Colt, a high bandwidth network provider, will make investment to expand the Colt IQ Network in Singapore and Hong Kong in 2017.
The strategy of Colt is to make significant investment in Asia over the next three years.
Colt will be making investment in a large-scale expansion of existing coverage, provisioning of high-bandwidth capacity, and new digging projects for its next-generation fibre in Singapore.
The company said its network expansion, comprising both Optical and Ethernet architecture, will provide high-bandwidth services to major buildings and data centers across Asia – addressing the bandwidth demands from digital and data-intensive industries.
Colt will have fully-owned fibre metro networks in key Asian cities including Tokyo, Osaka and Singapore and major European cities.
Colt will start its Singapore-based initiatives in April, while the network expansion in Kong and other Asian cities will be in 2017 and beyond.
Recently, the network company launched the Colt IP Access Service, expanded etherXEN for AWS connectivity, and introduced Colt E-LAN Services for the Singaporean market in the second half of 2016.
Colt will enhance investments by adding key submarine cable routes to its backbone and increasing core resiliency, boosting the reliability of its intelligent network. It will support the requirements of key sectors like capital markets, manufacturing, and the growing bandwidth requirements linked to the Internet of Things and smart cities.
Colt will link businesses in Singapore and Hong Kong directly to international cities including Busan, Tokyo, Sydney, Chicago, New York, London, Frankfurt and Paris via its own intelligent global network.
The Colt IQ Network is a 100Gbps optimised network distributed to 200+ data centers and carrier hotels around the world and optimised for SDN, NFV and cloud services.
“We continue to make investment with our Singapore and Hong Kong expansions, which are designed to deliver the advantages of speed, security, and reliability to businesses looking to connect to markets in Asia and beyond,” said Kenji Hioki, CCO Asia at Colt Technology Services.
Colt will be demonstrating its high bandwidth solutions at PTC’17 in the company’s meeting room at Hilton Hawaiian Village, Tapa Tower, Room #1530 in Honolulu, Hawaii, 15-18 January 2017.
Colt provides high bandwidth services for enterprises and wholesale customers in Europe, Asia and North America’s largest business hubs. Colt IQ Network connects over 700 data centers, with over 24,500 on-net buildings and growing.
Colt has 19 of the top 25 global telecoms companies and 18 out of the top 25 media companies (Forbes 2000 list, 2016) amongst its customers.
