Info highway company UIH to invest up to Bt1 billion

The firm also targets revenue growing at 10 per cent to Bt3.8 billion in 2015.

Sunti Medhavikul, a senior deputy managing director of United Information Highway, said yesterday that UIH provides network infrastructure to support over 10 telecom providers in Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar.

The customers use its gateway service to connect with the outside world.

UIH does business in five main areas: data communications; Internet service provision to support governments, organisations and businesses; international gateways; total solutions such as Wi-Fi solutions for businesses; and management of network or outsourcing services, focusing on organisations and businesses.

The firm’s fibre-optic network covers about 60,000 square kilometres nationwide and by the end of this year, it will be expanded to 70,000 square kilometres.

Next quarter the firm will launch two more services – cloud computing and content delivery networks, or content distribution networks.

CDNs are large distributed systems of servers deployed in multiple data centres across the Internet. The goal of a CDN is to serve content to end-users with high availability and high performance.

CDNs serve a large part of Internet content today, including web objects (text, graphics, scripts), downloadable objects (media files, software, documents), applications (e-commerce, portals), live streaming media, on-demand streaming media and social networks.

The firm’s revenue last year was Bt3.5 billion, of which 80 per cent was from the data communication and Internet service provider businesses.

The rest came from international gateways, total solutions and network service management.

About 75 per cent of its revenue comes from organisations or businesses and 25 per cent from the government.