Vendor-neutral data environment provider Teraco has started building a third dedicated co-location data centre in the Cape province, which is set to be completed next April.
The centre, located within the Great Westerford area in Cape Town, expands Teraco's capacity by another 1 000m2 of white space, growing the total footprint in Cape Town to over 1 600m2.
Teraco's first facility, situated in Rondebosch, first opened its doors in February 2009 and Teraco claims it is now the most connected building in the city of Cape Town. Demand for its service has led it to construct another centre in the city.
In the past three years, Teraco has expanded its footprint to centres located in Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg, which combined comprise more than 4 000m2 of operating data centre space. Teraco is also home to NAPAfrica, a neutral layer-two Internet peering exchange point.
CEO Lex van Wyk claims Teraco's data centres are the most connected facilities in Africa and currently house the largest peering points on the continent. They provide co-location clients access to all 55 African countries, he says.
Teraco's data centre facilities allow clients to co-locate their key telecommunications equipment, Internet requirements, storage facilities, cloud, hosting and other IT infrastructure services, in a scalable way. Teraco also enables clients to connect to key content hubs, enabling sharing and distribution of data, online content and media.
"Vendor-neutral means Teraco customers can connect to any network operator, service provider or any other Teraco client within the data centre, without restriction," says Van Wyk.
Clients using Teraco's current offerings have access to more than 30 connectivity providers, such as Dark Fibre Africa, Telkom, Neotel, MTN, Vodacom, Cell C, British Telecoms, Level 3 Communications and Seacom.
In May, the vendor-neutral co-location data centre operator and Internet exchange hub sourced R200 million in funding to continue expanding its operations.
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