Optus Wholesale launches API-first Layer 3 NBN platform for service providers

Optus Wholesale has entered the Layer 3 wholesale NBN market with the launch of Optus Wholesale NBN, an API-first platform designed to give service providers a simpler way to bring broadband products to market, manage services and scale.

The platform is now available nationally across all 121 NBN points of interconnect, with speed tiers from nbn 25 to nbn 1000.

Unlike traditional wholesale models, the company said Optus Wholesale NBN lets partners choose how they integrate - either directly through APIs or via the MyWholesale Portal - and allows them to bring their own devices rather than adapting to the carrier's systems.

Service providers can also move customers from Optus Wholesale NBN to higher-performance services, including Optus Fibre or NBN Enterprise Ethernet, without changing their wholesale provider.

"Partners shouldn't have to run their business around their carrier," said John Castro, executive general manager at Optus Wholesale.

"We won't tell them which systems to use, which devices to supply or how to package their products. We give them a proven network, an automated platform and support from teams here in Australia, then get out of their way."

Castro said the platform is designed as a starting point rather than a ceiling.

"When a partner's customers need more, they can move them up without having to change their wholesale provider."

Telco challenger brand Yomojo is among the first service providers to launch NBN services on the platform. Chief executive James Linton said the automation of the ordering and provisioning layer was central to the decision.

"We have a target of 50,000 services over 36 months and a small team," Linton said.

"The only way those two things go together is if the ordering and provisioning layer runs without us touching it. I benchmarked almost 20 nbn wholesale providers before signing with Optus."

Optus Wholesale NBN is built on the same platform already underpinning Amaysim's Layer 3 NBN services, which the company said gives new wholesale partners access to an established, proven environment from day one.