APA-Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) Raxio, a US based data center company on Wednesday inaugurated its Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, data center, making the east African nation a new technological epicenter.
The data center is located in the Ethio ICT Park, built on a 10,000 square plot of land . and offers collocation space for up to 800 racks, delivering up to 3 MW IT power, providing a robust, fully-redundant environment for housing mission- critical IT infrastructure with 24/7 availability.The collocation facility was built with an outlay of $30 million and took one and half years to complete.
“Raxio newest Tier III certified data center, is meant to satisfy the growing needs of a vibrant business environment and public sector for dependable IT solutions,” General manager of Raxio Data center in Ethiopia Bewket Taffere has said.
He said the launch of the new data center represents a major milestone and helps the nation attract regional and international service providers.
The state-of-the-art environmentally friendly facility houses infrastructure to provide services for mobile network operators, financial service institutions, internet service providers and cloud and content network providers.
As a carrier neutral data center, Raxio Ethiopia is set to become one of Ethiopia’s hubs of connectivity creating an ecosystem where local and international carriers will be able to interconnect and exchange traffic.
“Raxio Ethiopia is the first of several facilities Raxio plans to open in Africa in the next few months,” CEO of Raxio Group Robert Mullins said, adding the company will open similar data facilities in Ivory Coast, Mozambique and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
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