FILE PHOTO: A man poses inside a server room at an IT company in this June 19, 2017, illustration photo. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha/Illustration/File Photo
Malaysia's Internet traffic hit an all-time high this year, on the back of intense online interest over the Malaysian General Elections and Football World Cup, says Malaysia Internet Exchange (MyIX).
“MyIX recorded 288Gbps of data travelling per second through its network nodes, the highest bandwidth recorded so far,” says its chairman Chiew Kok Hin.
This was a 16% increase compared to the previous year’s highest peak point of 248Gbps over the same period of January to July.
MyIX network’s data traffic peak points are based on the highest data traffic recorded on a particular day, on a monthly basis.
Chiew says two major events that contributed to the increase in Internet consumption by Malaysians in the months of May and June were GE14 and World Cup, respectively.
“Malaysians were actively following the news and updates post the historical general election, followed by World Cup fans who watched the tournaments with live coverage from mid June till mid July 2018,” he says.
He notes that the World Cup held in Moscow, Russia, also marked the most extensive coverage in history: being covered live and shown in 190 different territories across the world.
“The country’s Internet connectivity in Malaysia has come a long way. The highest peak point was 23.3Gbps in 2012,” says Chiew.
MyIX’s monthly Internet traffic peak point has increased at a CAGR (Compounded Annual Growth Rate) of about 52% since 2012.
He adds that this CAGR is a good indication of how massively the country’s Internet landscape is speedily developing.
He says the fast growth of Internet data traffic comes from a combination of more affordable smartphones and tablets, increasing broadband speeds, cloud computing, video streaming, and social media.
A non-profit initiative by the Malaysian Communication and Multimedia Commission (MCMC), MyIX is the first neutral Internet Exchange where local Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and content providers connect to exchange Internet traffic.
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