Pacnet announced that it has increased the capacity between its Osaka Point of Presence (PoP) and its cable landing station (CLS) in Shima with the addition of two 10G waves, to meet the growing demand for connectivity as businesses enhance their business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) plans across Japan.
“Following the Japan earthquakes in March, many businesses in the Kanto region are currently under pressure to enhance their business continuity plans. Coupled with the limited power supply situation there, more are now looking towards moving their data centers to Western Japan as part of their BCDR plans,” said Wilfred Kwan, CTO of Pacnet.
Beyond expanding backhaul capacity, Pacnet has also enhanced its network to enable traffic from Western Japan to go directly out of Japan to Asia, through its Shima CLS. Previously, network traffic would need to be routed terrestrially through Eastern Japan, before leaving Japan through its Ajigaura CLS. With this shorter route, customers are able to benefit from a reduction in network latency, which improves the performance of their latency-sensitive applications.
Additionally, this route enhancement also boosts Pacnet’s network diversity in Japan by delivering alternative routing which delivers more resilient connectivity across the country.