Data centre and interconnection services company Teraco has completed Phase 1 of its CT2 hyperscale data centre, in Brackenfell, Cape Town, to support growing demand by enterprises and cloud providers for data centre capacity.

CT2 offers highly resilient and secure co-location facilities in line with Teraco’s long-term vision of enabling digital transformation across Africa.

“CT2 represents a strategic addition to Platform Teraco, offering enterprises a scalable platform for information technology infrastructure deployment while sustaining performance, reliability, security and comprehensive network choice. The first phase of CT2 comprises 25 000 m² of building structure, 8 000 m² of data hall space and 18 MW of critical power load,” says Teraco CEO Jan Hnizdo.

Teraco has secured adjacent land and power for future expansion and to take the total critical power load to 36 MW at end state.

The multibillion-rand CT2 data centre facility is connected to all the other Teraco data centres through the diverse ecosystem of network operators in the facility, making it suitable for the distributed interconnection defined architecture of the modern enterprise, Hnizdo says.

As part of Teraco’s broader Cape Town campus, both the CT1 and CT2 data centres provide enterprises with direct access to Platform Teraco, which is an ecosystem with more than 250 network providers, global cloud on-ramps, subsea cable systems, access to more than 50 managed service providers and direct peering at Internet exchange point NAPAfrica.

Clients deployed in either of these facilities can connect to AWS Direct Connect and Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute directly or via Teraco’s Africa Cloud Exchange.

The CT2 data centre dramatically extends Platform Teraco’s capacity in the Western Cape, and supports enterprises’ digital transformation strategy with its diverse industry ecosystems and open interconnection marketplace, Hnizdo says.

The majority of enterprise organisations are accelerating their digital transformation strategies and placing a greater focus on cloud adoption strategies. Enterprises are looking for the ability to scale as network strategies evolve, and in a world where fast and secure interconnection with strategic business partners is a priority, this is a source of competitive advantage, he highlights.

“Since 2008, Teraco has focused on building highly resilient vendor-neutral data centres. Over the past few years, we have taken our growing ecosystems and network-dense interconnection hubs and moved beyond simple co-location. Enterprises use Teraco to scale their information technology infrastructure, adopt hybrid and multi-cloud architectures and interconnect with strategic business partners within the Teraco ecosystem,” Hnizdo concludes.