Australia's first network-as-a-service customer portal

Megaport, has launched what they say is Australia's first network-as-a-service customer portal.

Megaportal is a self-service portal designed to give enterprise customers and carriers the capacity to create and manage on-demand elastic connections to Megaport's cloud and service provider partners. This can be for as short as a day and as long as a year, in real-time and without the need for any human intervention.

The Megaport Elastic Connectivity Platform allows participants create on-demand direct connections or Virtual X-Connections (VXC's) between each other. Since its launch in July last year over 100 providers and enterprises have signed up including Amazon Web Services, M2 and iiNet. 

At the heart of Megaportal is a secure RESTful API server that supports web, mobile and business clients. This enables Megaport to deliver Megaportal to their channel partners who can resell it as a service to their customers as their own branded service. This gives partners the ability to seamlessly integrate their systems using familiar, well supported tools and technologies from Megaport.

Maegportal is live and can be accessed via a web browser for all Megaport customers. A mobile application will soon be available via app stores for Android and iOS devices.

Megaport has outlined plans for expansion into Asia and the license for a dark fibre network in Singapore.