JARING INTERNET LEASED LINES FOR USM CAMPUSES

Kuala Lumpur, April 3 -- JARING, Malaysia's Internet pioneer has recently announced an agreement with Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) to provide dedicated Internet leased-line access to all of its campuses in Penang and Kelantan.

Under the agreement, JARING will provide 155 Mbps Dedicated Internet Leased-line or also known as STM1 to USM's main campus in Minden, Penang, and 34 Mbps Leased-line (E3) to both USM's Engineering Campus in Nibong Tebal and Health Campus in Kubang Kerian, Kelantan.

With the bandwidth upgraded to fibre optic lines, USM will enjoy high-performance guaranteed bandwidth carrying voice, data and Internet traffic and supported by comprehensive Service-Level Agreement (SLA) offered by JARING.

"We are pleased to be selected to carry out this bandwidth upgrade project for USM as JARING is very enthusiastic in helping local universities get the best Internet facilities. In turn, this will help produce more quality graduates and help the faculties with their research," said Dr Mohamed bin Awang Lah, Chief Executive Officer of JARING Communications Sdn Bhd.

"When it comes to Internet services, JARING carries wide experience as we are the first ISP in Malaysia and we recognise USM as the first institute of higher learning to have Internet access capacity of 200 Mbps with online capacity of 1.0 Gbps, added Dr Mohamed.

With the signing of the agreement, USM has become a Platinum Customer of JARING, which entitles it to round the clock Corporate Helpdesk and line monitoring with fault reporting within 30 minutes via phone, SMS or e-mail and an appointed Service Manager.

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Jaring provides a 200mbps leased line to USM which is scalable to 1Gbps.