TELECOMS giant TelOne on Thursday commissioned its Bulawayo data centre and customer experience hub in a bid to improve data connectivity and customer interface in the Southern region.

The data centre — a first of its kind in the Matabeleland region — is part of TelOne’s product expansion drive, which has seen the firm investing more than US$4 million since 2016.

Boasting a total rack capacity of 120, the Hillside-situated data centre has a total power capacity of 400kVA and is a Tier-3 designed facility that offers redundancy for all critical components such as power, cooling, and other active equipment.

Essentially, this means that TelOne customers, who are largely banks and financial organisations, telecommunication providers, private companies, government departments, and a range of information technology service providers, will enjoy highly customisable, fully managed, and secure disaster recovery hosting for carrier-grade IT resilience.