Sultanate eyed as communications hub

Brunei is connected to at least nine countries directly in Southeast Asia which will be able to benefit from BIG’s hosting of NTT’s Global IP Gateway routers, said Siew Yoong Hing, the deputy general manager of BIG. BIG and NTT Com entered into a business collaboration agreement to deploy the first global Tier-1 IP Gateway in Brunei, which promises to enhance Internet access environment in the country and the surrounding region. “BIG is bandwidth rich with gigabits of capacity, and we will certainly keep on improving the picture. We can keep on adding more cable systems to make it a very resilient network,” said Hing. He added that big purchasers of NTT solutions such as Thailand and Vietnam, now directly connected to Brunei, can also benefit from BIG’s new solution.