DXN wins $4.8M cable landing station order from repeat global internet customer

Australian modular data centre builder DXN has signed a binding contract worth about $4.8 million with an unnamed global internet company for a prefabricated cable landing station (CLS). The unit is bound for a Pacific region site under US jurisdiction, and DXN expects to deliver it in the first quarter of FY28. DXN told the ASX that this is the fourth order it has received from the same customer.

DXN will handle design, engineering, manufacture and commissioning of a turnkey station built on its prefabricated module platform, with power, cooling, fire suppression, security and monitoring built in. Production starts straight away at its facilities in Malaysia and Western Australia. The company said the customer's engineering requirements have been standardised across successive orders, which has cut time and cost in design, manufacturing, supply chain and delivery.

Managing director Shalini Lagrutta said that after four contracts DXN now has "a deep relationship and understanding of the customer requirements". She said the company aims to deliver on schedule while the customer keeps expanding its infrastructure globally.

techpartner.news reported that DXN won a $1.2 million CLS contract from the Solomon Islands Submarine Cable Company in late July, after a $1 million CLS contract from the American Samoa Telecommunications Authority (ASTCA) earlier that month. The ASTCA station will host the La Vasa cable, a US$45 million system linking American Samoa with Fiji and French Polynesia, and will connect to Google's planned Bulikula system. ARN noted the new order follows a Melbourne Airport contract worth just over $4 million.

DXN says it has supplied more than 100 modular data centres to date. Earlier landing station modules went to Sub.co on the Cocos (Keeling) Islands for the Oman–Australia Cable and to Palau for the Echo cable, and DXN also supplied the East Micronesia Cable System.