CASE STUDY
Aussie Broadband has built a modern, cloud-native private cloud platform using SUSE Rancher Prime, SUSE Virtualization and a number of other SUSE technologies – achieving 20 – 30 % improvements in operational efficiency.
Founded in a regional Victorian living room in 2003, Aussie Broadband has grown into a publicly listed company with over 780,000 broadband connections, a team of more than 1,300 staff, and was recently named Australia’ s Most Trusted Telco by the Australian research company Roy Morgan.
Now the fifth-largest retail internet provider in Australia, its rapid expansion, through both organic growth and acquisitions, resulted in a fragmented tech stack.
To stay competitive and maintain service reliability, Aussie Broadband launched a major
IT transformation, with a goal to create a unified, scalable cloud hosting platform.
“ As a telco, we’ re classified as an essential service, so any downtime within that ISP network is a big deal,” said Ben O’ Shea, General Manager Transformation & Cloud, Aussie Broadband.
“ We needed a platform that could keep our core ISP and customer services running reliably, while improving the efficiency of the systems our teams depend on.”
With a VMware( by Broadcom) renewal looming, the team also saw an opportunity to retire more costly proprietary solutions in favour of open source. After evaluating options from Red Hat, VMware and Canonical, Aussie Broadband chose SUSE for its“ powerful” combination of performance, flexibility, and support.
WE NEEDED A PLATFORM THAT COULD KEEP OUR
CORE ISP AND CUSTOMER SERVICES RUNNING
RELIABLY, WHILE IMPROVING THE EFFICIENCY OF THE
SYSTEMS OUR TEAMS DEPEND ON.
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