Apr, 2002 : SingTel Expands Hosting Network in Asia Pacific
📅 - Major Asian communications company Singapore Telecommunications Limited (singtel.com) announced on Monday that it will complete its roll out of regional data centers in Asia Pacific when it launches its SingTel EXPAN suite of managed hosting services in Sydney, Australia next month.
The completion of the rollout, says the company, will make SingTel the region's leading operator in the managed hosting market, with a total of 380,000 square feet of space over 10 data centers in six countries.
SingTel calls the EXPAN network the most extensive in Asia, comprised of three Singapore data centers, two in Hong Kong, two in Japan and one in each of Korea, Taiwan and Australia. The data centers are linked through SingTel's submarine cable systems, which include the C2C cable network. Through marketing alliances with local partners, says SingTel, EXPAN is also available in markets like China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand.
"The regional market for hosting services is worth about $604.1 million today, growing to about $1.37 billion by 2005,? says Mary Ong, SingTel's CEO of managed hosting services. ?We have set ourselves a target of eight per cent market share or an annual revenue of about $110 million in three years' time." The company says it expects about two thirds of this revenue to come from Singapore, Japan, Hong Kong and Australia.
The EXPAN service is designed to allow multinational corporations and Internet-related business in the Asia Pacific region to outsource the operations of their communication network, IT systems and Web hosting to SingTel. The company says more than 65 per cent of its 300,000 square feet of Singapore data center space has been leased.
SingTel says its experience as a telecommunications company has set it apart from other players in the region's managed hosting market. The company's full range of telecommunications services, bandwidth and IT support services allow its customers to outsource all of their network and IT operations, across multiple sites, under a single contract and supported by a single service level agreement.
According to SingTel, the company is also the first in the region to join Hewlett-Packard's Service Provider Program, under which HP offers its skills and experience to help partners build and managed data centers. The program includes training and joint marketing efforts, and HP has certified SingTel's data centers as meeting stringent standards in provisioning and supporting managed IT services.
The completion of the rollout, says the company, will make SingTel the region's leading operator in the managed hosting market, with a total of 380,000 square feet of space over 10 data centers in six countries.
SingTel calls the EXPAN network the most extensive in Asia, comprised of three Singapore data centers, two in Hong Kong, two in Japan and one in each of Korea, Taiwan and Australia. The data centers are linked through SingTel's submarine cable systems, which include the C2C cable network. Through marketing alliances with local partners, says SingTel, EXPAN is also available in markets like China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand.
"The regional market for hosting services is worth about $604.1 million today, growing to about $1.37 billion by 2005,? says Mary Ong, SingTel's CEO of managed hosting services. ?We have set ourselves a target of eight per cent market share or an annual revenue of about $110 million in three years' time." The company says it expects about two thirds of this revenue to come from Singapore, Japan, Hong Kong and Australia.
The EXPAN service is designed to allow multinational corporations and Internet-related business in the Asia Pacific region to outsource the operations of their communication network, IT systems and Web hosting to SingTel. The company says more than 65 per cent of its 300,000 square feet of Singapore data center space has been leased.
SingTel says its experience as a telecommunications company has set it apart from other players in the region's managed hosting market. The company's full range of telecommunications services, bandwidth and IT support services allow its customers to outsource all of their network and IT operations, across multiple sites, under a single contract and supported by a single service level agreement.
According to SingTel, the company is also the first in the region to join Hewlett-Packard's Service Provider Program, under which HP offers its skills and experience to help partners build and managed data centers. The program includes training and joint marketing efforts, and HP has certified SingTel's data centers as meeting stringent standards in provisioning and supporting managed IT services.
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