Sunday, March 1, 2009

Collocation & Data Center in Singapore

I've read somewhere that Tata will build a data center in Singapore. Somebody knows which data center / collocation center / "carrier hotel" operated where in Singapore ?? Please advise ... :-D
  • Equinix SGP 87,553 m2 (the new or old one??)
  • Equinix SGW2 28,548 m2 (the new or old one??)
  • Global Switch
  • KDDI's Telehouse
  • SingTel's STIX
  • Tata's ??
  • Other ??
It seems that STIX houses Telkom's and Indosat's , while Eqx houses Telkom's and Excelcomindo's PoP equipment ... cmiiw!



According to Oon/Eqx "Singapore grows as Interconnection & Peering hub" :
  • End point for various major cable systems
  • Uniquely positioned for traffic heading West (to Europe) and East (to North Asia and US)
  • Conveniently located for content delivery to rapidly emerging markets, India and China
  • De-regulated environment for interconnection and peering
Importance of Connecting to an IX/Major “Carrier Hotel”
  • Availability of capacity for growth
  • Availability of providers for network recovery & resilience
  • Access to peering : Improve network/routing efficiency, Easy to make routing changes, Evolving traffic profiles
  • Commercial considerations : Buying of services, Selling of services
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Still quoting Oon/Eqx : Cost of international capacity falling dramatically over the past 10 years
  • US$10,000/month for 64k IPLC Asia-US in 1996
  • US$10,000/month for STM1 IPLC Asia-US in 2006
  • Over 2000x!

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