Taiwan's international Internet bandwidth rose to over 223Gbps at end of 3Q08

Press release, October 28; Adam Hwang, DIGITIMES [Tuesday 28 October 2008]

Taiwan's direct Internet connections with 19 countries (including Hong Kong and Macao) reached a total bandwidth of 223.701Gbps as of the end of third-quarter 2008, increasing by 0.55% on quarter and by 23.59% on year, according to the government-sponsored Taiwan Network Information Center (TWNIC).

HiNet had an international bandwidth of 98.331Gbps at the end of last quarter, the largest among ISPs or non-commercial equivalents in Taiwan, followed by TWGate with 22.296Gbps, SeedNet with 18.621Gbps, TFN with 15.778Gbps, EBIX with 12.465Gbps, NTT with 10.420Gbps, So-net with 7.866Gbps, ASNet with 6.244Gbps, TWAREN with 5.699Gbps and REACH with 4.977Gbps.

Taiwan's top-five partners in terms of Internet connection bandwidth, 3Q08
Country/area	Bandwidth (Gbps)	Q/Q	Y/Y
US	95.334	(4.22%)	26.75%
Japan	46.663	(1.94%)	7.97%
Hong Kong	46.249	7.04%	37.43%
China	24.786	13.71%	41.16%
South Korea	2.854	5.76%	96.22%

Source: TWNIC, compiled by Digitimes, October 2008