Prefabricated modular data centre specialist DXN has inked a $4.1 million contract with Australia Pacific Airports (Melbourne) Pty Ltd (APAM), the operator of Melbourne Airport, for the supply of a prefabricated edge data facility.
Under the contract, DXN will design, engineer, manufacture, factory acceptance test, deliver, install and commission a complete prefabricated facility incorporating critical power, cooling, fire detection and suppression, and supporting infrastructure.
Manufacture will be undertaken within DXN’s manufacturing network, with the facility delivered to site at Melbourne Airport for installation, site acceptance testing and commissioning towards the end of 1H CY27.
Melbourne Airport is an Edge Infrastructure site, and the facility forms part of APAM’s ADP ICT enabling works program.
Shalini Lagrutta, DXN’s MD, said Melbourne Airport is precisely the kind of Edge site where the company's model delivers the most value.
"Critical ICT infrastructure needs to sit close to the operations it supports, and it must be delivered without disrupting an airport that runs around the clock,” she said.
“By building the facility in our factory and delivering it fully constructed and pre-tested, we take most of the risk off the customer’s site and compress a program that would traditionally take years into months.
“We are seeing more and more customers reach the same conclusion; that prefabrication is the faster route to new capacity, and the better-quality one, compared with a multi-year upgrade of an existing facility.”
Separate to this announcement, DXN announced it has also secured an additional $1.6 million variation order to an existing contract with Globalstar.
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