Raxio Angola to be commissioned in 2024
Raxio Angola is the country’s first carrier-neutral Tier III data centre facility and will be a critical feature to the country’s evolving digital infrastructure and will help accelerate the country’s demand for digital tools and services across industries. More information will be coming soon.
Cacuaco – In close proximity to Luanda city centre
Along main fibre route
Tier III Standard
Up to 800 Racks
2 – 21 kW per rack
Financial Services
Telcoms
ISPs
Enterprise
CDNs
Combined with the new upcoming subsea cable landings and investments in terrestrial infrastructure, Raxio Angola will facilitate internet traffic amongst content providers locally and internationally and make the internet experience faster, more resilient, and more affordable for all digital users.
AO1 Data Centre key specifications
Download AO1 Data SheetOur 24×7 facility is ideally located along key fibre routes, delivering best-in-class colocation, cross-connect, fibre and IT infrastructure services. Raxio Angola can house up to 800 racks and deliver 7MW of IT power. The site offers full redundancy with concurrent maintainability and seven layers of physical security.
Location
- In close proximity to Luanda city centre
- Along main fibre route
Building Overview
- Purpose build facility from the ground up
- Long term leasehold
- 54U 600x1200mm racks
- Scalable to Double Floor
- 4,000m2 of white space
- Flexible IT space with the ability to create bespoke environments as required
Main Structural Features
- Administration block and ancillary buildings are traditional construction
- The data hall and MEP rooms are steel frames with concrete floors with vertical steel plate wall
- 5.6m slab-to-slab height
- Floor loading 15kN/m2
Power Supply
- 33kV utility supply directly fed from the nearest Substation
Redundancy
- 2N power redundancy from MV Transformer, Generator, UPS, Busbar to Rack PDU
- Fully diverse power distribution to technical areas
Fuel Backup Storage
- On-site fuel storage to support 72 hours at full capacity with 24x7x365 fuel delivery
- 7 min UPS autonomy
Cooling System
- 7MW of installed cooling provision initially
- Minimum N+1 resilience on all systems
Humidity Control
- Humidity in technical space is controlled within the recommended range of ASHRAE TC9.9
Energy efficiency
- Energy efficient indirect adiabatic cooling
- Environmental Sustainable with PuE of 1.3
Carrier Neutral
- Carrier neutral with 11 connectivity providers terminating fibre to the facility
Network Dense
- With access to multiple global and regional carriers and Internet service providers offering
- Dark Fibre, IP Transit, Peering, CDN, Storage, Virtualised Services (SDN), Voice and Mobile Services
Cloud Services
- Access to multiple cloud services through leading public, private and hybrid cloud solution providers
Diversity
- 2 dedicated Meet Me Rooms
- 2 diverse fibre intake points
- Diverse cable routes and pathways
- Onsite Tower Mast
- Onsite Satellite Earth Station
24x7x365 Manned Guards
- Operations Centre manned 24x7x365
- Security guard patrols 24x7x365
- Secure managed delivery and loading area available 24x7x365
Intruder Detection Systems
- Continuous CCTV surveillance of external and internal areas
- Comprehensive intruder detection and alarms to all areas
- 2.4m boundary wall with razor wire
- Road blocker at the site entrance
- Access control using proximity card readers and biometric readers
Fire Detection and Suppression
- Analogue addressable fire detection system in all areas
- Aspirated early warning smoke detection system VESDA (monitored 24x7x365)
- Gas suppression system protects data hall and all technical areas
Services principaux
Set to commence operations in 2024, Raxio Angola will offer its customers an optimized environment for their IT equipment in a state-of-the-art, modular facility, fully equipped with industry’s best in technology, security, AC/DC power compatibility, and redundancy. In addition to providing an ideal environment for the leading industries across Angola, Raxio Angola will be a key feature of the country’s digital backbone.
Colocation
About
Our carrier-neutral data centre is purpose-built and certified to Tier III standards, and offers 99.9% uptime and best-in-class equipment.
The facility offers customers affordable, secure colocation spaces and hosting environments of up to 800 racks to hold all mission-critical IT infrastructure in a 24/7 redundant environment.
Carrier Neutral
Allowing customers to interconnect and choose from a diverse range of carriers.
Tier III standards
To ensure a 24/7, concurrently maintainable and redundant environment with no single points of failure.
