Sunday, November 3, 2013

MainOne unveils largest Tier 3 Data Centre in West Africa

 
MainOne, the first privately-owned subsea cable in West Africa has unveiled the construction of a new Tier III + Data centre at 1,500 square meters with a 600 rack capacity.
Speaking on the project at the cable landing station in Lagos to DigitalSENSE Business News, the Chief Executive Officer of MainOne, Ms. Funke Opeke said that the new Data Centre will leverage on MainOne’s network which is peered with leading operators and internet exchanges worldwide to provide global reach to its customers across all locations.
Opeke said the project when completed will have redundancy such that there is no single point of failure within the facility and added that the MainOne Data Center at Lekki will pave way for the establishment of additional Data Centers and Point of Presence (POPs) across Nigeria and other West African nations
The Chief Sales and Marketing Officer, MainOne, Mr Folu Aderibigbe said that the project is further proof of MainOne’s commitment to enhance infrastructure within its primary markets, aid in the reduction of information technology costs and risk as well as transform Africa into a digital economy.
 Aderibigbe explained that one of the unique features of  MainOne is its direct access to MainOne Metro and International fibre and all the major interconnection with telecom networks in Nigeria and Ghana,
DigitalSENSE Business News recalls that MainOne recently received a $100 million( about N15billion) refinancing facility from Standard Chartered Bank and a consortium of other Nigerian banks to help fund its infrastructure expansion including fibre around the country, metro Lagos, and nationwide POPs.

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Pix: Chief Executive Officer of MainOne, Ms. Funke Opeke

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