Pranav Hotkar
Auckland, New Zealand, November 5, 2025- EonFibre, the wholesale fibre arm of One NZ, has partnered with Datacentre220 to bring EonFibre’s DC Direct high-capacity connectivity product into Datacentre220’s 220 Queen Street campus, aiming to give New Zealand data-centre customers faster, lower-latency links between sites as east–west AI and cloud traffic surges.
Richard Mooney, CEO of EonFibre, said the collaboration marks a key step toward building a national fibre backbone ready for AI workloads. “Partnering with Datacentre220 ensures customers can directly access scalable, high-capacity fibre routes through our newly launched DC Direct solution, connecting them to New Zealand’s critical data hubs and international gateways,” Mooney said. “Rather than sharing bandwidth with consumer traffic, DC Direct has extensive reach covering over 30 major data centres and LFC exchanges across the country on high-capacity fibre routes, delivering future-proof scalability and uninterrupted performance. Our proactive capacity management keeps businesses ahead of the curve as AI adoption continues to accelerate.”
Under the arrangement, DC Direct will make dark-fibre, wavelength and Ethernet on-ramps available at Datacentre220’s facilities so customers can build private, high-capacity circuits without routing traffic over third-party transit. The product is positioned as a purpose-built option for inter-data-centre replication, backup and low-latency fabrics that modern AI training and inference clusters demand.
Ross Delaney, CEO of Datacentre220, said the partnership adds flexibility for customers in how they connect their infrastructure. “We’ve built Datacentre220 to be a connectivity ecosystem designed for resilience, choice, and performance,” Delaney said. “Customers expect the freedom to connect the way they need to, and by integrating EonFibre’s DC Direct into our facility, we’re providing our customers even more freedom with connectivity that supports digital transformation, cloud adoption, and the future of work in New Zealand.”
Datacentre220, which rebranded earlier this year and bills its 220 Queen Street building as one of New Zealand’s most connected colocation hubs, will offer the EonFibre connectivity directly to enterprise and cloud customers colocating in the facility. The partnership is pitched as a way to reduce dependency on long-haul public internet routes for heavy east–west flows, cutting transit cost and jitter while enabling deterministic links for hybrid-cloud architectures.
Commercial details such as pricing, SLAs and exact port speeds were not published in the announcement and are expected to appear in partner sales materials. The companies said availability in Datacentre220’s campus is immediate and that sales teams will engage customers directly. The partnership signals growing local infrastructure maturity for workloads that demand predictable, high-bandwidth interconnects as cloud and AI adoption accelerate across Aotearoa.
