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Data centers in Singapore
Singapore has multiple data centers serving a wide variety of domestic and
international customers. In some cases, these data centers are an independent business
unit, purely performing functions of a data center. However, in other cases, data center
represents an extension activity of their core business. Three of the largest and most
respected data centers in the country are those of SingTel, 1-Net Singapore, and Pacific
Net. A brief description of each follows.
Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel)
SingTel was incorporated in March 1992 and became a public company in
October 1993. It was listed on the Singapore Exchange in November 1993 and on the
Australian Stock Exchange in September 2001. It is the largest company listed on the
Singapore Exchange and has a market capitalization of about S$40 billion (US$24
billion) as of May 2004.
SingTel's has a highly developed international network which provides to her
customers direct connections from Singapore to more than 100 countries, as well as
second-to-third country connectivity. SingTel also operates a pan-Asian chain of
world-class data centers, providing a suite of managed hosting telecommunication
solutions branded as SXPAN. These data centers are located in Australia, Hong Kong,
Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Singapore. Over the years, SingTel has garnered numerous
awards for excellence of service, governance, leadership, profitability, etc. According to
a study commissioned by the Reputation Management Associates in 2006, SingTel
commands the second highest reputation amongst Singapore based corporations. Its’
core business comprises of internet service, mobile phone and fixed line telephony
services. In 2007, SingTel launched a pay TV service, named mio TV. It also maintains
ΣXPAN, a pan-Asian chain of data network centers which provide highly secure hosting
environment where customers can host their application and network systems, and have
access to high-end technologies and data centre resources. There are four ΣXPAN data
canters in Singapore alone. They are being used by both small and large companies such
as HP, Teckwah Online, Coffee Club, DFS Group, and popular internet travel site
Zuji. It has positioned itself as the source for meeting all the IT/Communication needs of
the entire country, be it a household, business, domestic or international customer.
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