>>Below are the excerpts of an interview between Equinix’s president of Asia-Pacific, Samuel Lee, and The Jakarta Post’s Mustaqim Adamrah, after the launch of Equinix’s second data center in Singapore recently.
Question: How do you see the market in the Asia-Pacific region and in the Southeast Asia region? How do you explain this in number?
Answer: Globally, I think in the US, if we’re talking about market size, it’s about maybe US$7 to $8 billion, and Asia Pacific maybe around $2 billion, something like that.
But it’s debatable because today all people can have a very different comprehension of how big the market size is.
But in general, the Asia-Pacific market size is around maybe a third to a half of the US size. But the growth here in Asia will be faster than the US because of the economic development.
For Southeast Asia, Singapore is an IT hub. So a lot of companies have a call center in the Philippines, their office in Indonesia. What they want to do is just pull the international telco connection and break that connection to Singapore and hook up in their IT systems in Singapore.
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How will you maintain your business?
We will continue to endorse network service providers into our data center because as I mentioned, telco density is the main differentiator for Equinix, no matter where we are.
We’ll view our inventory ahead of the demand. So when we have costumers come to us and ask us for space, we have inventory to serve them. In some countries, we do have experience in going back.
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