{"id":448796,"date":"2022-06-14T12:25:03","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T10:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=448796"},"modified":"2022-06-14T15:55:42","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T13:55:42","slug":"these-towns-and-small-cities-are-getting-edge-data-centres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cloud-hosting\/448796-these-towns-and-small-cities-are-getting-edge-data-centres.html","title":{"rendered":"These towns and small cities are getting edge data centres"},"content":{"rendered":"

Open Access Data Centres (OADC) has announced the deployment of nine new edge data centres in South Africa.<\/p>\n

The 0.5MW data centres offer colocation, rooftop access, and high-speed network interconnectivity between facilities at up to 100Gbps and on multiple routes.<\/p>\n

Of the nine facilities, three have been completed. These are located in Pietermaritzburg, New Germany, and Mount Edgecombe.<\/p>\n

The remaining six will be located in Beaufort West, Paarl, George, Kimberley, East London, and Brits and will go live by August.<\/p>\n

These sites will be joining Polokwane, Kelksdorp, Gqeberha Greenacres, Grabouw, and Nelspruit, where OADC data centres are already live.<\/p>\n

OADC explains it consolidates edge computing, edge data centres and hyperscale connectivity within a single ecosystem, helping ISPs, fibre providers, and 5G operators quickly and cost-effectively extend their network reach into new markets.<\/p>\n

OADC chief technical officer Bob Wright said the sites were open-access and carrier-neutral, meaning any licenced operator can bring their fibre into the facilities at no charge.<\/p>\n

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Bob Wright, OADC chief technical officer<\/p><\/div>\n

OADC first launched its platform in South Africa in early May 2022<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The company plans to have 26 edge data centres live in South Africa by end-August, growing to 100 by the end of the year.<\/p>\n

OADC said in addition to expanding network coverage, its edge services delivered latency improvements by enabling content to be served locally, maximising the end-user experience and underpinning the successful rollout of new, time-sensitive applications.<\/p>\n

“The ability to pre-process large volumes of critical data at the edge, before it is forwarded to larger, regional facilities, also improves efficiency and optimises backhaul expenditure,” the company explained.<\/p>\n

OADC also plans to establish larger 2-3MW core data centres in Johannesburg and Cape Town during the third quarter of the year to support core-to-edge connectivity.<\/p>\n

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Now read: South Africa’s explosion of cloud computing providers<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Among the towns and cities included in the rollout are Paarl, Beaufort West, Brits, and New Germany. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":448806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[78266,727,22807,78262],"class_list":["post-448796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-hosting","tag-bob-wright","tag-cloud-computing","tag-data-centres","tag-open-access-data-centres-oadc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448796"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448796"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":448804,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448796\/revisions\/448804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}