1-Net has signed agreements with CyberCSF in Indonesia and TCC Technology (TCCT) in Thailand to expand its network in Southeast Asia.
The company has also tied up with PCCW Global, the international operating division of HKT, for further expansion into Hong Kong.
This collaboration will enable the three data centers to connect back to 1-Net in Singapore to form a strategic inter-connection, allowing them to cache high demand applications and content on their networks to enhance security, connectivity and reliability.
It aligns with Singapore’s Infocomm Media Masterplan, where Singapore is positioned as a “Digital Harbour” to drive more data, content and digital services into Singapore through the inter-connectivity of data centers.
Using Singapore as a data center hub in this agreement, all partners will have the option to connect to all participating data centers directly through a “Data Center Corridor”. This will enable 1-Net, CyberCSF, TCCT and PCCW Global to easily access domestic and international markets more rapidly; this will in turn improve the customers’ network experience at lower latency and cost.
“Global data center traffic growth will be almost tripled by 2018, and the introduction of the data center corridor will be the key catalyst for this growth. With this new initiative, businesses can now focus on what’s important, knowing that their back-end IT is taken care of,” said Wong Ka Vin, Managing Director of 1-Net.
PCCW Global also entered a strategic alliance with 1-Net, enabling their customers to have access to comprehensive portfolio of data center services, cloud, network and security solutions through their combined data center footprint across Asia. A similar agreement was also signed between 1-Net, Cyber CSF and TCCT earlier in October 2014.
1-Net North, an upcoming data center by 1-Net, was also announced in June this year and will be completed in early 2016. The facility will be Singapore’s first data center to be certified with Tier III standards for Tier Certification of Design Documents and Tier Certification of Constructed Facility by Uptime Institute, an independent data center research, education, and consulting organization.