Telehouse Canada is strengthening its role in the country’s digital infrastructure by expanding cloud connectivity across its data centre network through a new strategic partnership with Network as a Service provider Megaport. The collaboration is designed to improve access to global cloud services while giving enterprises greater flexibility in how they design and scale their networks.
The partnership allows organisations operating within Telehouse Canada facilities to connect directly to Megaport’s global ecosystem of cloud and service providers. By linking into this fabric, customers can extend their reach beyond local infrastructure and build architectures that support international operations, hybrid environments, and increasingly data intensive workloads.
As part of the global KDDI Group, Telehouse Canada operates carrier neutral data centres that serve enterprises, network operators, and cloud providers. The addition of Megaport’s platform adds another layer of connectivity, giving customers low latency access to major public clouds and scalable bandwidth options without relying on the public internet.
This move reflects a broader shift within the data centre sector, where connectivity is becoming just as critical as physical space and power. For many organisations, especially those managing distributed IT environments, the ability to move data quickly and securely across regions has become a core requirement rather than a value add.
Building scalable hybrid and multi cloud environments
Under the agreement, customers hosted in Telehouse Canada data centres gain access to Megaport’s global network, which includes hundreds of cloud on ramps and service providers across multiple regions. This makes it possible to establish private, high performance connections to leading cloud platforms and enterprise services while maintaining greater control over security and performance.
With Megaport’s portal available across Telehouse Canada locations, organisations can provision connectivity on demand and adjust capacity as business needs change. This flexibility supports a wide range of use cases, from hybrid cloud deployments to multi cloud strategies and cross region data replication.
For enterprises running workloads across different geographies, the ability to scale connectivity alongside compute and storage helps reduce complexity. Instead of managing multiple network contracts or long term commitments, teams can respond more quickly to changing demands and new opportunities.
Megaport Cloud Router technology also enables customers to move data directly between cloud environments, simplifying architectures that span multiple platforms. Combined with API driven deployment options, network services can be integrated into automation workflows, supporting more agile and programmable infrastructure models.
Strengthening interconnected data centre ecosystems
For Telehouse Canada, the partnership supports a long term strategy focused on developing highly interconnected data centre campuses rather than traditional colocation facilities alone. By embedding cloud connectivity directly into its sites, the company is positioning its locations as digital hubs that bring together cloud, network, and enterprise ecosystems.
This approach aligns with growing demand from organisations that want proximity not only to infrastructure, but also to partners, platforms, and global markets. Highly connected facilities can improve resilience, reduce latency, and open up new possibilities for collaboration and innovation.
Atsushi Kubo, President and CEO of Telehouse Canada, highlighted the intent behind the collaboration, noting that the partnership reflects a shared commitment to delivering efficient and high quality connectivity solutions. He emphasised that the goal goes beyond providing physical space, focusing instead on enabling an interconnected environment where businesses can grow and adapt.
Through Megaport’s platform, Telehouse Canada customers gain on demand access to global services that help simplify network complexity and accelerate expansion into new regions. This model also helps shorten deployment timelines and lower operational overheads for organisations that would otherwise need to manage complex networking arrangements.
Supporting AI and high performance workloads
The partnership also extends to Megaport’s AI Exchange platform, which is designed to support connectivity for organisations building or deploying artificial intelligence solutions. AI Exchange provides access to GPU as a service providers, neocloud platforms, third party AI models, and distributed storage and compute resources.
As demand for AI and high performance computing continues to grow, data centres are under increasing pressure to support fast, reliable interconnection between data sources, compute environments, and specialised AI services. Private connectivity plays a key role in meeting these requirements by reducing latency and improving performance predictability.
By integrating AI Exchange into the services available within Telehouse Canada facilities, customers can incorporate AI capabilities into existing architectures without major changes to underlying infrastructure. This allows organisations to experiment, scale, and optimise AI workloads while maintaining control over data movement and security.
The ability to connect privately to specialised AI resources is particularly valuable for enterprises handling sensitive data or performance critical applications. It also supports emerging use cases across sectors such as finance, healthcare, manufacturing, and research.
Laying foundations for resilient global connectivity
For Megaport, the collaboration represents an opportunity to deepen its presence within Canada’s data centre ecosystem while extending its reach to organisations with global connectivity needs. By working closely with Telehouse Canada, Megaport can embed its Network as a Service model within facilities that already serve as key hubs for enterprise and cloud activity.
Michael Reid, CEO of Megaport, noted that organisations are increasingly operating across complex environments where connectivity and compute must work together seamlessly. He pointed out that partnerships like this help provide the foundations required to support advanced workloads today while remaining adaptable to future requirements.
Both companies have indicated that the collaboration will continue to evolve, with a focus on strengthening secure, high performance connectivity for organisations operating within and beyond Canada. For customers hosted in Telehouse Canada data centres, the expanded services offer immediate access to scalable cloud connectivity that supports international growth, AI adoption, and hybrid IT strategies.
