Macquarie Telecom Group


Macquarie Telecom Group Limited is an Australian cloud, data centre, government cyber security and telecom company, with offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane and Perth. It owns and operates three data centers in Sydney and Canberra. As of December 2019 Macquarie Telecom Group has commenced construction for a fourth data centre.
Macquarie Telecom was founded in July 1992 shortly after telecommunications deregulation in Australia. The company was listed on the Australian Securities Exchange in 1999.

Macquarie Telecom Group - the business units

On 28 July 2016, Macquarie Telecom Group was announced with three distinct businesses – Macquarie Telecom, Macquarie Cloud Services and Macquarie Government. In 2018, it announced a fourth business unit, Macquarie Data Centres.
Macquarie Telecom Group runs several data centers as part of its business selling managed services and managed hosting. The data centres are located in Sydney and Canberra and are branded by Macquarie Telecom Group as "Intellicentre". Its second Sydney Data Center, Intellicentre 2, was opened September 2012, and it has Intellicentre 4 in Canberra.
In 2018, Macquarie Telecom Group announced expansion of their existing data centre campus in Sydney. Phase 1 is expected to build Intellicentre 3 East data centre which will have a floor space of 13,400 sq. m. and a load capacity of 16 MW. This will take the total load capacity of the data centre campus to 26 MW. IC3 East will be an Uptime Institute Tier 3 certified data centre and have a PUE of 1.28. Phase 2 will include the development of Intellicare 3 West data centre which will expand the capacity by another 17 MW to take the total capacity to 43 MW.

Announcements

Some clients and partners of Macquarie Telecom Group include: Dell, Cisco, VMWare, Fortinet, Red Hat, Zerto, Virtustream, Accenture, Marketo, News Corp, Westpac, BMC, Symantec, Vision Australia, Hall and Prior, Parliament of Australia, Federal Court of Australia, Western Sydney Airport, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Victoria State Government, Tourism Australia, Civil Aviation Safety Authority, Australian Prudential Regulation Authority,