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OADC is supporting and accelerating Africa’s digital transformation by constructing and operating a pan-African network of world-class, client-centric data centre facilities, fully connected into Africa’s largest network infrastructure and specifically designed to meet the demands of telcos, ISPs, the cloud operator and wholesale community and major enterprises such as finance and governments.

Enterprises, cloud operators, content providers – and the ecosystems supporting and supported by them – are changing their infrastructure deployment strategies, either to fulfil demand for content to move closer to the edge of the network, giving improved availability and premium performance, or to optimise networking and storage costs by pre-processing data locally. No longer is a presence in a single data centre sufficient to address a country or region. Instead, the need to make content available – and to process ever-greater volumes of data – closer to where it is generated or consumed, is increasingly demanding a core-to-edge architecture comprising meshed local and core data centres, fully connected into Africa’s network infrastructure across multiple countries and cities.

OADC data centre facilities are strategically located throughout the African continent, focusing on key locations for connectivity in each country. As well as creating facilities in major urban areas, OADC is  operating data centres at key cable landing stations for the new multi-Terabit per second Equiano and 2Africa subsea cable systems now under construction around Africa. The deployment of these cables is transforming connectivity in Africa, and by establishing world-class, open-access facilities at these strategic interconnectivity points, OADC is  enabling the creation of vibrant ecosystems of cloud operators, content providers, application providers, telecoms operators and other businesses.