Premier data centre operator in West Africa, MDXI (a MainOne Company) won the most Connected Tier III Data Centre award at the Beacon of ICT Awards (BoICT), organized by the Nigerian Communications Week over the weekend.
Dubbed West Africa’s Telehouse, due to its status as most connected data centre, with proven competence to interconnect OTTs and major network, content and financial providers as well as interconnections at multiple peering exchanges in Nigeria, Ghana, Amsterdam, and London, MDXI is West Africa’s largest full-scale data centre provider offering colocation, wholesale deployments, interconnection and cloud services.
MDXI is currently expanding its data centre business into new territories across West Africa with a target to build new facilities in 3 new locations including Sagamu, Nigeria; Accra, Ghana; Abidjan, Cote D’Ivoire in addition to an ongoing expansion of its Lekki Data Centre in Lagos, Nigeria.
Over the next ten years, the company plans to build new Tier III data centres in each location and invest in infrastructure projects as part of a push to ramp up technology penetration in the region.
MDXI built the region’s largest Tier III facility in 2015 for $35m and recently commenced the second phase of the project, investing additional $8m to construct 300 additional racks in its Lekki facility.
Focused on developing a data centre ecosystem spanning facilities across West Africa, the company will launch its new Tier III data centre project in Sagamu, by Q4 2018, Ghana in 2019 and Cote I’voire in 2020.
MainOne’s data centre is the only facility certified in West Africa to process payment card information with its Payment Card Industry Data Security certification. It was built to TIA 942 and Uptime Institute Tier III Standards and also has ISO 27001 and 9001 certifications.
