Vodacom
Business Nigeria,
provider of total communication solutions has partnered Rack
Centre Africa, a data centre service provider, to create a
neutral data facility for the Nigerian market. The latter will provide Vodacom
Business Nigeria with carrier neutral data centre infrastructure enabling the
first premium collocation facilities in Nigeria.
The
Tier3 collocation data centre will have a fully redundant system, and provide
99.995 per cent uptime and 96 hours power outage protection. Rack Centre Africa
is a part of the Jagal Group, which has operations across a number of different
industries.
According to
Vodacom Business Nigeria, a neutral data centre remained integral in growing
the Nigerian Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry. The
partnership, which will create a cost effective platform for network operators
to interconnect in a neutral facility through collocation, will also encourage
competition and diversity in the industry.
Vodacom is
expected to provide its premium managed hosting services from this facility
which will benefit its enterprise customers.
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