Australia’s leading SD-WAN network provider Fusion Broadband recently launched its UK and European business by opening its new office at Innovation Martlesham’s technology hub at Adastral Park, near Ipswich in Suffolk.
As part of a major push to expand into the UK and Europe, a new company will be led by former BT Global Services solution architect Andrew Catchpole, who becomes Chief Executive of Fusion Broadband UK. Catchpole, who has 39-years’ experience at BT helping banking and multi-national corporate organisations with their data and communications networking needs, has taken a major shareholding in Fusion Broadband UK. He will build the business which will service customers headquartered in the UK, Ireland and mainland Europe.
The company, which was founded in Melbourne, Australia in 2011, now plans to strike deals with UK managed service providers and jointly take its SD-WAN services to market. In addition to Australia and the UK, Fusion Broadband also has sales operations in South Africa and the Philippines.
Fusion Broadband said its SD-WAN service is built on IBM Cloud technology, with more than 48 points of presence around the world connected to IBM’s high-speed backbone. Fusion Broadband’s SD-WAN infrastructure has already been deployed in IBM’s London datacentres and will expand into IBM’s European datacentres as required.
Andrew Catchpole, Fusion Broadband, UK
Working with Managed Service Provider partners, we plan to change that and help customers connect “cloud-first” to much better, more resilient, and easier to manage services at a significantly lower price.
