Ethio Telecom has launched what it says is the biggest Tier III-ready modular data centre in Ethiopia located in the Gola Sefer district of the capital, Addis Ababa, and powered by Huawei. It has five Points of Deployment (PODs), sixteen cabinets per POD, and can support ten servers per cabinet. The total capacity of the facility can reach 800 servers.
The data centre will first 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. Huawei delivered Ethio Telecom's data centre within 2.5 months, while the traditional way of deployment would take more than five months, it said.
Modular data centres have a power usage effectiveness (PUE) of 1.4, which is 25 percent less than traditional data centres. After installing the Huawei NetEco power monitoring system, it can further reduce 35 percent of operation and maintenance cost. The routine patrolling and monitoring of the modular facility can be performed by robot, according to a statement.
