Liquid Telecom has launched a carrier-neutral data centre in Nairobi.
Branded as East Africa Data Centre, the facility will offer secure and reliable space for dedicated hosting, interconnect services,colocation, disaster recovery, network-based services, applications and cloud services to carriers, network providers and enterprises from across the continent.
The centre has been designed to meet the needs of different business segments from across the continent.Customers already present in the building includingbanks, mobile network operators, ISPs and cloud solutions providers.
The data centre iscarrier-neutral with connectivity to the backbone and metro fibre offered by a number of carriers including nearly all local Kenyan carriers and international carriers such as Tata, Level3 and Seacom. Organisations using the data centre can choose any of the providers that are present in the premises.
In addition, it is the only one of its kind in East and Central Africa and is designed to meet International Data Centre Standards TIA-942 with 99.982% guaranteed availability.
Dan Kwach, General Manager at East Africa Data Centre, said “Quality data centres are an important element in the creation of an independent African telecoms infrastructure. Our significant investment in this data centre has been driven by demand from across Africa. By keeping African data in Africa we continue to help build Africa’s digital future”.