365 Data Centers and Megaport extend NaaS partnership to 15 US sites
365 Data Centers and Megaport have expanded their existing partnership, adding nine new points-of-presence (PoPs) across US facilities in Fort Lauderdale, Detroit, Chicago, Commack (New York), Philadelphia (Market Street), Rancho Cordova, Richardson (Texas), Smyrna (Georgia) and Herndon (Virginia). The expansion brings Megaport's total footprint across the 365 platform to 15 facilities, following earlier deployments at locations including Boca Raton, Alpharetta, Aurora, Bridgewater, Carlstadt and Philadelphia's Spring Garden site over the past two years.
The deployment allows customers at the nine new facilities to provision on-demand connectivity through Megaport's software-defined platform, with access to Direct Internet Access, transport services and direct cloud on-ramps to Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Oracle Cloud and IBM Cloud. Customers can scale connections without engaging physical circuit provisioning, which is the core value proposition of Network-as-a-Service architectures in carrier-neutral colocation environments.
The deal
Derek Gillespie, chief executive of 365 Data Centers, said the expansion "continues to enhance the flexibility of our carrier-neutral ecosystem and supports the hybrid IT strategies of organisations operating across key US markets." Megaport chief executive Michael Reid described the partnership as enabling businesses to "connect digital infrastructure wherever it runs, and to rapidly scale those connections as demand evolves."
Neither company disclosed the commercial terms of the expanded agreement, nor did the release specify whether the arrangement involves revenue sharing, per-port fees or a fixed-term contract. No customer names were cited in connection with the new sites.
Market context
The NaaS and software-defined interconnect market has grown substantially as enterprise buyers prioritise on-demand scalability over traditional MPLS and dedicated-circuit contracts. Megaport competes in this space with Equinix Fabric, Console Connect (PCCW Global) and Cloudflare Network Interconnect, among others. Colocation operators across the mid-market tier have increasingly bundled NaaS partnerships into their connectivity portfolios to differentiate from hyperscaler-adjacent facilities, where direct cloud on-ramps are table stakes.
365 Data Centers positions itself as serving mid-market and enterprise customers, a segment that has historically relied on managed service providers for hybrid connectivity but is now increasingly demanding self-service provisioning through software portals. Extending Megaport's reach to secondary US markets such as Commack, Smyrna and Rancho Cordova rather than only Tier 1 metros signals an intent to capture workloads distributed across edge and regional locations, not just core financial or technology hubs.
Standards and regulatory read-across
Megaport holds ISO/IEC 27001 certification for its network, a relevant credential for enterprise buyers in regulated industries evaluating supply-chain security controls under frameworks such as NIS2 (for EU-connected operations) and DORA (for financial services firms with transatlantic infrastructure). The nine new US sites include Herndon, Virginia, which sits in the Northern Virginia corridor and is frequented by federal and government-adjacent workloads subject to FedRAMP considerations. Neither company addressed federal or regulated-sector compliance positioning in the release.
With 15 shared facilities now active, the partnership is approaching a scale at which joint go-to-market arrangements typically move from opportunistic referral agreements toward deeper commercial integration. Buyers and analysts will be watching whether the companies formalise pricing or publish combined SLA commitments as the footprint grows further.