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Hansen secures a significant three-year contract extension with Africa’ s MultiChoice Group
MultiChoice’ s ambition to transition to this latest version of Hansen CCB. MultiChoice is a South African company that operates DStv, a major satellite television service in Sub- Saharan Africa. As Africa’ s leading entertainment platform, MultiChoice offers a diverse range of content across multiple brands and countries.
For over 25 years, MultiChoice has relied on Hansen for their single billing solution, which supports subscribers across 50 markets.
Hansen’ s continued investment into the CCB platform has allowed MultiChoice to adeptly and efficiently handle the mission-critical complexities of the various regional requirements and diverse country regulations across Africa.
Hansen Technologies, a leading global provider of software and services to the communications, media, energy and utilities industries, has signed a three-year contract renewal with MultiChoice Group to enable the continued utilisation of Hansen CCB, as well as the extension of the existing managed services solutions.
MultiChoice Group Chief Technology and Information Officer, Sabelo Mwali, said:“ Hansen has proven to be an invaluable partner over many years, consistently providing software and services that have resulted in a highly flexible, reliable and efficient billing platform for the MultiChoice Group.
The agreement, initially for a term of three years, combines various contracts into a single master contract; aligning to
“ We look forward to continuing and expanding our highly successful collaboration with Hansen for many years to come.”
Teraco completes significant JB4 hyperscale data centre expansion
Teraco has announced the completion of its JB4 Bredell
Campus data centre expansion located in Ekurhuleni, east of Johannesburg, South Africa.
The 30MW addition expands JB4 to being the largest standalone data centre built in Africa, servicing 50MW of critical IT power load. This new phase at JB4 comprises six data halls, incorporates numerous new design enhancements and, in another African first, each hall supports 5MW of allocated critical IT power load.
The JB4 expansion, built to stringent global hyperscale specifications, contributes significantly to the South African and sub-Saharan African data centre footprint. This follows the recent completion of Teraco’ s new hyperscale JB5 Isando facility, which adds another 30MW of critical IT power load to Teraco’ s Isando Campus in Ekurhuleni.
Jan Hnizdo, Teraco CEO, said the company is well positioned to continue its exceptional growth, thanks to sustained demand from enterprises and hyperscale clients for hybrid cloud and cloud deployments.
The new data halls are fully liquid-to-liquid cooling enabled, allowing clients to deploy high-density, air-cooled cloud deployments and direct-to-chip cooling for denser AI workloads.
JB4 has been designed with sustainability at its core, incorporating a state-of-the-art closed-loop chilled water system that provides free air cooling, coupled with AI-enabled technology to configure data hall cooling in real time, based on IT load and load dispersion.
This innovative design achieves industry-leading Power Usage Effectiveness( PUE), significantly reducing energy consumption while using zero water during ongoing cooling – an important feature on a continent facing water scarcity and supply reliability.
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