With business seeing a considerable uptick in Malaysia region, NTT Ltd is building its sixth data center in Cyberjaya, said Transport Minister Datuk Seri Dr Wee Ka Siong.
In a Facebook post following a meeting with NTT Limited vice-president and network services director Yoshio Sato, Dr Wee said that the Intra-Asia Express Cable connecting Japan, the Philippines, Sarawak and Peninsular Malaysia was progressing well. This development was reported by TheStar.
“We welcome this positive development, and I am sure NTT will add much value to global cable connectivity and related industries in Malaysia. I assured (them) that the Transport Ministry (MOT) will continue to facilitate cable owners, including NTT, to invest in Malaysia in an effort to enhance our global connectivity,” he said, adding that he was given an update on the progress of the construction of NTT’s data centre at Cyberjaya.
Sato is currently on a short work visit to Malaysia. NTT is the consortium leader with involvement in two major Internet cables, Apricot and MIST. The Apricot cable system is a 12,000km subsea cable connecting Japan, Taiwan, Guam, the Philippines, Indonesia and Singapore through a state-of-the-art submersible reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer employing a wavelength selective switch for a grid-less and flexible bandwidth configuration, based on space division multiplexing design.
The Apricot consortium comprises Facebook, Google, Chunghwa Telecom (CHT), PLDT and NTT. MIST, includes Myanmar/Malaysia India Singapore Transit cable system, has a total length of 8,100km as it runs from Singapore to Malaysia to Myanmar to Thailand, all the way to India (Mumbai and Chennai).
The MIST cable system consists of 12 fibre pairs, with more than 216Tbps system capacity, with the investor being Orient Link Pte Ltd (OLL), a joint venture that also has NTT Ltd on board.
Apart from NTT, Malaysia has seen attraction from other data center operators. In April, TL Power International Berhad (“YTL Power”), an international multi-utility infrastructure group, and GDS Holdings Limited (“GDS”), a leading developer and operator of data centres in China, signed a partnership to co-develop 168MW of data centre capacity, across 8 individual data centre facilities, at the upcoming YTL Green Data centre Park in Johor, Malaysia.
Read more at : https://w.media/chinas-gds-and-ytl-to-partner-for-168mw-data-centre-in-malaysia/
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