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“This is world-leading technology,” confirms Wong.
“As a result of HGC’s work, Hong Kong is now one of the
most connected cities in the world.”
For residential customers, meanwhile, HGC has begun to
make tangible the promise of digital media and interactive
television. Users can now watch streaming video or utilise
video on demand with considerable ease, while Hong
Kong’s gaming community can take advantage of cutting-
edge upload and download speeds to engage in true
interactive gaming with
enthusiasts from across
the globe.
Further demonstrating
high-speed broadband’s
capacity to entertain,
HGC in April joined forces with Microsoft’s Xbox Live for
ultra-fast online gaming (see sidebar, p.25).
Global Links
Much of HGC’s recent work has revolved around
providing its customers with a seamless global offering, and
the company draws on the well of technological innovation
to pace this growth.
For HGC’s business customers, Local Area Networks
(LANs) serve as the nerve centre of their daily operations,
enabling them to manage their knowledge through an
efficient system of integrated computers. HGC has taken
this concept one step further through its provision
of a MetroEthernet service, which essentially allows
companies to replicate their office LANs on a global
scale. Wong is under-
standably enthusiastic
about this development.
“The MetroEthernet
ser vice expands LANs
to cover, for example,
the whole of Hong Kong using Ethernet tech-
nology,” he explains. “This allows high-speed
inter-office technology.”
For companies with factories in Southern China and offices
elsewhere, this kind of technology becomes compelling. Head
office can monitor inventory control at its factories at the
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Hong Kong is now one of the most
connected cities in the world
GLOBAL VILLAGE: HGC concentrates on providing customers with a seamless global offering. The company has 50 bilateral partners around the world and plans to
invest further in promising markets.