The East Africa Data Centre is the “Best Business Service Innovation award winner in this year’s Global Telecoms Business Innovation awards. East Africa Data Centre was named alongside Liquid Telecom in the same category.
The Global Telecoms Business Innovation awards is organized by Global Telecoms Business magazine to celebrate innovative projects by vendors and operators when serving their customers.
East Africa Data Centre, opened in September 2013, is the largest and most sophisticated in Africa outside South Africa. Designed to meet international standards TIA-942, it is the only purpose-built data centre outside South Africa and has solved the biggest challenges for data centres across the continent – namely connectivity, security and power supply. Many blue chip customers are already present in the building, including banks, mobile network operators, ISPs and cloud solutions providers.
Dan Kwach, General Manager at East Africa Data Centre, said “Our dedicated data centre team has worked extremely hard to build the most connected place in east and central Africa. It’s an honour to receive this prestigious award and to be recognised by our peers in the global telecoms industry. By keeping African data in Africa we are helping to build Africa’s digital future.”
The East Africa Data Centre is carrier neutral with connectivity to the backbone and metro fibre offered by all the local Kenyan carriers and many international carriers such as Tata, Level3 and Seacom, making it the most connected data centre in east and central Africa.
Ben Roberts, acting Managing Director of Liquid Telecom Kenya, said “The East Africa Data Centre has transformed how data traffic is handled in the region and is a worthy recipient of this global award. As the data centre’s major connectivity services partner, we’re extremely pleased that our provision of high-speed reliable connectivity has also been recognised at these prestigious awards.”