A Look Back at 2025: Megaport's Biggest Updates

By Michael Reid, CEO & Board Director

New capabilities, more capacity, global expansions, and plenty of exciting launches – it's been a big year for Megaport.

Every year in the cloud world feels like a sprint. New architectures, new workloads, new ways to move data around. But when I look back at everything we delivered at Megaport this year, it’s clear why the pace felt so fast: We shipped a lot of things that genuinely change how people build and operate networks.

2025 was one of those years where the groundwork we’ve been laying started showing up in big, tangible ways. More scale. More choice. More control. And a lot of simplification where customers benefit most.

Let’s walk through the biggest updates we rolled out this year – what they mean, why they matter, and how they make your cloud architecture a little easier.

We launched 100G MCRs

We kicked off the year with 100G Megaport Cloud Routers (MCRs). For a lot of customers, this was more than just a “nice to have”. It was the missing piece for high-throughput hybrid and multicloud designs.

With 100G MCR, you can:

• move serious amounts of data without redesigning your routing footprint
• collapse multiple routers into fewer, higher-capacity endpoints
• support ML pipelines or large data transfers with predictable performance

If you’re architecting around heavier east–west cloud traffic, this announcement is worth revisiting.

We launched Megaport NAT Gateway

Megaport NAT Gateway is designed for those of you who have managed a patchwork of NAT appliances across cloud and on-prem. (I know, it’s not fun.)

We built Megaport NAT Gateway to give you:

• a clean, managed NAT you don’t have to babysit
• consistent egress behavior across environments
• fewer virtual appliances cluttering up your architecture.

It’s one of those quality-of-life features that removes friction you didn’t realize was draining time until it’s gone.

You can find more details in our launch blog.

We added Cisco Webex Edge Connect to Megaport Voice and Video Exchange

This year we brought Cisco Webex Edge Connect to Megaport Voice and Video Exchange (VVx), giving teams a private, stable path into Webex that doesn’t touch the public internet.

With this integration, users get more predictable call quality, better performance for remote and hybrid teams, and a more straightforward way to support global collaboration for your teams.

If you rely on Webex for voice or video, this one’s a meaningful upgrade.

We added packet filtering to MCR

It’s easy to think of routing simply as getting packets from A to B, but really, it’s about shaping the flow so your network behaves the way you want. This is where packet filtering on MCR comes in.

With packet filtering you can:

• allow or block traffic based on source, destination, or protocol
• trim noisy or unnecessary flows before they hit your cloud
• add control without bolting on extra hardware.

It’s a small feature with a pretty huge impact for network managers. You can learn more here.

We passed 1,000 locations

We crossed 1,000 enabled locations worldwide this year, and speaking as someone who works closely with customers designing global architectures, this milestone is huge.

What it means for you:

• More geographic choice for redundancy and reach.
• Shorter paths to cloud on-ramps.
• Faster builds in regions that were previously harder to access.

It’s a milestone that makes our whole platform stronger. Catch the celebration here.

We introduced IPsec tunnels

One of the most common discussions I hear network engineers have is how to secure their environments end to end without adding hardware or complexity.

Megaport IPsec Tunnels were our answer.

With our IPsec tunnels, you get:

• secure connectivity from almost any router
• a lightweight way to connect edge sites, branch offices, and distributed infrastructure
• encrypted connectivity without provisioning physical ports.

You can get the full overview here.

We launched 400G ports

In August, we turned our capacity up a level with 400G ports. These are built for customers running dense interconnect, HPC, AI workloads, or large data pipelines that simply need more bandwidth per port.

Benefits include:

• higher throughput with a cleaner physical design
• fewer ports to manage overall
• better economics at scale.

If you’re scaling data center network capacity, this is a big one.

We added SCION with Anapaya to Megaport Virtual Edge

One of the most interesting launches of the year was our support for SCION, delivered with Anapaya through Megaport Virtual Edge (MVE).

SCION is a next-generation networking architecture focused on secure, verifiable routing with strong path control. When you use it with Anapaya and MVE you’ll get predictable, explicit routing paths, reduce your exposure to traditional BGP weaknesses, and control your enterprise connectivity.

If you’re following the evolution of secure networking, this one’s worth learning more about.

We released the Cloud Network Report

Our latest Cloud Network Report came out this year – packed with data on traffic patterns, multicloud adoption, and how organizations are actually using connectivity in the wild.

Drawing on operational data from our own global platform, the report puts real numbers behind what we see every day as teams scale across clouds.

You can read the full report here.

We acquired Latitude.sh

This more recent announcement might just be our biggest of the year: our acquisition of Latitude.sh.

This acquisition unites global connectivity and rapidly deployable compute – two things that increasingly need to live closer together as applications become more distributed.

Customers get:

• a unified platform for edge compute and global networking
• faster deployment cycles for distributed workloads
• a more flexible foundation for hybrid and multicloud architectures.

You can learn more about the announcement here.

We acquired Extreme IX and expanded to India

Just recently we also announced our expansion into one of the world’s fastest-growing digital markets through our acquisition of Extreme IX, India’s leading Internet Exchange operator. With IX locations across seven of India’s most important key metros, customers now gain a stronger local presence and more efficient cloud paths within and into India.

Learn more in our press release.

Looking at 2026

2025 was a year of scale, refinement, and a lot of foundational work at Megaport HQ.

If you’ve been following us for a while, you can probably see the pattern: We’re building toward a world where networks feel less like infrastructure and more like a flexible, programmable layer you can shape to fit whatever you’re building.

If you want to dive deeper into any of these updates or rethink parts of your architecture, reach out to our team or explore the Megaport blog.