Telehouse Canada & Megaport: Preparing Customers for AI

Telehouse Canada is partnering with Megaport in a bid to deliver enhanced cloud connectivity across its national data centre network.

The collaboration gives customers direct access to Megaport’s global platform of cloud and IT services, opening up new options for low-latency, scalable, and flexible networking.

Telehouse Canada operates as a subsidiary of the KDDI Group and runs carrier-neutral data centres that cater to enterprises, network providers and cloud platforms. Integrating Megaport’s Network as a Service (NaaS) offering allows clients to access cloud platforms without needing to rely on the public internet, offering more control and performance reliability.

Michael Reid, CEO at Megaport, says: “Organisations are operating across more complex environments, where connectivity and compute need to work together seamlessly.

"Working closely with Telehouse Canada allows us to extend that capability into a strong local ecosystem, giving organisations the foundations they need to support advanced workloads today and adapt as requirements evolve.”

Hybrid and multi-cloud made easier

Customers operating within Telehouse Canada facilities can now link directly to Megaport’s global ecosystem, which includes more than 280 cloud on-ramps and more than 300 service providers.

Cloud on-ramps are dedicated connections into public cloud platforms, allowing organisations to bypass the public internet and establish private, high-performance links to services such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud.

Access to the Megaport Portal from within all Telehouse Canada data centres means customers can provision connections on demand, scaling bandwidth as required without fixed-term commitments.

This supports use cases including hybrid cloud, where organisations combine public and private cloud infrastructure, and multi-cloud strategies, which involve working with more than one public cloud provider. The approach also benefits businesses that require data replication across regions for disaster recovery, regulatory compliance or performance improvement.

Organisations can also make use of Megaport Cloud Routers, which enable private interconnection between different cloud platforms, streamlining the movement of data between services. API integration supports automated provisioning and management, letting customers build and operate networks programmatically.

Building a platform for AI and global scale

Telehouse Canada’s data centres are positioned as more than traditional colocation sites. The company frames them as digital ecosystems, where cloud access and interconnection form part of the core infrastructure.

By embedding Megaport’s services within its campuses, Telehouse Canada aims to support customers building international IT environments.

Atsushi Kubo, President and CEO at Telehouse Canada, says: “This partnership exemplifies the commitment Telehouse Canada and Megaport have to providing quality and efficient connectivity solutions. We’re proud to deliver more than colocation – we’re also enabling a highly interconnected ecosystem that empowers businesses to grow within our data centre campus.

"Telehouse Canada customers gain on-demand access to global services that simplify complexity and accelerate growth through Megaport’s platform.”

For customers, this means faster deployment times, lower operational overheads and better access to overseas markets. Businesses can expand connectivity in step with changes in computing or storage demand, without the need to build out or renegotiate long-term infrastructure.

The model also supports organisations running high-performance workloads and artificial intelligence (AI) systems. Through Megaport’s AI Exchange – a connectivity platform tailored for AI use cases – customers can link to GPU as a service providers, third-party AI models and cloud-native compute and storage tools.

AI Exchange supports direct, private access to the components needed for AI training and inference tasks, improving performance while helping control data movement and security. Customers do not need to rework their existing architectures to integrate this capability – the services slot into Telehouse Canada’s environment and are available across its national network.

Flexible infrastructure for the future

The partnership also gives Megaport an opportunity to embed its NaaS platform in a well-established local infrastructure provider, giving it access to the Canadian market and extending reach for customers with global cloud strategies.

The integration between the two platforms supports organisations as they move towards distributed IT operations, combining local data centres with cloud infrastructure, software platforms and edge services.

Both companies have signalled their intention to develop the partnership further, focusing on secure, high-performance connectivity that adapts to the changing requirements of businesses across Canada and beyond.

By bringing Megaport’s global ecosystem into its facilities, Telehouse Canada enables customers to connect to the services they need on demand, scale as required and prepare their networks for AI and hybrid IT.