FibreconX appoints Kyle Bunting as general manager of alliances and partnerships

Dark fibre services provider Fibreconx has appointed Kyle Bunting as its new general manager for alliances and partnerships.

Bunting joins the firm after an over five-year stint at Lenovo, where he served as head of enterprise sales for Australia and New Zealand and most recently software and cybersecurity lead for Asia Pacific (APAC).

He has over 20 years' experience in the technology industry, having spent over over four years as head of channel, alliances and dealers at TPG and over twelve years at Dell Technologies, where he served as cloud services director for APAC. 

"After an enriching tenure at Lenovo, where I contributed to the Infrastructure Solutions Group and the Solutions and Services Group, focusing on cloud solutions, cybersecurity and software solutions, I am thrilled to announce my transition to FibreconX," Bunting told CRN Australia.

"This move marks an exciting new chapter in my career, joining a company that is revolutionising the digital infrastructure landscape with its unique approach to dark fibre."

FibreconX is a wholesale-only dark fibre digital infrastructure business that operates a fibre network connecting major data centres in Sydney and Melbourne.

Bunting said the company is "selling exclusively to partners" and has secured network agreements with "the three largest cloud providers in Australia."

FibreconX plans to expand its network to all capital cities to help data centres meet the demands of AI and cloud technologies.

"Everybody thinks about AI driving huge data centres, and it is absolutely driving huge data centres...but they need the connectivity between them, and the only real capability to give access to data center to data center connectivity at the speeds that people want is essentially dark fibre," Bunting said.

"Dark fibre offers unparalleled speed and security, with light traveling at about five microseconds per kilometre, compared to the five milliseconds per kilometer for traditional ethernet, layer 2 or layer 3 connections—a thousand-fold increase in speed."

"FibreconX is at the forefront of addressing these challenges by constructing a network designed for the future, catering to the needs of cloud, machine learning, AI and edge computing."