TCC Technology, 1-Net and United Information Highway Co. sign MoU to connect Indochina

TCC Technology (TCCT), Thailand’s carrier-neutral data centre services provider and 1-Net, an infocomm technology solutions provider from Singapore, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with United Information Highway Co. (UIH), a leader in high speed communications networks, in late November. 

Source: 1-Net. From left: Wong Ka Vin, Managing Director of 1-Net Singapore, Col. Ruangsub Kovindha, Managing Director, United Information Highway Co. and Voradis Vinyaratn, Executive Director and Acting Managing Director of TCC Technology (TCCT).

The MoU will enable stable connectivity via UIH's secured network, which has extensive coverage areas nationwide and is certified with international standards such as The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) and Thailand Data Communications Service of the Year, for two consecutive years.

TCCT and 1-Net will combine their marketing activities via UIH’s high speed fibre network and core nodes to connect Bangkok and Singapore, providing international voice, data, and other telecommunication services. Voice and data traffic can originate or terminate in Thailand or Singapore to support the systems and services running in the TCCT’s and 1-Net’s data centres.

1-Net, TCCT, and UIH offer data centres supported by eastern and southern routes within the strategic Indochina area, a region connecting North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific with Southern Asia. This Sub-Mekong district region has a large pool of labour, easy access to raw materials and attractive tax incentives for businesses.

Col. Ruangsub Kovindha, Managing Director, UIH said, "1–Net and TCCT are leading data centre service providers in Singapore and Thailand. With this borderless southern route connectivity covering Thailand, Singapore, and connected to Hong Kong, this regional collaboration will create beyond-standard services in the regional data centre and connectivity industry like never before. 

"Apart from connectivity from Thailand to Singapore, UIH is also ready with other available routes connecting between Thailand and other countries, in particular the PoP which UIH launched in Hong Kong in the 3rd quarter of 2014, supporting Thai enterprises expanding businesses in the countries within Asia and worldwide."

Wong Ka Vin, Managing Director of 1-Net Singapore, said that the partnership is key to enabling faster connectivity between Singapore and Thailand. "This initiative is in line with the 'Data Center Corridor' concept in Singapore’s Infocomm Masterplan. 1-Net has been working closely with TCCT and UIH to expand our network in Indochina to achieve seamless connectivity, to create a data centre ecosystem which will benefit our customers with lower latency and cost.”

Voradis Vinyaratn, Executive Director and Acting Managing Director of TCC Technology (TCCT) said the MoU in effect creates a Regional Satellite Data Centre Network with redundant sites that businesses expanding into IndoChina can leverage on. "In the future TCCT will extend network capacity from Thailand to the western and northern parts. This will help highlight TCCT's position of (being a) 'Carrier - Neutral Regional Hub', directly benefiting enterprises, content providers, telcos, and ISPs,” he said.