Cape Town, South Africa – 7 October 2021 – Teraco: A Digital Realty Company, Africa’s largest interconnection hub and vendor-neutral data centre provider, has announced the completion of Phase 1 of CT2, its new hyperscale data centre in Brackenfell, Cape Town.
The new facility supports the growing demand by enterprises and cloud services for South Africa’s data centre capacity. CT2 offers highly resilient and secure colocation facilities in line with Teraco’s long-term vision of enabling digital transformation across Africa.
Why Cape Town?
As one of Africa’s most digitally connected cities, Cape Town is a logical destination for Teraco’s continued investment into data centre infrastructure on the continent. Home to thriving digitally connected enterprises including telecommunications, financial services, e-commerce, logistics, and retail, Cape Town benefits from its enviable location at the southern tip of Africa, and the landing point for many major subsea cable systems such as ACE, WACS, SAT-3 and SAFE. The abundance of subsea cable connectivity is set to continue with Google’s Equiano and the 2Africa cable system developments.
CT2 represents a strategic addition to Platform Teraco, offering enterprises a scalable platform for IT infrastructure deployment while sustaining performance, reliability, stringent security, and the most comprehensive network choice.
The first phase of CT2 comprises 25 000 square metres of building structure, 8 000 square metres of data halls, and 18MW of critical power load. Teraco has secured adjacent land and power for future expansion, bringing the total critical power load to 36MW at end state.
As part of Teraco’s broader Cape Town campus, the CT1 and CT2 data centres provide 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 50 managed service providers, and direct peering at NAPAfrica, Africa’s largest internet exchange point. Clients deployed in either of these facilities can connect directly to AWS Direct Connect and Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute or via Teraco’s Africa Cloud Exchange.
This multi-billion-rand data centre facility dramatically extends Platform Teraco’s capacity in the Western Cape, according to Jan Hnizdo, CEO at Teraco.
“Forming a vital part of South Africa’s IT landscape, Platform Teraco is an essential part of the modern enterprise’s digital transformation strategy with its diverse industry ecosystems and open interconnection marketplace,” he says.
CT2 is connected to all the other Teraco data centres through a diverse ecosystem of network operators in the facility, making it ideal for the distributed interconnection defined architecture of the modern enterprise.
The Teraco difference
Hnizdo says most enterprise organisations are accelerating their digital transformation strategies and placing a greater focus on data centre and cloud adoption strategies.
“Enterprises are looking for the ability to scale as network strategies evolve. In a world where fast and secure interconnection with strategic business partners is a priority, this is a source of competitive advantage,” he says.
Platform Teraco provides the lowest latency interconnection points. With a direct private connection to all leading cloud services, enterprises can deploy in the most efficient, secure, and resilient manner possible. Enterprises use Teraco to scale their IT infrastructure, adopt hybrid and multi-cloud architectures, and interconnect with strategic business partners within the Teraco ecosystem.
Since its inception in 2008, Teraco has focused on building highly resilient vendor-neutral data centres.
“Over the last few years, we have taken our ever-expanding ecosystems and network-dense interconnection hubs and moved beyond simple colocation services. Teraco is the enterprise infrastructure platform for growth and innovation,” he says.
Teraco CT2 – Brackenfell, Cape Town
