intelligent OPERATIONS

completes Durban data centre expansion to double existing facility capacity

As South Africa ’ s third largest city with a population of over 3 million people , home to thriving digitally connected enterprises and a key South African manufacturing hub , Durban is experiencing demand for additional data centre capacity and thus a logical destination for Teraco ’ s continued investment into data centre infrastructure on the African continent .

Situated on Durban ’ s north coast , Teraco DB1 is a strategic interconnection hub on the African subsea cable map with direct access to the Seacom , EASSy , MÉTISS , and soon-to-bedeployed 2Africa cable systems that connect the east coast of Africa .

Teraco ’ s DB1 facility is connected to the Teraco campus in Isando , Johannesburg , through a wide choice of carriers via diverse regional fibre routes enabling clients to increase the number of partners they connect with and expand their reach into new markets . Teraco ’ s DB1 facility offers clients secure colocation and interconnection services and the ability to leverage Teraco ’ s digital hubs in Johannesburg directly .

The newly expanded facility supports the growing demand by enterprises and cloud service providers for data centre capacity . DB1 offers highly resilient and secure colocation facilities in line with Teraco ’ s long-term vision of enabling Digital Transformation across Africa . The expansion has doubled DB1 ’ s capacity to 2.2MW of critical power load . The facility now comprises 5,800 square metres of building structure accommodating over 700 racks .

The DB1 facility provides enterprises with direct access to Platform Teraco , a rich ecosystem of over 250 network providers , global cloud on-ramps , subsea cable systems , access to over 100 Managed Service Providers and direct peering at NAPAfrica , Africa ’ s largest Internet Exchange ( IX ) point .

DB1 is the latest expansion for Teraco ’ s growing data centre platform . It takes critical power load capacity at Teraco facilities to 186MW , which includes the Isando Campus JB1 / JB3 / JB5 ( 70MW ), Bredell Campus JB2 / JB4 ( 64MW ), Cape Town Campus CT1 / CT2 ( 50MW ) and Durban ( 2MW ).

Organisations working to accelerate their Digital Transformation use Teraco to scale their IT infrastructure dynamically , adopt hybrid multi-cloud architectures and interconnect with strategic business partners within the Platform Teraco ecosystem of global and local clients .

Key facts DB1

• DB1 comprises 5,800 square metres of building structure serviced by 4 megavolt-amperes ( MVA ) of utility power supply and provides 2.2MW of critical power load .

• Strategically located in Durban on the east coast of South Africa with 3,000 interconnects .

• DB1 expansion significantly adds to South and sub-Saharan Africa ’ s data centre infrastructure .

• DB1 will augment the existing portfolio of ISO9001 , ISO27001 , ISO50001 , ISO14001 , PCI-DSS and ISAE3402- certified data centre facilities . � www . intelligentdatacentres . com

53