We’re now peered at SGIX (Singapore Internet Exchange) over both IPv4 and IPv6. SGIX is Singapore’s largest not-for-profit, open and neutral internet exchange, and being connected to it is a significant upgrade to how traffic flows between your VPS and the rest of the region.
What is SGIX
An internet exchange (IX) is a physical facility where networks connect to exchange traffic directly, rather than routing through third-party transit providers. Without peering at an IX, traffic between two networks in the same city might travel across the ocean and back through intermediary networks. With direct peering, that same traffic takes a short hop across the exchange fabric. Lower latency, fewer hops, more reliability.
SGIX was founded in 2009 and has grown into one of the largest internet exchanges in Asia Pacific. As of late 2025, SGIX has 248 member networks, 294 connections, and a total peering capacity of 19.1 Tbps. Traffic averages around 2.2 Tbps and peaks above 3 Tbps. The exchange is distributed across multiple data centers in Singapore, including Equinix SG1/SG2/SG3/SG5 (where our infrastructure is hosted), Global Switch, Digital Realty, Telin-3, and others.
Who peers at SGIX
This is where it gets interesting. SGIX’s member list reads like a who’s who of the internet. Here are some of the networks your Singapore VPS can now reach via direct peering:
Content delivery and cloud (the biggest pipes):
- Akamai Technologies: 1.2 Tbps
- TikTok / ByteDance: 1.2 Tbps
- Tencent CDN (Aceville): 1.4 Tbps
- Telegram Messenger: 800 Gbps
- Alibaba: 600 Gbps
- Valve Corporation (Steam): 600 Gbps
- EdgeNext: 600 Gbps
- Amazon Web Services: 400 Gbps
- Cloudflare: 400 Gbps
- Fastly: 400 Gbps
- Zoom Video Communications: 400 Gbps
- Zscaler: 400 Gbps
Major tech companies:
- Google: 200 Gbps
- Microsoft: 200 Gbps
- Meta (Facebook): 200 Gbps
- Apple: 200 Gbps
- Netflix: 200 Gbps
- Dropbox: 100 Gbps
- eBay: 10 Gbps
- Yahoo: 40 Gbps
- Sony Interactive Entertainment: 100 Gbps
- Riot Games: 100 Gbps
- Samsung SDS: 1 Gbps
Asia-Pacific telecom carriers:
- Telkom Indonesia (TELIN): 400 Gbps
- Advanced Wireless Network / IIG Thailand: 300 Gbps
- Moratelindo Indonesia: 300 Gbps
- PLDT Philippines: 200 Gbps
- Telekom Malaysia: 200 Gbps
- Reliance Jio India: 700 Gbps
- VNPT Vietnam: 200 Gbps
- True Internet Thailand: 100 Gbps
- Biznet Indonesia: 100 Gbps
- Globe Telecom Philippines: 100 Gbps
- FPT Telecom Vietnam: 100 Gbps
- Indosat Indonesia: 100 Gbps
- SK Broadband Korea: 100 Gbps
- Lintasarta Indonesia: 200 Gbps
- Converge ICT Philippines: 10 Gbps
- M1 Singapore: 100 Gbps
- MekongNet Cambodia: 10 Gbps
- Smart Axiata Cambodia: 20 Gbps
Hosting and infrastructure providers:
- Hurricane Electric: 300 Gbps
- Huawei Cloud: 200 Gbps
- Tencent Global: 200 Gbps
- DigitalOcean: 200 Gbps
- OVHcloud: 100 Gbps
- Hetzner Online: 100 Gbps
- Contabo Asia: 100 Gbps
- Vultr (The Constant Company): 100 Gbps
- Linode / Akamai: 100 Gbps
- Zenlayer: 200 Gbps
- Gcore: 200 Gbps
And us: ServerPoint (AS26277) with 10 Gbps and an Open peering policy.
What direct peering means for your VPS
When your Singapore VPS sends traffic to a user on one of these networks, that traffic doesn’t need to travel through transit providers. It crosses the SGIX exchange fabric directly. In practice:
Local Singapore traffic: If your visitors are on M1, SingNet, ViewQwest, or other Singapore ISPs that peer at SGIX, traffic between their network and your virtual server stays local. Sub-millisecond latency.
Regional carrier traffic: SGIX has strong participation from carriers across Southeast Asia. Indonesian ISPs like Biznet, Moratelindo, Indosat, and Lintasarta are there. Philippine carriers like PLDT, Globe Telecom, and Converge are there. Vietnamese carriers like FPT and VNPT are there. Thai carriers like True Internet and Advanced Wireless are there. Malaysian carriers like Telekom Malaysia and TIME dotCom are there. When your VPS serves users on these networks, traffic takes a direct path through SGIX instead of routing through transit providers in the US or Europe.
Content platform traffic: If your application integrates with AWS, Google Cloud, Cloudflare, or Akamai services, the API calls and data transfers between your VPS and those platforms happen over direct peering. That’s faster and more reliable than going through transit.
IPv6 peering included
We’re peered at SGIX on both IPv4 and IPv6. If you run IPv6 on your Linux VPS or Windows VPS, you get the same direct peering benefits on both protocols. IPv6 adoption is growing across Asia Pacific, and 94% of SGIX members support IPv6 peering.
Our full Singapore network stack
SGIX peering is one layer of our Singapore connectivity. The full stack:
- Telstra: Major Asia-Pacific carrier, strong to Australia and Southeast Asia
- HE.net (Hurricane Electric): Global IPv6 leader and transit provider (also peered at SGIX with 300 Gbps)
- PCCW Global: Strong backbone across Greater China, Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia (also peered at SGIX with 100 Gbps)
- SGIX peering: Direct connectivity to 248 member networks
- Path.net DDoS protection: All traffic scrubbed for DDoS attacks at no extra cost
Transit providers handle traffic to networks we don’t peer with directly. SGIX handles traffic to the 248 networks we do peer with. Together, this gives your VPS hosting the best available path to nearly any destination in Asia Pacific.
Why this matters in practice
If you host a website on a Singapore VPS that serves users across Southeast Asia, SGIX peering can shave 10-50 ms off load times compared to routing through transit. For an e-commerce site, that translates to better conversion rates. For a gaming backend, that’s fewer lag complaints. For an API, that’s faster responses for your users’ applications.
Pricing and deployment
Singapore VPS hosting starts at $5/month with SGIX peering included at no extra charge. Both Linux VPS and Windows VPS are available. We also offer dedicated servers at our Singapore location.
Deploy a VPS in Singapore from the Client Portal, or contact us if you have questions about routing, peering, or which plan fits your Asia-Pacific workload.