I am also pleased to announce the commercial launch of the Singapore Internet Exchange or SGIX -Mr Lui Tuck Yew, Acting Minister MICA
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CommunicAsia 2010
Jun 7
SGIX is excited to participate in CommunicAsia 2010. Do visit iDA booth at Hall 3, 3C-01.
Hope to see you there!
SGIX Procurement
Jan 8
To all prospective contractors,
SGIX is currently implementing its infrastructure and is looking for suitable service providers to outsource its network operation, connectivity and general administration. You are cordially invited to submit your offer for providing the above-stated services with the respective specifications, scope of work as well as the terms and conditions in the following Request-for-Proposals (RFP) and Request-for-Quotations (RFQ):
- RFP-0003: Network Management Services
- RFP-0004: Connectivity Services
- RFQ-0001: General Administrative Services
Kindly note that prospective contractors are required to submit the offer by 22 January 2010, 12:00pm and based on the format indicated in the respective RFP/RFQ documents.
* Please note that the RFP and RFQ are closed *
SGIX was recently featured on ZDNet Asia (10 December 2009, Thursday). It was reported that Singapore is in a good position to serve the growing market for data in the Asia-Pacific region; said Jay Bowker, vice president of sales for optical switch maker, Glimmerglass, he commented that an Internet Exchange serves as a “meeting place” that manages the flow of data between different Internet carriers.
Bowker added that “Singapore is already thought of as a technology hub. It would stand to reason that it should grow to be the dominant Internet-peering domain for the region.”
Bowker further commented that, a neutral facility would keep cost low thus allowing charges that are “little to nothing” for ISPs to connect, and this can eventually acts as a premium service to content providers like Google and Yahoo, giving them assured connectivity to ISP partners on the exchange.
SGIX convened its First Extraordinary General Meeting on 23 Oct 2009 and the Board Election was held.
SGIX would like to congratulate the appointment of the following members as the First Board of Directors:
- Mr. Malcolm Rodrigues, Nucleus Connect Pte. Ltd.
- Mr. Patrick Scodeller, MobileOne Ltd
- Mr. Yow Tau Keon, 1-Net Singapore Pte. Ltd.
- Mr. Mak Wei Seng, Singapore Telecommunications Ltd.
- Mr. Leong Peng Ham, StarHub Ltd.
- Mr. Tan Jin Siong, PacNet Internet (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
Singapore Internet Exchange Ltd. (SGIX) was incorporated on the 4 September 2009 with 11 founding members and it seeks to increase its membership to 15 by the end of the year. It will play a significant role in enabling the retail service providers (RSP) to deliver high-speed and bandwidth intensive applications and services to end users over the Next Gen NBN by providing a neutral and efficient central point of traffic exchange.