The new facility is part of Pacnet's strategic plan to increase
investments into its Singapore operations and enhance regional
connectivity
SINGAPORE, Nov. 23 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Pacnet today announced the
launch of its Singapore Data Landing Station (DLS), the first data
center facility in Singapore with direct high speed connectivity
into Pacnet's pan-Asian subsea cable network, and part of the
company's plans to increase investments into Singapore.
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"With Singapore already a regional hub for many multinationals and
a growing infocomm industry that is worth some S$63 billion in
2009, we are increasing our planned investments into Singapore to
grow our operations here to tap the regional telecommunications
market," said Bill Barney, Chief Executive Officer of Pacnet.
"Besides our new Singapore DLS that is being launched today, we are
also looking at Singapore as a possible location for the
development of a larger 'Asia Gravity Center' data center facility
in the near future."
"We are also investing into our Singapore operations ahead of the
planned construction of our West Asia Crossing subsea cable, which
will deliver additional connectivity between India and Singapore
and bring more network traffic through Singapore," added Mr Barney.
Facilities in Singapore that will be upgraded include Pacnet's
Network Operations Centre, which currently oversees its global
network infrastructure.
Pacnet's newly launched Singapore DLS is part of the company's
growth strategy to tap the growing demand for data center services
which are coupled with the highest speed, lowest latency network
connections available. According to Frost & Sullivan, the
Singapore data center services market is expected to grow from
US$180.2 million to US$263.8 million in 2011, at a compound annual
growth rate of 13.5%.
The Singapore DLS, the first in the country and part of a regional
network of DLSs, is located at Pacnet's cable landing station in
Changi. The facility is a 3,300 square feet Tier III data center
and is the latest addition to the more than 96,200 square feet of
data center space that Pacnet has globally. As a carrier neutral
facility, the Singapore DLS also offers customers the flexibility
of choosing the domestic carrier of their choice to deliver
domestic connectivity to and from the DLS.
Pacnet's DLSs are unique in that they are the only data center
facilities that offer direct access to Pacnet's EAC-C2C subsea
cable, Asia's largest privately owned subsea network. The DLSs
leverage the power, space and network connectivity of existing
cable landing facilities to offer state-of-the-art data center
facilities including a high power density of up to 8 KVA per
cabinet, fully redundant power and cooling systems, advanced fire
detection and suppression systems as well as 24 x 7 security access
systems.
Through the Pacnet DLSs in Singapore and Hong Kong, Pacnet is able
to deliver the lowest latency connection between a data center in
Singapore and a data center in Hong Kong. Additionally, customers
are also able to get high capacity, low latency connectivity across
Asia and the United States, with multiple resiliency options,
through Pacnet's EAC-C2C and EAC Pacific cable systems.
Pacnet's full ownership of both the DLSs and EAC-C2C also
guarantees rapid network and hosting scalability to meet the
rapidly growing business requirements of today's enterprises,
whilst providing customers the added convenience of a single point
of contact.
About Pacnet
Named "Company of the Year for Excellence in Growth" by Frost &
Sullivan in 2009 and "Best Wholesale Carrier" at the Telecom Asia
Awards 2009, Pacnet is Asia's leading independent
telecommunications service provider, formed from the operational
merger of Asia Netcom and Pacific Internet. Pacnet owns and
operates EAC-C2C, Asia's largest privately-owned submarine cable
network at 36,800 km, with a design capacity of 17.92 Tbps to 30.72
Tbps to and from each of the landing countries, as well as EAC
Pacific, which spans 9,620 km across the Pacific Ocean and delivers
up to 1.92 Tbps of capacity between Asia and North America. The
company offers a comprehensive portfolio of industry leading
IP-based solutions for carriers, large enterprises and SMEs. Pacnet
is headquartered in Hong Kong and Singapore, with offices in all
key markets in Asia and North America. For more information, please
visit: http://www.pacnet.com .
For more information, please contact:
Lorain Wong
Pacnet
Tel: +852-2121-2973
Email: [email protected]
Roland Lim
Pacnet
Tel: +852-2121-2975
Email: [email protected]
SOURCE Pacnet