveraging strong partnerships to maximise the value of your technology investments.
Award Winning Network
As a tier 1 provider with global network connections, Optus offers a secure, resilient network backed by AUD$4.5b worth of investment since 2020 to ensure business continuity.
How to get started
Discover how to support your business with secure, private connectivity for high-volume data transfers and real-time applications. Speak to an Optus specialist today.