FEATURE: DATA CENTRE SOLUTIONS
Siemon helps
Flexenclosure create
a data centre of
excellence for ACS
When Flexenclosure was selected to build a prefabricated data
centre for ACS, the company turned to Siemon to provide the
cabling infrastructure that fitted the customer’s requirements for
customisation and scalability.
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s one of the world’s leading
designers, manufacturers
and builders of modular
prefabricated data centres,
Flexenclosure only uses best-in-class
components within its facilities. That’s
why it used cutting-edge network
infrastructure technology from Siemon
throughout a new facility it created for
Angola Comunicações e Sistemas (ACS).
Challenge
Located on the western coast of
Southern Africa, Angola is divided into
18 provinces, with the city of Luanda
being the capital. One of the continent’s
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major oil producers, Angola is striving
hard to tackle the physical, social and
political legacy of a 27-year civil war
that lasted until 2002.
As part of this rebuilding process, the
country has done much to improve its
IT solutions and network connectivity
infrastructure, with ACS leading the
way in providing private networks,
hosted data and other related Internet
services to the private and public
sectors including banks, government
departments and entities across Angola.
ACS has rapidly expanded its
business in recent years and was
fast outgrowing its main data centre
facility, which was not only too small,
but also unsuitable to house highly
sensitive ICT equipment. To compound
the issue, the construction of many
larger buildings around it was causing
line of sight problems for its Very Small
Aperture Terminal (VSAT) antennae
– a significant issue with many of
ACS’ corporate banking clients relying
on ACS for mission critical services.
Having considered its options, ACS
identified a large greenfield site in
Benfica, the rapidly expanding new
business and commercial area of
Luanda, at which to locate its new
data centre facility.
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