MainOne to build Data Centre in Ghana

* To construct Tier III facility on 4,047 sqm land area in Appolonia City MainOne has announced the expansion of its data centre brand, MDXi, into Accra, Ghana, as part of its ongoing expansion plans in West Africa. The company’s MDXi subsidiary, the largest commercial data centre services provider in West Africa, is extending its […]

* To construct Tier III facility on 4,047 sqm land area in Appolonia City

MainOne has announced the expansion of its data centre brand, MDXi, into Accra, Ghana, as part of its ongoing expansion plans in West Africa.

The company’s MDXi subsidiary, the largest commercial data centre services provider in West Africa, is extending its imprint into Ghana with the new facility to expand MainOne’s already robust infrastructure and service profile in Ghana.

A statement from the tech firm said the new data centre facility which will be based in Appolonia City, a mixed use development 20 kilometres from the centre of Accra, is expected to be ready for service in the fourth quarter of 2020.

It added that it will cater to the ever-increasing demand for co-location and interconnection services for multinationals and local businesses seeking shared services facilities for their ICT resources in world class facilities.

“The Tier III facility will be constructed on 4,047 sqm land area in Appolonia City, a fast-growing light industrial park, located within the northern suburbs of Greater Accra metropolitan Area.

“The facility will be designed to international standards consistent with the MainOne brand, assuring collocated customers of the highest quality of service to meet their business requirements.

“The 100-rack facility will offer customers the opportunity to host infrastructure in a facility guaranteed to provide high levels of availability and rich connectivity with a global network of customers, partners and suppliers thus ensuring 24×7 online delivery of services for the businesses.

“MDXi’s world-class infrastructure will feature private data centre suites, enterprise-grade 24×7 multi-level security and video surveillance, precision cooling, safety and fire suppression systems with multiple redundancies built into the power, cooling and security infrastructure.

“In line with its parent company’s leadership in the telecoms sector, the facility will offer open access connectivity options to all the leading telecom networks in Ghana and direct access to MainOne and other submarine cable systems.

“The facility will offer access to various Internet Exchanges including the GIX (Ghana), IXPN (Nigeria), LINX (London), DECIX (Frankfurt/Lisbon), and Cote d’Ivoire Internet Exchange (CIVIX), as well as the West Africa Internet Exchange (WAF-IX),” it noted.

The statement quoted Kazeem Oladepo, Regional Executive, MainOne, as saying: “As an organization committed to providing broadband infrastructure solutions across West Africa, we are excited to make this investment to support the digitization journey of our customers with the new data centre facility.

“Over the past few years, we have grown our business in Ghana to serve major enterprises and we are delighted to bring our world-class data centre expertise to deepen the Ghanaian market.

“The Ghanaian economy continues to build industrial capacity to show strong economic growth and we need to deploy our best solutions to service the market.”

It will be recalled that MDXi’s Tier III data centre in Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria, is the largest purpose-built commercial data centre in West Africa, designed with a strong focus on high availability, security, and open access connectivity. It is also certified to ISO9001, ISO27001, PCI-DSS and Uptime’s Tier III Certification of Constructed Facility standards.

Also speaking on the planned expansion, Gbenga Adegbiji, Director, MDXi said: “Based on our strong track record as the preferred commercial data centre in West Africa, it is with great pleasure that we announce the expansion of our MDXi footprint in Ghana. This expansion will see MDXi contributing to the growth of the local economy by providing jobs, enhancing capacity development and economic growth.

“Most importantly, it ensures that we are fully equipped and positioned to serve more businesses in Ghana as the region continues to grow its digital economy.”

Regarding the impact the expansion will have on the city, Bright Owosu-Amofah, CEO Appolonia City, stated that, “The city’s innovative vision to drive industrialization and social infrastructure has been made possible through partnerships like MainOne and its subsidiary company MDXi, whose data centre infrastructure will play a major role towards the economic growth and viability of Appolonia City, and also be the backbone for a connected ICT ecosystem.

“We look forward to witnessing the future of Appolonia City businesses being locally hosted and digitally empowered.”