Activeport Group Launches Australia’s First Private Cloud Superhighway

Activeport Group (ASX: ATV) has unveiled its Private-Cloud Connect platform, a high-speed, fibre-based network designed to give Australian private cloud operators unprecedented flexibility and performance.

The launch marks the first dedicated domestic service to offer variable bandwidth for private cloud connectivity, linking branch offices to cloud infrastructure in leading colocation data centres.

Three operators — DigiCo, Equinix and NextDC — have already signed on, with Activeport expecting their deployments to generate hundreds of new network-as-a-service circuits on its Global Edge platform before the end of the year.

Flexible Network Built for the AI Era

Private-Cloud Connect delivers high-capacity layer-2 ports via the Fibreconx backbone, with Activeport’s orchestration software enabling bandwidth adjustments in real time.

This means operators can expand capacity during intensive workloads such as large-scale data migrations or AI model training, then scale back to optimise costs during normal operations.

Chief executive officer Peter Christie said the rapid emergence of AI in enterprise environments was creating a need for secure, low-latency and locally hosted solutions.

He noted that new AI tools were driving higher demand for compute, storage and high-speed communications links within Australian facilities.

“In future releases we will integrate our GPU orchestration and bare metal management solution, already live on some of the world’s largest telco networks, to provide a comprehensive, highly scalable edge-to-cloud AI platform-as-a-service for Australian operators,” Mr Christie said.

Expanding the Global Edge Platform

The launch builds on Activeport’s Global Edge network-as-a-service, which the company rolled out in Sydney and Melbourne earlier this year.

While that platform opened the door for faster, software-orchestrated connections between sites, Private-Cloud Connect focuses specifically on the growing cohort of operators providing hosted private cloud services.

By automating provisioning and management, the service aims to reduce deployment times for customers while also giving resellers competitive wholesale pricing.

Activeport said this margin potential, combined with rapid service activation, would help partners win business in an increasingly competitive connectivity market.

The company is targeting a share of Australia’s rapidly growing AI market, which analysts forecast will be worth $22 billion by 2030 on a compound annual growth rate of 17%.

Capital Raising to Accelerate Growth

Earlier this month, Activeport launched a fully underwritten 1-for-2.75 non-renounceable rights issue to raise up to $2.5 million at $0.01 per share.

The issue price represented a discount of 28.6% to the last traded price at that time of $0.014.

Each two shares applied for will come with one free attaching option, exercisable at $0.02 and expiring on 30 November 2028.

The raising, underwritten by Alpine Capital and GBA Capital, will provide funds for business development, product enhancement, delivery and support, corporate costs and loan repayments.