This post is closely related to the previous one, except that here we discuss about Internet traffic not about bandwidth capacity. I found an interesting statement given by a REACH official:
Recently, Telegeography has published some information and facts for the telecommunication's world in the last year. One of the facts is related to the international IP bandwidth as given in the picture (at the top).
Update - the illustration at the right is possibly inaccurate! Some people said that BRCS is not through Melacca strait; it connects Batam and Rengit at the right-side of Johor. It is definitely not Rengit as you can see on the illustration. Sorry for this! :-)
I remembered when I was a teenager, the government was proposing a national broadband network called Nusantara-21 (N21). In an official document of the goverment, this concept was issued in 1988 (Wow!), about three years after Singapore launched its national IT plan. But I didn't hear it before the time where Singapore began its initiative SingaporeONE and Malaysia initiated the MSC project (surely several time after the Al Gore's 'Information Superhighway' speech :-D )
For economical, political, geographical and possibly many other reasons Singapore has established itself as a major telecommunication hub in Asia. Almost all international submarine cables to/from Asia pass through, terminate in or branch to Singapore. This includes e.g. SMW3, SMW4, FLAG, TIC, EAC, C2Ccn, APCN. Singapore has three cable landing points. Cable landing stations in Tuas serve for cables coming from the west (Europe, Middle East, South Asia). Cables going to the East Asia, ASEAN, Australia and the US are originated from either Changi (eastern Singapore) or Katong (south).
