By Eyasu Zekarias

US based data center company, Raxio, inaugurates its data center in the nation’s capital marking a new dawn for technological advances in the region.

The data center which is located in the Ethio ICT Park, is built on a 10,000 square plot of land offering collocation space for up to 800 racks, and delivering up to 3 MW IT power, providing a robust, fully-redundant environment for housing mission- critical IT infrastructure with a 24/7 availability.

The project which took a year and a half to complete consumed 30 million USD.

“Raxio newest Tier III certified data center, is meant to satisfy the growing needs of a vibrant business environment and public sector for dependable IT solutions,” stated, Bewket Taffere, General Manager of Raxio Data center in Ethiopia.

According to Bewket, the launch of the new data center represents a major milestone and helps the nation attract regional and international service providers.

The state-of-the-art environmentally friendly facility houses infrastructure to provide services for mobile network operators, financial service institutions, internet service providers and cloud and content network providers.

As a carrier neutral data center, Raxio Ethiopia is set to become one of Ethiopia’s hubs of connectivity creating an ecosystem where local and international carriers will be able to interconnect and exchange traffic.

“Raxio Ethiopia is the first of several facilities Raxio plans to open in Africa in the next few months,” CEO of Raxio Group Robert Mullins said, adding the company will open similar data facilities in Ivory Coast, Mozambique and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Currently, four different companies are building a data center in the ICT Park, namely; Safaricom Ethiopia, Ethio Telecom, Wingu and Raxio.