Modular
Phased capacity rollout to meet current and future customer demands, with the ability to grow within the facility as needs require.
PUE
Design PUE ratio of 1.3.
Cooling
Energy-efficient indirect adiabatic cooling technology with hot aisle containment.
Power distribution
Power distribution via redundant overhead tap-offs fed by busbars.
Power density
Able to accommodate racks from 1 kW up to 21 kW per rack.
Racks
Racks Standard 600 x 1200mm racks up to 55U. Custom solutions available.
Monitoring
24/7 NOC to ensure optimal performance and prompt troubleshooting.
Security
24/7 CCTV monitoring in addition to onsite security. Up to 7 layers of physical security between the entrance and the servers.
Cross connect
About
Our cross-connect cable services allow you to make quick, easy and direct connections to carriers, enterprises, content distributors, and cloud service providers. With dedicated CAT5/6 and fibre, we enable you to maximise connectivity and scale your business as quickly as possible. Our facility offers diverse Meet Me rooms to extend redundancy in connectivity and ensure maximal uptime.
Active & dark fibre
About
Our hosted carriers provide you with active fibre services carrying high SLA thanks to the diverse and redundant paths of connectivity to our data centres. For customers who have the capability to provide their own active equipment, we can also facilitate dark fibre networks to enable full control over services, capacity and routing.
Remote hands support
About
Our team of trained engineers operate on a 24/7 basis to provide technical support whenever you need it. This ensures your services will run smoothly from anywhere in the world.
Security services & caging
About
With advanced 24/7 security controls such as CCTV and on-site security, we can give our customers peace of mind and guarantee that their critical assets stay protected. Thanks to a variety of authentication and monitoring systems and physical caging, we ensure the highest levels of security.
Customer space
About
We offer private workspaces to help our customers work from our data centre. These spaces include hot desks, meeting rooms, and a large boardroom with a capacity of 12 people.
Lift & shift
About
Our team of professionals eliminate the hassle and risk of migrating your equipment to our data centres by handling the moving process themselves; helping to reduce the downtime and complexity of setting up IT infrastructure.
Access to third-party services
About
Raxio is an enabler for doing business within its data centres. Our customers will have unparalleled access to third-party services provided by other customers within the facilities such as:
- Connectivity services
- Cloud compute services such as:
- Software as a service
- Infrastructure as a service
- Platform as a service
- Back up storage
- Disaster recovery
- Cyber security
- Content Distribution
Notre histoire
Raxio Data Centre is an enterprise-grade data centre coming soon to Luanda, Angola, offering state-of-the-art, Tier III certified facility in the country.
Raxio Angola will operate as carrier-neutral and cloud-neutral, bringing customer benefits from a “shared infrastructure” model, and substantially reducing their operational and capital costs while improving application performance and flexibility.
Team
Emidio Amadebai
Directeur général, Mozambique & Angola
Julio Guivala
Vice-Président Ventes et Marketing, Mozambique et Angola
Dernières actualités
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Emidio Amadebai
Directeur général, Mozambique & Angola
Emidio est le Directeur Général de Raxio au Mozambique et en Angola. Il a dirigé avec succès la construction et la mise en œuvre du plus grand et du plus avancé des centres de données Tier III de Raxio au Mozambique. Dans le cadre de ses fonctions actuelles, Emidio supervise la construction et la livraison du centre de données de Raxio en Angola, qui devrait être achevée plus tard cette année, tout en développant les activités clés de l’entreprise dans les deux pays.
Avant de rejoindre Raxio, Emidio a travaillé quatre ans dans le secteur de l’énergie en tant que Directeur Général d’ENGIE et a passé plus de huit ans à travailler sur des projets informatiques et télécoms. Son expérience globale couvre la gestion, la prestation de services et des fonctions commerciales dans les secteurs des technologies de l’information, des télécommunications et des énergies renouvelables.
Julio Guivala
Vice-Président Ventes et Marketing, Mozambique et Angola
En tant que Vice-Président des ventes et du marketing, Julio dirigera la stratégie et l’exécution des ventes et du marketing pour le Mozambique et l’Angola. Il a travaillé plus de 15 ans dans l’industrie informatique et a occupé des postes de direction et de cadre supérieur au cours des 6 dernières années chez Business Connection Mozambique (BCX), où il a géré à la fois les opérations et les relations avec les clients, y compris les accords de niveau de service (SLA).
