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- Ethernet
- Government
- High Availability
- Hybrid Cloud
- Hyperscale
- Internet
- Monitoring
- Multicloud
- Multiprotocol Label Switching
- Network Operator
- on-premises
- Private Network
- Public Cloud
- Public Sector
- Router
- Service Level Agreements
- Services
- Session Initiation Protocol
- Software-as-a-Service
- Software-Defined Wide Area Network
- Submarine Cable
- Unified Communications
- Wholesale
- Wide Area Network
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Who is Vocus?
Vocus is an Australian telecommunications and network infrastructure provider that delivers fibre, internet, cloud connectivity, voice, and related services to enterprise, government, wholesale, and carrier customers.
- National and trans-Tasman fibre network services for enterprise, government, wholesale, and carrier customers (network connectivity).
- Business-grade internet access, including high-capacity and redundant connectivity options (network connectivity).
- Data centre interconnect and cloud on-ramp services to major cloud platforms (cloud connectivity).
- Voice, unified communications, and IP-based telephony services for business and institutional users (unified communications).
- Managed network, security, and professional services supporting complex multi-site and hybrid IT environments (managed services).
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More About Vocus
Vocus operates as a specialist telecommunications and network infrastructure provider focused on organisations that require high-availability, high-capacity connectivity across Australia and New Zealand. Its customer base includes large enterprises, government agencies, critical infrastructure operators, and other carriers and service providers that use Vocus fibre and backbone assets as part of their own service delivery. The company’s portfolio clusters around core network services, business internet, cloud connectivity, voice and unified communications, and managed services.
At the infrastructure layer, Vocus owns and operates fibre networks, submarine cable assets, and backbone transmission infrastructure that support Ethernet, Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), wavelength, and other carrier-grade data services (network connectivity). These networks are engineered for performance and resilience and are used to build point-to-point, point-to-multipoint, and multi-site private network topologies for customers with distributed footprints, such as retail chains, logistics operators, utilities, and public-sector departments. The company also provides wholesale capacity and backhaul to other telecommunications providers that integrate these services into their own offerings.
For internet access, Vocus provides business-grade broadband and dedicated internet services that can be integrated with Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) and other overlay technologies (network connectivity). These services are designed to support latency-sensitive workloads, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) consumption, and large data flows between sites and external services. Network designs often incorporate multiple access technologies and redundant paths, with Service Level Agreements (SLAs) that are structured for enterprise and institutional use cases.
In cloud and data centre environments, Vocus delivers connectivity to major hyperscale cloud providers and co-location sites through data centre interconnect and cloud on-ramp services (cloud connectivity). These services allow enterprises to extend their Wide Area Network (WAN) into public cloud regions and private hosting facilities using private links rather than relying exclusively on public internet routing. This model supports architectures such as hybrid cloud and multi-cloud, where workloads and data move between on-premises (on-prem) infrastructure and cloud platforms.
On the communications side, Vocus offers voice and unified communications services including Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), hosted voice, and collaboration enablement (unified communications). These services are used by enterprises and government entities to consolidate legacy telephony, enable IP-based calling, and support multi-channel communication strategies. Integration with customers’ existing PBX, contact centre, or collaboration platforms is a common deployment pattern.
Vocus also provides managed network and related services, where it designs, implements, and operates customer networks, security controls, and connectivity to third-party services (managed services). This may include managed routers, firewalls, SD-WAN devices, and monitoring tools. For many organisations, Vocus functions as a partner that delivers both the underlying network infrastructure and ongoing operational support, aligning its offerings with enterprise architectures that prioritise reliability, predictable performance, and compliance with regulatory or sector-specific requirements.
Our description of Vocus. Updated December 2025.
