Pacnet enhances Japan's network capabilities

Pacnet , one of Asia’s leading independent telecommunications service providers, has enhanced their backhaul capacity in the Kansai area to support growing domestic business continuity and disaster recovery demands. Capacity has been increased between its Osaka Point of Presence (PoP) and its cable landing station (CLS) in Shima while two new 10G waves have been added.

“Following the Japan earthquakes in March, many businesses in the Kanto region are currently under pressure to enhance their business continuity plans.

“Coupled with the limited power supply situation there, more are now looking towards moving their data centers to Western Japan as part of their BCDR plans,” said Wilfred Kwan, Chief Technology Officer, Pacnet.

“Our latest network enhancements are able to support this growing demand for hosting and connectivity in Western Japan, which is now a strategic part of many Japanese businesses’ BCDR plans.”

Utilising their Shima CLS, Pacnet has also enabled traffic from Western Japan to go directly out of Japan to Asia, doing away with the need for traffic to be routed terrestrially though Eastern Japan and out of Japan through their Ajigaura CLS. The shorter route now supports a reduction in network latency which improves the performance of their latency-sensitive applications.

Alternative routing delivers more resilient connectivity across the country which boosts the independent telecommunications service provider’s diversity in Japan.

“These latest initiatives are part of Pacnet’s continued investments into Japan, which is a strategic location for our operations,” said Hirofumi Tadokoro, Chief Executive Officer of Pacnet Japan.

Pacnet has already added a new PoP in Osaka to meet the growing demand for IP-based network services in Western and Central Japan, and enhance the resiliency of the telecommunications network provider’s operations in Japan by offering dual PoPs in Osaka.