Pacnet’s equity joint venture in China, Pacnet Business Solutions, has been awarded an Internet Data Center (IDC) license by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) in that country to provide data center network services in Chongqing, China.
This will expand Pacnet’s data center network footprint in China, which also includes data centers and network points of presence (PoPs) in Shenzhen, Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu and Xi’an.
“Chongqing is the most important megacity in Southwest China and a very important hub for Pacnet’s data center network not only throughout China, but also the rest of the Asia-Pacific region,” said Henry Lam, CEO of PBS.
Pacnet is the first foreign invested company to have been issued a license to provide data center network services in Chongqing, China, following the MIIT’s announcement in December 2012 to resume the grant of new IDC licenses. The new license process is stringent, reiterating MIIT’s goals to strengthen and monitor the IDC market in order to foster a healthy development of the Internet industry in China. The process requires an evaluation of four major systems maintained by license applicants, namely, Internet Content Provider Record-keeping Management; Accessing Resource Management; Information Security Management; and Datacenter Operation Security Management.
“This new IDC license provides us the ability to expand our data center footprint to complement our highly reliable Internet bandwidth and IPVPN services both in and out of the region,” Lam added.
Pacnet’s Tier 3 data center in Chongqing was built on its infrastructure in Asia-Pacific, combining direct access to PoPs in China and its wholly-owned subsea cable network. It is a self-managed facility capable of holding 2,000 racks of carrier-neutral colocation to providers and businesses in the region.
