MyIX to upgrade Internet infrastructure to handle growing traffic

Due to promising growth in local Internet traffic, the Malaysia Internet Exchange (MyIX), a neutral, non-profit society that oversees Internet traffic exchange within the country, plans to upgrade its backbone capacity from 10Gbps(gigabits per second) to 40Gbps by October this year. This is expected to provide better Internet surfing speeds for Malaysian users. 

“We are now hitting close to 80% of utilisation and the traffic is still growing,” says Chiew Kok Hin, chief executive officer of MyIX. “Today, at our peak, we’re running close to 25Gbps of traffic.”