INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Cabling
Angola Cables’ data
centre is now live in Brazil
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ngola Cables has announced the opening of its carrier-
neutral data centre, Angonap Fortaleza in Brazil. The
completed facility is now open for business and offers
scalability, continuous connectivity and host and cloud services for
local and external entities. According to Angola Cables, the new data centre has been specifically
designed to receive more submarine cables landing in Fortaleza and
will provide multiple connection services for any businesses that
require high capacity data services to run their modern, Internet and
technology driven enterprises.
The facility is a primary interconnection point for the region, which
will host Angola Cables’ two newest intercontinental submarine
cables, SACS (South Atlantic Cable System) and Monet. “From an Angola Cables viewpoint, our investment in the Angonap
Fortaleza is important in advancing and expanding our business
horizons,” added Nunes. “Other cable systems and customers will have
the option to host their data or content via cloud services or in the data
centre directly – with the opportunity to promote their businesses to
world markets via our ultra-low latency SACS connection.
“The Angonap Fortaleza facility has far reaching advantages
and benefits for CDN’s, IXP’s, and OTT’s, as well as national and
international telecom operators, and content providers seeking to
extend and expand their global reach and product offerings from
Brazil to the world,” said António Nunes, CEO of Angola Cables.
The company added that the structure of the data centre will
accommodate other submarine international cables systems,
backhaul providers, content providers and CDNs, including research
and academic Internet exchange points in Latin America.
This interconnection point will also permit African entities to develop
businesses in different regions of Brazil, Latin America and the USA.
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“This has many advantages not only in meeting the rising demand
for media rich content in the global digital economy, but will
improve links for trade, commerce, inter-government co-operation
and academic learning on either side of the Atlantic and beyond.”
Construction of the facility began in 2007 and now phase one
occupies 2,100 square metres, with a total area of 9,000 square
metres for future expansion. It has an energy redundancy capacity of
12.5 MVA and currently has 1,000 scalable racks offering customers
a 99.98% service availability standard. n
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