Philippine broadband provider Converge ICT Solutions said on Monday that its upcoming Caloocan data centre has secured full certification from the Uptime Institute as a Tier III facility.
Converge said the data centre in Metro Manila – which completed construction in March and has been powered up for operational testing – has been certified Tier III for both design and construction.
Converge also claims the Caloocan data centre the first in the Philippines to achieve Tier III certification for both categories. According to the Uptime Institute's web site, it has awarded Tier III certifications for design documents (but not construction) in the Philippines to two data centre facilities operated by DITO Telecommunity, and three by STT Global Data Centres.
The Caloocan data centre is a 300-rack, 3-MW facility that will host Converge’s assets to support its critical business functions.
“With our Caloocan Data Center having been fully certified as Tier III, now both for design and for construction, we are on track to building a digital ecosystem that ensures the highest levels of reliability and security for our network,” said Converge CEO and Co-Founder Dennis Anthony Uy in a statement. “This further enhances our infrastructure to support our core assets and services, ultimately enabling us to deliver seamless data delivery to both our residential and enterprise customers nationwide and around the world.”
Converge is also constructing a 1,200-rack data centre in Pampanga, which will not only support Converge’s internal operations, but also enterprise clients across different sectors.
Later this year, Converge expects its data centres to be backed by new international connectivity by two new subsea cables slated to be activated this year – the Bifrost Cable System which directly links Singapore to the US west coast with a landing point in Davao, and the Southeast Asia Hong Kong-Hainan Express Cable System (SEA-H2X) which connects Hong Kong and Hainan, China to the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore.
Converge said the two subsea cables, combined with its data centres, will boost its capacity to serve residential, enterprise, and wholesale customers.
