At A Glance

Nuntawat Chotvijit, fourth from right, marketing director of AEON Thana Sinsap (Thailand), and Prassanee Ouiyamaphan, fifth from right, executive vice president of Bangkok Bank, award the first prize of gold bullion worth Bt100,000 and the second prize of a 50 satang gold necklace to winners of the “Get A Chance to Win Gold with AEON” promotional campaign. The competition was available to AEON Your Cash card holders who made cash withdrawals of at least Bt1,000 at Bangkok Bank’s ATMs between May 1 and June 30.

Nokia strikes deal with INET for data centres

Nokia has provided its DCI solution for Internet Thailand Public Company Ltd. (INET), marking one of the first long-haul DCI solutions in the country. Nokia’s Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) technology will connect INET’s two data centres in Bangkok to a site in Saraburi.
 In keeping with the trend of Big Data, where major global customers are expanding their data hosting plans, INET has seen its data centre business grow significantly over the past few years. The ICT solutions provider invested in multiple data centre sites to support this growing demand, necessitating massive data connection requirements between sites to keep customer data secured and managed, with a better total cost of ownership.
 Nokia has deployed its DCI solution in conjunction with reseller Teohong Silom Co Ltd, helping INET introduce multiple types of data centre interfaces and data rates to existing and new customers, thus assuring a reliable network. The solution is based on the 1830 Photonic Service Switch (PSS) and managed by the Network Services Platform. The 1830 PSS is a high-performance Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) platform that delivers the capacity, security and control required for long-haul data centre networks.
Wanchai Vach-shewadumrong, deputy managing director for Internet Thailand Public Company Ltd, said: “As a leading ICT solutions provider that is growing its data centre business, we were faced with the challenge of connecting multiple sites spread over increasing distances. A simple dark fibre connection proved insufficient for scaling the business, therefore we evaluated several DCI solutions in the market.
“Nokia’s product features and reliability, along with strong support from the local team, gives us the confidence we need to freely expand our datacentre capacity without the constraint of any interconnection bandwidth.”

QTC signs agreement to explore Lao investments

Poonphiphat Tantanasin, chief executive of QTC Energy Public Company Limited, said the company has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Chaleun Sekong Group Company Limited (CSG), a Lao company engaged in hydropower projects in that country.
CSG owns several such projects in Lao. CSG has granted QTC an exclusive right to conduct due diligence on an opportunity to invest in two hydropower projects with an aggregated installed capacity of 164 megawatts in Lao.
 CSG agreed to not engage or enter into an agreement, whether directly or indirectly, with any third party during the exclusivity period. However, QTC is not obliged to invest in the two projects since the MOU is only a preliminary agreement to explore an opportunity to invest.
Moreover, the exploration of the opportunity to invest in both hydropower projects is in line with the business plan of QTC to extend its business to electricity generation and distribution business to allocate risk of relying on source of income from manufacturing and distributing electricity transformer business, it said.