HONG KONG, warta9.com – The number one data centre provider and connectivity hub in Hong Kong, today, March, 14- 2022 announced that the company has won the tender for a site in Chung Hom Kok, Hong Kong (“RBL1219”). This site will be used to develop SUNeVision’s second landing station for international submarine cables, following its first landing station, “HKIS-1”, launched last year. The addition of cable landing stations to its data centre portfolio will further strengthen SUNeVision’s position as the leading connectivity hub in Asia.
Unprecedented international subsea capacity demand
Quoting a press release sent by Media OutReach to the editor of Warta9, Monday (14 March 2022). Global data traffic continues to grow at an unprecedented rate, to 4.8ZB per year, by 2022. Asia has experienced one of the highest demand growth in international bandwidth, growing at a CAGR of over 40% between 2017 and 2021. International subsea cables today collectively drive 99% of the intercontinental traffic, functioning as the most critical backbone for global connectivity. Cable landing stations serve as an important infrastructure linking each of the cities along which the cable systems route.
Hong Kong as hub for Asia and gateway for China
Located in the centre of Asia, Hong Kong is one of the most important regional data transit hubs and international gateway to/from mainland China. Hong Kong continued to rank Top 10 globally by data capacity, due to its geographic advantages and well-established global interconnection infrastructure. In fact, SUNeVision’s MEGA-i in Hong Kong is the most carrier-dense colocation site in the world, enabling customers to interconnect to more than 200+ connectivity partners who have physically established its points-of-presence (PoPs) in SUNeVision’s colocation facilities.
