KUALA LUMPUR, 19 August, 2010: GTower, a certified green building, received MSC Malaysia Cybercentre Status from Science, Technology and Innovation Minister, Datuk Seri D. Maximus Johnity Ongkili here today.

A total of 150,000 sq ft in, or about five floors in GTower is designated to house MSC Malaysia companies housed in MSC Cubes and FlexOffices incubation facilities. There currently were 12 MSC Malaysian companies based there, with room for more.

There currently are 19 MSC Malaysia cybercities and cybercentres located across Malaysia, including Cyberjaya, Putrajaya, in Malacca, Pahang, Johor, Penang and Perak, with applications from Sarawak, Perlis, Kelantan and Terengganu.

“Malaysia's ICT sector contributed 9.8% to the country's gross domestic product in 2009 and is expected to grow to 10.2% by 2015,” the Minister said, while officiating the event.

Located on Jalan Tun Razak, near to the Jalan Ampang intersection, GTower received Green Mark Gold environmentally friendly building certification from the Building & Construction Authority of Singapore earlier on 28 January.

It employs green building technologies to achieve better sustainability, low-energy consumption and a healthy environment, through the use of ICT, including intelligent building facilities which monitoring energy use, and thus it boasts 25% energy reduction, compared to buildings of similar size and location.

“By building intelligently, using the latest ICT tools, GTower drastically cuts carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere, providing a more holistic and better working environment for temporary, short-term and long-term tenants,” said GTower executive director, Dr. Colin Ng.

GTower's multimedia convergent capability also means that it's able to provide a full suite of services over an IP backbone to tenants and users – including voice over IP (VoIP) telephony, high-speed broadband, Internet Protocol TV (IPTV), radio frequency identification (RFID) –based smartcard access, as well as bandwidth-on-demand which allows for the increase or decrease of data bandwidth allocated to tenants as and when required. These facilities were provided by several contractors.

Avaya provided the IP telephony integration with voice applications through its implementation partner, Jebsen & Jessen.

Macro Lynx provided the IPTV, as well as IP telephony, wired and wireless broadband connections and 24 x 7 onside support. It also offers dedicated data centre services, including server co-location and connections of gigabits per second capacity, with total throughput in the order of terabits per second.

Selectv provided IPTV, including the interactive TV system for the GCity Club Hotel housed in GTower.

Metronic Global provider the building automation and control system for GTower's air conditioning, lighting, pumps, its RFID access control system, closed circuit TV and public address (PA) system.

Maxis provided the fibre connection to GTower, with up to 1Gbps to each office, fixed broadband service and voice lines to tenants, as well as indoor cellular coverage.