Leaptel signs $4.5m backhaul deal with Superloop

Leaptel has struck a three-year, $4.5 million agreement with Superloop that will improve backhaul redundancy and reach nationally.

The fast-growing retail service provider (RSP) will use Superloop’s infrastructure-on-demand platform for “virtual network-to-network interface (VNNI) backhaul to all 121 NBN points of interconnect (POIs), as well as intercapital ethernet services across Australia,” Superloop said in a statement.

Leaptel said in a LinkedIn post that the agreement represents “a giant leap to improve our network backhaul.”

“This means there will be a significant reduction in both planned and unplanned outages with greater redundancies in place so that if one path goes down for maintenance (or due to a fault), you’ll stay online,” the company said.

Some Leaptel customers in Victoria experienced a couple of unplanned outages last month due to fibre cuts.

Leaptel said it would migrate its existing customers “to the new backhaul” procured through Superloop “throughout November”.

“New services will be connected straight to the new backhaul starting early November.”

“Being one of NBN’s fastest growing retail service providers, we knew this move was necessary as we’ve seen increased network demand,” Leaptel said.

It added that it is also scaling up backhaul in preparation “for the much-anticipated arrival of multi-gigabit [NBN] services in September 2025.”

Superloop CEO Paul Tyler said partnerships, such as the one with Leaptel, “are key to our vision of the challenger segment of the telco market taking a collective 30 percent market share.”