HGC, AMS-IX and IGC launch a new Internet Exchange in Bangkok Thailand - Yahoo Finance

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, /PRNewswire/ -- HGC Global Communications Limited (HGC), a fully-fledged ICT work supplier and web relation with extended planetary coverage, AMS-IX (Amsterdam Internet Exchange), the satellite starring Internet Exchange (IX), and International Gateway Company Limited (IGC), a neutral determination telecommunication and web work provider, contiguous denote the motorboat of a caller IX, AMS-IX Bangkok, successful Thailand arsenic portion of AMS-IX strategy to instrumentality IX's successful assorted cardinal locations successful Asia.

Thailand is simply a accelerated processing and important Asian Internet hub and 1 of the premier locations wherever Internet companies speech Internet postulation too Singapore and Hong Kong. The caller Internet Exchange located astatine Bangkok, which is the hub and gateway of the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS), volition amended the prime of Internet connections of companies specified as content providers, gaming, OTTs, unreality work providers and net work providers and aims to physique a thriving integer community.

Customers connected to the caller Internet Exchange volition payment from little cognition costs and enhanced connectivity and redundancy arsenic good arsenic little latency. Nearly 250 cardinal eyeballs successful this subcontinent of GMS including Cambodia, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, and Thailand tin present bask an uplifted online experience.

By adding different IXP, HGC and AMS-IX, with the enactment of IGC, person further accrued their planetary footprint and improved the connectivity successful Asia. Next to Bangkok, HGC besides partners with AMS-IX successful Singapore, Hong Kong, Bay Area and Chicago. HGC volition proceed to service arsenic a commercialized spouse and selling limb for AMS-IX Bangkok, portion IGC provides IX infrastructure, network, and cognition successful Bangkok. AMS-IX, with their expertise connected peering and web monitoring, volition springiness method enactment and has operational absorption of the exchange.

"Being an aboriginal entrant into the Thailand market, we consciousness honored to summation penetration into the Greater Mekong Subregion with our renowned spouse - AMS-IX. This is simply a rite of transition for the enhancement of the HGC edgeX marque to beryllium positioned arsenic a premium person successful engaging the net speech concern to lend to a amended interconnection ecosystem which is babelike connected the accelerated improvement of integer transformation. We anticipation to person promoted entree to a digitalized satellite by localizing postulation successful this increasing market.", said, Mr. Chirawat Mahawat, Vice President Greater Mekong Subregion of HGC.

"Bangkok is strategically located astatine the bosom of Southeast Asia which makes it perfect arsenic an planetary hub for exchanging Internet postulation and a cleanable determination arsenic a gateway to the GMS. There are implicit 54 cardinal Internet users successful Thailand, representing 80 percent of the population, and this fig is inactive rising rapidly.  As AMS-IX we're blessed to collaborate with our partners, HGC and IGC, to bring effect to our ngo of expanding the prime of the Internet worldwide by processing and gathering Internet Exchanges.", said, Mr. Onno Bos, International Partnership Director of AMS-IX.

"With notation to the announcement from the Thai authorities connected being ASEAN DIGITAL HUB, we are delighted to beryllium portion of the instauration of AMS-IX to Thailand which volition foster to execute specified integer translation policy. The customers volition acquisition amended Internet services successful word of little latency, amended accessibility to much assortment of contents. By having AMS-IX operating successful Thailand, unneurotic with IGC's IX and web infrastructure successful Thailand, it will beryllium a cardinal magnet to fortify the Thai authorities policy. Certainly, the integer ecosystem, specified arsenic contented providers, OTT, ISP and extremity users volition summation overmuch amended work experiences and encouraging their sustainable eyeballs." Mr. Pichit Satapattayanont, Chief Executive Officer of IGC said.

From Left to Right: Chirawat Mahawat, Vice President Greater Mekong Subregion of HGC; Onno Bos, International Partnership Director of AMS-IX; Pichit Satapattayanont, Chief Executive Officer of IGC

About HGC Global Communications Limited

HGC Global Communications Limited (HGC) is simply a starring Hong Kong and planetary telecom relation and ICT solution provider. The institution owns an extended web and infrastructure successful Hong Kong and overseas and provides assorted kinds of services. HGC has 30 overseas offices, with concern implicit 5 continents. It provides telecom infrastructure work to different operators and serves arsenic a work supplier to firm and households. The institution provides full-fledged telecom, information centre services, ICT solutions and broadband services for local, overseas, corporate, SME and wide markets. HGC owns and operates an extended fibre-optic network, 5 cross-border telecom routes integrated into tier-one telecom operators successful mainland China and connects with hundreds of world-class planetary telecom operators. HGC is 1 of Hong Kong's largest Wi-Fi work providers, moving implicit 29,000 Wi-Fi hotspots successful Hong Kong. The institution is committed to further investing and enriching its existent infrastructure and, successful parallel, adding connected apical the latest technologies and processing its infrastructure services and solutions. In 2019, HGC Group completed the acquisition of Macroview Telecom Limited (Macroview), a starring integer exertion solution and managed services provider. The summation of Macroview further accelerates HGC Group's integer translation way and positioning arsenic a pioneering ICT and integer services leader. HGC is simply a portfolio institution of I Squared Capital, an autarkic planetary infrastructure concern manager focusing connected energy, utilities and transport successful North America, Europe and selected fast-growing economies.

To larn more, delight sojourn HGC's website at: www.hgc.com.hk

About AMS-IX

AMS-IX (Amsterdam Internet Exchange) is simply a neutral member-based relation that operates aggregate interconnection platforms astir the world. Our starring level successful Amsterdam has been playing a important relation astatine the halfway of the net for much than 25 years and is 1 of the largest hubs for net postulation successful the satellite with implicit 11 Terabits per 2nd (Tbps) of highest traffic. Connecting to AMS-IX ensures customers specified arsenic net work providers, telecom companies and unreality providers that their planetary IP postulation is routed successful an efficient, fast, secure, unchangeable and cost-effective way. This allows them to connection debased latency and engaging online experiences for end-users. AMS-IX interconnects much than 1000 IP-networks successful the world.

AMS-IX besides manages the world's archetypal mobile peering points: the Global Roaming Exchange (GRX), the Mobile Data Exchange (MDX) and the Internetwork Packet Exchange (I-IPX) interconnection points.

More information: www.ams-ix.net

About International Gateway Company Limited

International Gateway Company Limited oregon IGC is simply a subsidiary of ALT Telecom Plc., a neutral determination telecommunication and web work provider.  IGC was established successful twelvemonth 2017 to supply wholesale bandwidth for some home and planetary postulation via SRT (State Railway of Thailand) and its nationwide web (so-called GMS network) which has wholly astir 12,000 km of nationwide-optical fibre web and owns NNI (Network to Network Interface) for 15 Crossing Borders to link with 24 operators surrounding Thailand and extended connectivity to much than 10 well-known information halfway successful Thailand. Moreover, the Open Access License with 5 CLSs (Cable Landing Station) which located successful the astir strategical locations for the Submarine Business successful Thailand. With Submarine cablegram web it volition let IGC to play a large relation successful the Eastern Economic Corridor Project and span the Submarine postulation to the GMS Terrestrial network.

Visit america online at www.intergateway.co.th and link america connected LinkedIn: International Gateway(IGC)

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