Africa’s digital transformation is being accelerated by the transformative, neutral, pan-African Open Access Data Center (OADC) operator, whose main data center in Lekki, Lagos, is now operational. The rapid deployment of the company’s data center continues, with three new central facilities in South Africa and the expansion of OADC’s existing facility in Durban. Coupled with OADC’s unique core-to-edge deployment in South Africa, this enables telcos, ISPs, cloud operators, the wholesale community and major enterprises to benefit from a greater variety, truly customer-centric service experience. client and an extended African cloud ecosystem.
West Africa’s largest data center campus is operational
The first phase of OADC’s flagship facility, OADC Lagos, is now operational, offering customized colocation services to initial core tenants. Built on the largest single data center (DC) campus (four hectares) in West Africa, OADC Lagos is a carrier-neutral Tier III hyperscale data center designed with expansion capacity up to 20 MW of load from the site at more than 7200 mtwo of blank space: enough for 3200 frames. High-capacity international connectivity will be available directly from the facility as soon as the Equiano submarine cable comes online later this year, and the data center is fully interconnected with all key cable landing stations and data centers, allowing a wide range of organizations to expand their operations in Nigeria and the broader West African region.
Dr. Ayotunde Coker, Executive Director of OADC, explains: “OADC Lagos is our flagship data center, offering customized hosting/colocation solutions and high availability interconnection to existing Internet exchange points in Lagos. It is also home to Google’s 144 Terabit per second Equiano cable landing, which provides an open access gateway to hyperscale international connectivity and as such plays a crucial role in meeting Nigeria’s future international connectivity needs..
“OADC Lagos is an integral part of our unique open access, core-to-end DC ecosystem. Key customers in the cloud and telecom community have committed to expansion with OADC Lagos, while we also continue to advance our plans for nationwide deployment of core and edge data centers during 2023.”
Three new central data centers for South Africa
OADC has also implemented a new central DC to serve the cloud ecosystem in Isando, Johannesburg. Configured with an initial 1,600 square meters of IT white space and up to 7MW of site load, OADC JNB1 has significant expandability, enabling growth in line with customer demand to 3,000 square meters and 15MW. Two new OADC data centers in Cape Town will be operational shortly, with one up and running in Rondebosch in December and the second in Brackenfell in January 2023. Both facilities have been configured with an initial over 1,000 square meters of white space of IT, can be expanded to 800+ racks as demand grows and have site loads of up to 5MW and 3MW respectively.
To meet the growing demand for world-class carrier-independent data center services in Durban and throughout the KwaZulu Natal region, OADC Durban Phase 2 will also be operational by mid-December 2022, adding another 110 racks on this facility of strategic importance. where the 2Africa international submarine cable is scheduled to land in January 2023.
Driving the digitization of Africa
Lagos is at the forefront of growing demand for data storage and capacity in Nigeria, which has Africa’s largest population, largest economy and is the continent’s largest telecommunications market.
Because OADC is part of the WIOCC Group and a sister company to the WIOCC transportation company, the resulting converged open digital infrastructure enables OADC customers to establish interconnectivity in Nigeria and other key locations in Africa leveraging WIOCC’s hyperscale pan-African open network infrastructure.
In addition to OADC Lagos, OADC’s unique end-to-end open access data center ecosystem includes expanded OADC Durban, two data center hubs in Cape Town, one in Jo’burg, and over 30+ 50+ data center hubs. OADC EDGE rack-capable data. throughout South Africa. These OADC EDGE DCs are the first phase of OADC’s African Edge DC deployment, offering colocation (starting at ¼ rack), rooftop access, and high-speed network interconnectivity between multi-path and multi-facility facilities. 100Gbps. By mid-2023, there will also be more than 10 OADC EDGE hubs in Nigeria.
Unique core-to-end ecosystem
By consolidating edge computing, edge DCs, and hyperscale connectivity within a single ecosystem and integrating this with core DC deployment, OADC is creating an environment that enables 5G operators, ISPs, and fiber providers to take advantage of the opportunities of Business growth by rapidly and cost-effectively expanding network reach into new markets.
OADC EDGE
In addition to allowing operators to extend network coverage, OADC EDGE also offers latency improvements by enabling content to be served locally, optimizing the end-customer experience, and supporting the successful deployment of new time-sensitive applications. OADC EDGE’s facilities are secure and power guaranteed, providing enterprise customers with an excellent option for off-site data storage, processing and disaster recovery. The ability to pre-process large volumes of critical data at the edge, before sending it to larger regional facilities, also improves efficiency and minimizes network costs by optimizing network backhaul spend.
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