IP Transit service is your gateway to the Internet and a host of new opportunities to expand your business, gain new customers, and increase profitability. The success of your IP Transit strategy depends on which provider you choose to consider for IP Transit services. Here are five traits you should look for in your IP Transit provider before investing in them.

IP Transit services enable organisations, ISPs and telecom companies to reach the wider Internet and provide faster, better, and uninterrupted access.

But in order to ensure that, you need to partner with an IP Transit provider who has robust offerings, a secure IP Transit gateway, interconnections with other Tier 1 providers, extensive reachability, and reliable support that is able to scale with your company’s needs and growth.

Here are five traits that you must look for in your IP Transit provider before investing in their services.

1. Global and Regional Reachability

Tier 1 ISPs are in the driver’s seat of global and regional Internet connectivity. A Tier 1 network can reach every other network on the Internet with its own infrastructure.

This allows organisations to handle traffic at high volumes, with a stable performance level, irrespective of connecting between two states or two continents. Tier 1 providers are usually large ISPs that can offer robust networking power at affordable and competitive prices.

The TM WHOLESALE Advantage: TM WHOLESALE, one of biggest regional service providers in Asia, offers extensive reachability and connectivity to ensure optimum service performance.

2. Extensive Points of Presence

Points of Presence (POPs) is where two or more networks or communication devices share a connection.

Partner with a provider who has extensive PoPs and wide reachability. This enables low latency between regions.

The more number of PoPs a provider has, the more resilient and redundant your connectivity becomes. This also ensures you take advantage of multiple protection paths and diverse routing options.

The TM WHOLESALE Advantage: TM WHOLESALE’s core IP backbone network spans 28 major cities around the world. It has over 6Tbps of global IP backbone and peering capacities which is diversely routed on different submarine fibre cables and focused on providing connectivity within and to/from Asia.

3. Owns a Single ASN

Autonomous System Number (ASN) is a globally unique number that defines the path to the owner’s network.

You need one ASN for global operations. Most of the big global networks operate a single-AS strategy.

Partnering with a provider who has a single ASN enables you to get a direct interconnect with Amazon AWS, or the Microsoft Azure Peering Service (MAPS), or other cloud platforms.

Providers with single ASN have the freedom to control performance settings between two paths and decide which route is faster to reach target networks. This leads to full independence, redundancy, and allows them to choose the upstream most suitable for their—and in turn, yours—own setup.

The TM WHOLESALE Advantage: TM IP Transit service is specifically designed to provide a very high performance of global and regional connectivity through a single ASN (AS4788). TM single ASN4788 network enables global reachability and regional connectivity. AS4788 network reaches more destinations and ensures short hop connectivity.

4. Enables Robust Security with Clean Pipe

The public internet is prone to DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks. In fact, worldwide, DDoS attacks are among the top 10 cyber threats.

Clean Pipe is specifically designed to detect DDoS attacks. Clean Pipe defends against volumetric attack and application-layer attacks. On-premise network security, on the other hand, only handles threats once they have reached your network. Clean Pipe detects and prevents them before they reach the network.

For businesses handling sensitive data, Clean Pipe enables DDoS protection and also protects transactions and applications.

The TM WHOLESALE Advantage: TM WHOLESALE provides Value Added Services with its IP Transit that includes Clean Pipe.

5. Provides Direct Peering

When providers partner with other ISPs and directly connect to their networks, they reduce the number of steps or hops they need to reach their final destination.

Direct peering is an interconnection of two separate networks to exchange traffic directly. Essentially, your company’s provider, let’s call this network A, connects directly to another CDN or ISP, such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud, network B. Once Network A and B are connected, these two networks communicate directly with one another.

As the name suggests, Direct Peering connections bypass the public Internet to provide direct access to CDNs and ISPs, reducing latency and improving overall network

performance. It ensures your Internet connectivity doesn’t get disrupted despite the usage of popular applications.

The TM WHOLESALE Advantage: TM WHOLESALE provides direct peering services with major Internet backbones and content providers.

TM WHOLESALE is a leading Malaysian telecom service provider that offers IP Transit services via AS4788 with regional upstream, direct peering, content localisation and Tier 1 capabilities and valued added services such as Clean Pipe and Selective Routing features.

TM WHOLESALE has the largest Internet subscriber base in Malaysia, and is one of the biggest regional ISPs in Asia. TM owns close to 30 submarine cables spanning 300,000 km worldwide. It offers extensive global reachability and direct connectivity to the Internet.

That’s why organisations that want a fast, reliable, and secure IP Transit connection should consider partnering with TM WHOLESALE and benefit from its extensive reachability, secure services, and more.