MTN, Africa’s leading cellular telecommunications company, is set to deepen data penetration in Nigeria with the commissioning of a Tier III Data Centre in Lagos today.
In the landmark event, the telco, which has completed a Tier III Data Centre located at their Aromire Office Complex in Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria, would be increasing its data centre footprint in Africa.
The Tier III data centre, a project MTN commenced late last year, is a combination of the state of the art containerised and modular in-building solutions.
The data centre offers very high flexibility, scalability and compatibility, and would allow MTN serve the computing needs of the Nigeria market, including the MSMEs to big corporates, which offer services that depend on the availability of internet connection.
Added to the aforementioned, the modular data centre has high density and low PUE (Power Use Effectiveness), which depicts how efficiently the data centre uses energy.
Thus, the data centre would reduce the cost of service delivery for MTN and improve the quality of service for the end users.
The tier system was established in 1993 to standardise the methodology for measuring the performance of data centres.
The system allows for the certification of data centres in categories ranging from tier 1 to tier 4, with tier 4 being the most sophisticated.
The classification system is widely accepted as the standardised methodology used in determining the functionality, capacity, availability and performance of Data Centres.
Hence, a Tier III data centre with its redundant and always active power supply (with minimal planned and unplanned downtime), guarantees 99.982 percent availability.
The Data Centre was designed and constructed by Huawei, in collaborating with Interkel Limited as turnkey construction partners.
