INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Data Centres
China Telecom Global to have hub at Teraco Data Environments
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Jan Hnizdo , Director at Teraco
China Telecom ( Africa and Middle East ) Limited ( CTMEA ), the Middle East and Africa subsidiary of China Telecom Global ( CTG ) has announced that it is establishing an inter-connection network and telecommunications hub to support growing traffic demands at Teraco Data Environments , Africa ’ s first vendor neutral data centre .
CTMEA has established its network nodes in Teraco ’ s data centres in Cape Town , Durban and Johannesburg since 2012 , which provide the inter-connecting hub linking the global Internet resources into the African continent . Teraco ’ s advanced data centre services will be bundled with CTG ’ s information communication technology ( ICT ) solutions which will cater to the increasing demands from the world going into Africa , ody especially expansion from Asia Pacific IT Companies into Africa .
The new co-operation allows multi-national companies to subscribe Teraco ’ s co-location services bundled with CTG ’ s ICT and connectivity solutions .
“ Our customers in China and Asia- Pacific region will now find it even more convenient to subscribe to a reliable , trusted and high-quality co-location and connectivity services from Teraco and China Telecom Global ,” said Changhai Liu , Managing Director of CTMEA .
“ Our co-operation immediately builds higher confidence among our customers , so they can focus on their business operations and leave their hosting , colocation and interconnection requirements to us . We have long been focusing on the African market and this closer co-operation with Teraco further enhances our competitiveness in the Middle East and Africa with a strong and like-minded partner in Southern Africa we can rely on .”
Teraco has also been focused on growing its ecosystems of telco , content , financial services , enterprise and Internet service providers over the past decade . Its offering is underpinned by providing clients with direct access to Africa ’ s largest Internet exchange , NAPAfrica , which includes all the benefits of interconnection via the Teraco platform .
Jan Hnizdo , Director at Teraco said , “ Teraco has been investing to expand our data centre facilities with additional capacity and floor space to meet increasing demands from enterprises and from the surge in cloud computing uptake .
“ Our relationship with China Telecom Global provides African opportunities for Chinese content and applications , which means a growing network and higher communications traffic in the African region to the East . A Digital Transformation is happening across the sub-Saharan Africa region , with this development clients are able to leverage the most advanced , costeffective data centre and ICT solutions from both companies .” •
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