Turbidite Announces Development of Turbidite Guam
March 07 2021 - 1:00PM
Business Wire
Joint venture with IT&E to deploy a
state-of-the-art Tier III+ IDC in Guam to serve as a central IX for
inbound cables destined for Asia.
Turbidite, Asia’s newest pan-Asian edge data center platform,
today announced the Turbidite Guam development project, a joint
venture with IT&E, a subsidiary of Prospector Pacific. This
marks the first in a series of key initiatives by Turbidite as the
company continues to progressively roll out edge data centers in
strategic locations across Asia Pacific.
“Over the past year, there has been an increase in connectivity
requirements through Guam, which is the lowest latency point of US
soil to the growing economies of Asia Pacific,” said Bill Barney,
Chief Executive Officer of Turbidite. “Increasingly, tech companies
are looking for highly connected and secure carrier-neutral data
centers to store their edge nodes. Turbidite Guam will build a
central IX for inbound cables destined for Asia.”
“We’ve reached an inflection point in the development of
frontier interconnection markets,” said Jon Hjembo, Director of
Data Center Research, Telegeography. “Across Asia Pacific, booming
demand for lower latency access to content now coincides with
increasing geopolitical concerns about over-reliance on traditional
hubs. As international operators look toward the network frontier,
the race is on to build distributed and intermeshed interconnection
nodes across the region.”
“We forecast the demand on the Trans-Pacific route will increase
8-fold between 2021 and 2027. To meet these requirements, numerous
new cable systems are being planned,” Hjembo added.
“We look forward to teaming up with Turbidite to build this
long-awaited new facility in Guam,” said Jim Beighley, CEO of
Prospector Pacific. “Upon completion, Turbidite Guam will be a main
anchor point to release the bottleneck we are currently
experiencing in this market, enabling us to provide added value to
our existing and prospective customers.”
Design and planning are underway to convert the current IT&E
brownfield building into a state-of-the-art 3 MW Tier III+ data
center with future expansion to 10 MW capacity. The new facility,
will feature open Meet-Me rooms with fiber-on-demand to all current
and future cable landing stations in Guam. Turbidite Guam will
provide comprehensive value-added services, to support
multinational corporations, large Internet companies and other
hyperscalers who wish to establish or enhance footprints in the
Asia Pacific region. The new facility is expected to be operational
in 2022.
About Turbidite
Turbidite launched on 3 March 2021, with focus on the
development of a wide network of international-standard edge data
centers across multiple Asia Pacific countries. Founded by industry
veterans Bill Barney and Wilfred Kwan, Turbidite is backed by New
World Development, a leading Hong Kong and China property
conglomerate. www.turbidite.com
About IT&E
IT&E, the largest wireless carrier with the widest 4G LTE
Network coverage in Guam and the Marianas, is a joint venture
between Prospector Pacific and SK Telecom - Korea’s leading Telco
and data services provider. Prospector Pacific is jointly owned by
Citadel Pacific Limited, a leading investor in the Philippines and
the region with investments in energy, real estate, and retail and
Ontario Teacher’s Pension Plan (OTPP) the largest single-profession
pension plan in Canada.
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