Rack Centre

Rack Centre is a State-of-the-Art, Tier III Constructed Facility Certified Data Centre offering Carrier Neutral Colocation Services without one second of downtime since live operations.

It is the First and Only data centre in West Africa to Achieve Uptime Institute Tier III Certification of Constructed Facility (TCCF). The Data Centre is in Lagos, Nigeria and provides 6,000 sqm (3000 racks) of energy-efficient and secure data centre space, hosting over 24 Telco’s, carrier providers, ISPs and directly connected to many undersea cables, with access to local loop, backhaul and global submarine network capacity, across the Atlantic and Indian ocean. The only truly carrier-neutral Tier III Constructed Facility Certified data centre with over 24 carriers in West Africa and the most connected data centre in Africa.

All 5 undersea cables serving Nigeria are directly connected, so all countries on the Atlantic Coast of Africa and to Europe are directly connected to Rack Centre by high-speed low latency fibre. Hosting with Rack Centre provides immediate and efficient access to all carriers for efficient connectivity in Nigeria and internationally.

The Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria, as well as the regional ECOWAS Exchange point, are hosted at Rack Centre, ensuring all local and regional Internet transactions are localised, thus transforming the performance of business applications hosted in the facility. Its "Cloud on Ground"​ services offer a locally hosted cloud marketplace.

The first and most comprehensive heterogeneous marketplace for Cloud Services hosted and delivered ‘on-ground’ within Rack Centre. The Rack Centre quality and geophysical location set it as an ideal ‘edge’ data location for international content providers, serving a population of 180 million in Nigeria.