FEATURE: DATA CENTRE SOLUTIONS
“We have built the most advanced
telecommunications facility in
Angola and it positions ACS to take
an undisputed leading position in the
delivery of mission critical voice and
data communications services to the
corporate market.”
systems in a clean factory environment,
with the result that a customer can
be confident that their data centre
is fully operational and optimised for
performance before it ever reaches the
site for final construction.”
A detailed design study was initially
carried out to make sure that the
facility would meet ACS’ needs, both
immediately and in the future. Upon
selecting Flexenclosure’s design
and handing over ownership of
the project, Carlos Carvalho, Chief
Technology Officer of ACS commented,
“Prefabricating the data centre in
Sweden gave us peace of mind that
the facility would be of the highest
quality. Most of all, Flexenclosure
understood our goal at ACS to bring
the best technology to Angola and to
our customers.”
Flexenclosure delivered a full turnkey
facility, including not only the data
centre but also the entire site, including
the civil works, telecommunications
tower, VSAT farm, NOC, electronic
security, office space, personnel facilities
and other site infrastructure. The result
was an 880m², 1.25MW data centre,
designed to sit effortlessly within an
aesthetically pleasing site (another one
of ACS’s requirements; a data centre
that looked like a traditional building in
a fully-landscaped site).
Flexenclosure’s enviable reputation for
delivering facilities of the highest quality
comes not only from its track record of
successful data centre deployments, but
also on its uncompromising use of state
of the art components.
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INTELLIGENTCIO
For Flexenclosure, working with Siemon
as the cabling infrastructure provider
was an easy decision as the companies
already had a very good relationship.
“Siemon and Flexenclosure have a
longstanding relationship and have
worked on a number of data centre
projects together. This experience means
that we can get the best from each
other’s products and deliver the optimal
cabling solution for our customers. And
with eCentre being a fully customisable
data centre offering, the Siemon
solution can be precisely adapted to
the customer’s needs and deployed
according to Siemon recommendations.
Flexenclosure’s experience is that its
customers appreciate the Siemon
solution as part of an eCentre project,”
says Baart.
splice-based connectivity system.”
In addition to XGLO, the ACS data
centre also benefits from Siemon’s
pre-terminated Category 6A copper
trunks, and pre-terminated MTP-
MTP and MTP-LC optical fibre reels
and trunks. These were used in
association with the company’s
Copper/Fibre Combo Panel, which
allows copper outlets to be mixed in
the same rack mount space as fibre
plug and play modules. The compact
1U design offers integrated cable
management features and supports
Category 5e to 7A and all multimode
and singlemode fibre applications.
When asked why they chose to
work with Siemon, Tomas Rahkonen
replied, “We pride ourselves on
delivering the highest quality data
centres and, as such, it’s important
that we work with the leading
cabling suppliers. Siemon never fails
to provide a total solution when it
comes to quality, technical support,
prompt delivery and overall value,
and as a certified installer of its
products, we can offer its 20-year
warranty to all of our customers.”
Siemon’s solutions also allowed
Flexenclosure to satisfy the customer’s
requirements for a scablable solution
that could grow with the company.
The plug and play system modules
For the cabling infrastructure in the ACS
project Flexenclosure used cutting-edge
products from Siemon’s WheelHouse®
advanced data centre solutions. These
included XGLO™ multimode OM3
high-density plug and play optical fibre
incorporating modules and FCP3 72-
port and 96-port enclosures.
“The XGLO fibre optic system is
ideal for next-generation backbone
applications,” explains Dan Vout, Sales
Manager, Siemon EMEA. “It utilises laser
optimised fibre for superior transmission
performance for up to 10 gigabit
Ethernet applications and exceeds all
ANSI/TIA/EIA and ISO/IEC insertion
loss and return loss requirements. When
it comes to installing XGLO fibre optic
cabling, time is also saved thanks to
the use of Siemon’s XLR8™ mechanical
Tomas Rahkonen, Chief Technology
Officer, Flexenclosure
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