Telkom Kenya Launches Its New Data Centre in Nairobi

In order to help tap into the growing data storage needs of local and regional businesses in Kenya, Telkom Kenya has launched its new data centre in Nairobi.

The Ksh 150 Million data centre is situated at Nairobi’s Upper Hill area and will help the company improve its network quality, colocation and hosting services, internet connectivity and local loop connectivity.

The project is part of Telkom’s network infrastructure expansion programme and is capable of hosting all Telco’s infrastructure both local and international clients.

Mr. Aldo Mareuse, Telkom Chief Executive Officer, said that the latest investment is to leverage on the rising demand for cloud-based services for Kenyan and regional businesses, at a customer‘s requirements.

“It gives our clients three redundant fiber routes guaranteeing back-up and access to international capacity on the Submarine Cables (TEAMS, EASSy & LION2) from Nairobi, enabling us to redeploy superior services competitively beyond market offering,” Mr. Mareuse said.

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The new infrastructure will also provide access to national fiber backbone and metro capacities across the country whilst offering turnkey solution support for public and private cloud deployment and multi-channel access to services.

The number of broadband connections is expected to grow at an average of twenty per cent a year in the next five years, according to the African Data Centre Market Report 2017.

The data centre has 3 diverse fiber routes serving the site to ensure uptime through redundancy to 3 different exchanges, namely: Westlands, GPO Nairobi and South-Hill Exchanges in Nairobi.

Latter-day businesses are investing heavily in data server space in data centers for cloud services, backup their data information, intersperse to other companies and provide secure, convenient services to their customers.

Global spending for big data and business analytics hardware, software and services is projected to rise from the current $150.8 billion to $210 billion by 2020, according to telecommunications analyst firm IDC.

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