Ethio Telecom launched yesterday the biggest Tier III ready modular data center in Ethiopia powered by Huawei, a leading global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices.

According to EPA, the newly deployed data center is located in Gola Sefer, a locality in Addis Ababa, equipped with five POD (Points of Deployment), 16 cabinets per POD, which can support 10 servers per cabinet.

The total capacity of the facility can reach 800 servers. According to Ethio Telecom’s plan, the newly built data center will firstly serve existing service provision such as mobile money and business support systems, and the extra capacity could be used for new business such as colocation and cloud service in the future.

Source: FBC