TM Edge Gaming: Revolutionising Edge Gaming

If you do a quick search for edge computing use cases, you will not find a blog, research report, or a solution guide that doesn’t mention gaming.

There’s a good reason for that. Over the past two years, gaming as an industry has grown manifold. Globally, today, there are over 1.48 billion players and 55% of those are in the Asia Pacific region.

The advancement of gaming applications, the lockdowns induced by the pandemic, access to anywhere, anytime gaming, and an immersive, life-like gaming experience are some of the many drivers.

At the same time, edge computing has been quietly greasing its wheels to accelerate and enhance the gaming experience. In our previous blogs, you’ve read about the trends [link], in the gaming market that are shaping the gaming industry such as the rise of AR and VR, the advent of the multiverse and metaverse, etc. We also discussed the benefits [link] edge computing offers to the gaming industry and gamers. Some of them include, high bandwidth, better performance, and faster speed.

This is why, cloud gaming companies are looking to build edge servers as close to gamers as possible in order to provide a fully responsive and immersive gaming experience.

Gaming content suppliers can gain a huge financial incentive by avoiding paying high fees to distribute their games through gaming consoles. By offering the same games on the edge, they can reduce their distribution costs significantly.

But how does edge computing make that happen? It enables the distribution of gaming application processes at the edge of the network and as near to the user as possible. This enables faster data transmission, and significantly speeds up the gaming experience, compared to a larger, centralised data centre.

Today, edge gaming is becoming a hot favourite of ISPs and telcos, hyperscalers, game developers and OTTs.

And most of that action is happening in the Asia Pacific region. If you happen to be in Asia in the gaming industry, then you’re in the right place at the right time. Consider this: China is gradually becoming the hub of edge gaming research, where nine of the top 10 edge gaming companies that hold patents are in China.

Clearly, it is an imperative for gaming companies in Asia to partner with an edge gaming provider that understands the market, has extensive PoPs, and provides tremendous benefits to both gaming providers and end users.

Telekom Malaysia (TM), with its edge gaming offering is armed with everything you need.

TM Edge Gaming: Game Face On

TM Edge Gaming is a holistic edge gaming ecosystem that leverages TM’s edge facility located closer to the end user to provide a delightful digital gaming experience. TM Edge Gaming is compatible with all devices and operating systems and also provides API integration with ISPs for a smoother end user experience.

TM Edge Gaming covers both the infrastructure and service components that are essential for enhancing the gaming experience. TM’s edge facilities house GPU based PoPs and associated CPU switches. It also provides upstream and downstream connectivity and last-mile delivery. These infrastructure components are crucial for gaming companies to ensure faster download speeds and better performance. Its backend systems provide game server provisioning and customer base management, among others.

TM can double up as a telco provider and an edge gaming provider that delivers an end-to-end solution that ensures gaming services are always on. Another advantage of partnering with TM is that it is a major telco player in Southeast Asia, and can help gaming providers explore this new and emerging gaming market.

TM provides cloud gaming services, wherein, it is a game subscription service that allows customers to access a full library of online video games from multiple publishers.

It also provides access to eSports, which is a gaming community and an amalgamation of friendly competitive video games where teams or individuals compete against each other in a tournament for a reward.

TM Edge Gaming provides extensive benefits for both service providers and end users. Service providers can now pay-as-you-grow, scale capacity requirement, and go to market faster. TM Edge Gaming enables gamers to enjoy ultra-low latency gaming experiences with stable connectivity and faster streaming speeds. With edge gaming, gamers don’t have to download games to their devices, they can now play on-the-go and on any device of their choice.

All you have to do is partner with TM. It’s time to play in the big league. Start drafting your game plan with TM Edge Gaming today.