IP Transit services and internet exchanges (IX) are changing the way we communicate every day. They are opening up new opportunities for organisations to expand their reach, enhance customer experience, and increase profitability. Find out how IP Transit and IX are redefining business across the world. 

We are increasingly living in a connected world. The power of connectivity, brought about by the Internet, touches every fabric of our businesses and our lives so seamlessly that we no longer remember how the world existed so long without it. Today, it is the oxygen on which our economies, society, governance, and businesses run.

This became more evident when the COVID-19 pandemic hit us and brought the entire planet to a standstill.

But as they say, the show must go on. And, thanks to the Internet, it did.

It was, at a difficult time such as the pandemic, that we began to recognize the real significance of the Internet. Without the Internet, there would have been no semblance of business-as-usual. Without the Internet, work-from-home would have remained a distant dream. And without the Internet, businesses would have had to shut their doors and bid farewell to productivity, revenue, and profitability—even their existence.

But just the Internet was not going to cut it. Two forces came together to ensure businesses thrive in the new normal: IP Transit and Internet Exchanges (IX).

IP Transit is a service where an ISP allows traffic to pass through its network to reach the rest of the Internet—or its final destination. In order to access all Internet routes, businesses need to connect to all the autonomous systems out there. They need to avail the services of an ISP who has access to reach any network on the Internet.

At an Internet Exchange or IX, networks connect and exchange traffic, as the name suggests. It is a physical network access point through which primary network providers connect their networks and exchange traffic. The primary aim of an IX is to keep local Internet traffic within a confined area, improve the quality of service, and cut costs. Simply put, an IX offers a neutral local network where any carrier, ISP or network operator can connect and exchange traffic.

Let’s look at how IP Transit and IX empower businesses with a host of advantages.
 

The Benefits of IP Transit and Internet Exchanges

IP Transit and IX provide several and far-reaching benefits for businesses and wholesale companies.

With IP Transit, businesses like yours, can build an international digital footprint and establish a robust digital connection with customers, partners, and investors across the world. IP Transit services also enable global reachability, provide consistent digital experience, optimise network efficiency, enhance customer experience, and improve network performance.

They provide businesses with the ability to expand their service portfolio and reach new markets. They offer superior peering services that reduce the number of hops, enabling businesses with faster bandwidth.

Take for instance why minimising hops is crucial for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and telco carriers. Today, ISPs, and telco carriers are constantly thriving to meet the changing needs of businesses through extensive coverage, guaranteed performance and operational efficiency. IP Transit and IX  interconnect eyeball networks with minimal hops, provide access to an extensive number of direct connections and the global routing table.

IP Transit and IX, enable route optimisation and high-performance networking and empower businesses with the necessary throughput for critical business transactions. The availability, flexibility and scalability of IP Transit services and IX allow businesses to bring new applications to market quickly and cost-effectively.

Gateway to the World: IP Transit

TM Wholesale, offers IP Transit services with Clean Pipe, Direct Peering, single ASN, and Tier 1 capabilities. TM has the largest Internet subscriber base in Malaysia, and is one of the biggest regional ISPs. TM owns close to 30 submarine cables spanning over 300,000 km worldwide. It offers extensive global connectivity with other Tier 1 providers and direct peering with major content providers and OTTs. Recently, TM Wholesale added 2 new PoPs in East Malaysia.

What’s more? TM IP Transit delivers a complete carrier-class security portfolio and time-critical performance through a dedicated security monitoring portal. It also enables visibility and real-time performance reporting of IP Transit services with 24/7 customer support. It offers SLAs with KPIs of high quality, customer satisfaction, packet delivery, and IP port availability.

With TM IP Transit you can extend reachability with peering relationships with other global Tier-1 ISPs to ensure short-hop connectivity to global content. TM IP Transit is one of the biggest Regional Tier 1 ISPs in Asia.

Connecting Malaysia & ASEAN : TMiX

TMiX is the newest regional Internet exchange in Malaysia. It delivers unmatched performance and experience allowing businesses to grow and extend access to the Malaysian market and beyond, while ensuring the highest levels of customer experience and cost efficiency.

It is an open and neutral platform established to help Malaysia-based providers, international carriers, content providers, OTTs, and hyperscalers peer and physically connect to an IX point in Malaysia. TMiX ensures domestic traffic does not have to take indirect international routes, making it more cost-effective for users.

TMiX is designed as single Point of Interconnect (POI), via TM AS4788, to reach extensively into Malaysia. With a total strength of 62 nodes—TMiX ensures high-performing connectivity across Malaysia. It poses a significant cost benefit for smaller ISPs by reducing the dependency on costly international links. This translates into cost efficiency for TMiX customers.

Today, as more businesses like yours, gear up for digital transformation—to enhance customer experience, enable competitive differentiation and innovation, and achieve profitability by adopting new technologies—IP Transit and IX will play a significant role in breaking connectivity barriers and opening up a world of opportunities.