In 2021 HGC Have Achieved from Swimming Against the Currents

The pandemic has spurred business to adopt new technologies in a faster pace and embrace digital transformation in a more comprehensive aspect. HGC expertise continues with this innovation mindset, to provide fully fledged digital infrastructure, create new partnership in the digital ecosystem, and deliver an impactful and ultimate experience to the vast internet community. The network, ICT and digital solution teams have maintained their high level of expertise and kept on rolling out products and partnerships that have driven the positive trends of ICT and also have been noticed as awards worthy.

Highlighting our achievements in product innovation and partnership

(i) HGC is dedicated to driving transformation at the edge with an experience-driven ultra-low latency network architecture. This year, we have launched our flagship and unique Eyeball-as-a-Service (EaaS). HGC EaaS edge offering enables real-time, high-performance, high-density computing and data analytics resulting in a better user and OTT edge computing experience. The EaaS coverage is scaling fast and extends from Hong Kong to Singapore and the Philippines to facilitate digital globalization and faster market entry by international players and aggressively expanding to reach 400 million eyeballs in the Southeast Asia.


(iii) With the commitment to resilience improvement and latency reduction, HGC partners with hyperscale cloud providers such as Google Cloud, creating a unique opportunity for organizations to deliver vital cloud-based applications quickly. Applications cover global big data streaming processing, machine learning, and other interactive OTT applications over latency-sensitive and geo-distributed cloud-based microservice architecture such as 5G cloud gaming, telehealth, virtual commerce, and AI & IoT technology.


(ii) Last but not least, HGC continues to strengthen peering network experience not only in Asia, but also extending to the US by partnering with trusted Internet Exchange providers. For example, HGC and AMS-IX expand collaborations for both AMS-IX Bay Area and AMS-IX Chicago in the US. Both exchanges will be integrated in HGC’s global digital infrastructure, which enables peering members in both Chicago and Bay Area to reach more than 130 locations all over the world via HGC’s telecom hubs in Los Angeles and New York. In the time ahead, AMS-IX Hong Kong will continue to deliver comprehensive Internet Exchange peering services, as well as to boost regional Internet traffic and develop Hong Kong into a major Internet Exchange hub in APAC, serving potential partners in Australia, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Vietnam, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, etc.

Achievements in key awards and recognition

• HGC is listed as the 60 edge computing companies to watch in 2021 by STL Partners with highlight on Eyeball-as-a-Service^TM, OTT edge network solution
• HGC is awarded Best OTT Project of the Year by Carrier Community
• HGC is awarded Channel Vision Visionary Spotlight Awards for Cybersecurity & Content Delivery and Enablement
• HGC is awarded Titan Awards Platinum for Production Innovation
  (covering Eyeball-as-a-Service^TM and Cybersecurity)
• HGC is awarded International Stevie Silver Awards for HGC Digital Services and Cybersecurity Solution, and Asia Stevie Silver Award for Eyeball-as-a-Service^TM
• HGC is listed as the connectivity infrastructure provider in the metaverse ecosystem by newszoo in the metaverse trend report 2021
• HGC is one of the four carriers being listed as “The leading vendors” in Rocco International Voice Carrier Vendor Performance Report 2021 reflected rating by MNOs
• HGC is featured in Rocco SMS Firewall Market Intelligence Report 2021
• HGC is the finalist for Leading Light Award - Outstanding Use Case: Edge Computing

All in all, 2021 has been a challenging year however HGC has responded with agility, focus and positivity that has enabled the company to see a wide-ranging of solution, partnerships, and awards growth.

The overall market trend and development have been propelled by innovations. The rise of smart AI workspace and the emergence of IoT contributed to an average of 5% growth in the ICT area which keeps up with the growth of GDP. With most of the growth concentrated in Asia Pacific, i.e. the general spending growth trend of 7.1% is achieved and reaching USD$1.1 trillion by 2025 according to the latest release of Worldwide ICT Spending Guide Industry and Company Size.

HGC, as a fully-fledged ICT service provider and network operator with extensive global coverage, has entered this digital economy opportunity strongly supporting the global new market penetration of our partners and customers. This is a showcase of digital resiliency where ICT and network companies capitalize on digital disruptions by leveraging digital capabilities to restore business operations and take advantage of changed conditions.

In the forthcoming year, we wish all our friends and the community a sincerely healthy, wise and prosperous year filled with many exciting opportunities for further expansion of our horizons.