Huawei assists Galaxy Backbone in building Nigeria's first Uptime Tier IV Design and Construction dual-certified data center.
Huawei has partnered with Galaxy Backbone to build Nigeria's first Uptime Tier IV Design and Construction dual-certified data center. This collaboration marks a significant milestone in Nigeria's digital transformation, ensuring high reliability and availability for the country's ICT infrastructure. Utilizing Huawei's prefabricated modular data center solution, the project achieved rapid deploymen
Recently, Galaxy Backbone (GBB), a Nigerian ICT service provider, successfully obtained Uptime Tier IV certification, making it the first data center in the country to achieve dual certification for both design and construction at this highest level. This certification indicates that Galaxy Backbone's data center meets the international standards for the highest level of reliability and availability in design and construction, contributing to the acceleration of Nigeria's digital transformation and ICT infrastructure development.
Uptime Tier certification is one of the most authoritative data center rating systems globally, with four levels of certification, Tier IV being the highest. Data centers that achieve Tier IV certification offer the highest level of redundancy and fault tolerance, with an availability of 99.995%.
As Africa's largest economy and most populous country, Nigeria has been actively promoting digital economic development in recent years. The country has launched the "National Digital Economy Policy and Strategy 2020-2030" and the "National Broadband Plan (2020-2025)" to accelerate the construction of digital infrastructure, improve broadband penetration, reduce the digital divide, and foster sustained economic growth.
Galaxy Backbone, established by the Nigerian Federal Government, provides ICT equipment and services to government ministries, departments, and agencies. It is also responsible for building and operating the National ICT Infrastructure Backbone (NICTIB), a fiber-optic network that spans the entire country. The first and second phases of this project include the construction of data centers in Abuja and Kano to meet the growing demand for network services.
**Partnering with Huawei to Build a Prefabricated Modular Data Center for Optimal TTM**
Traditional data centers take up to 30 months from planning and design to on-site construction, which cannot support the rapid deployment of services. After multiple assessments, Galaxy Backbone chose to partner with Huawei for the second phase of the data center project. Huawei's FusionDC1000B prefabricated modular data center solution transforms the traditional serial construction model into a parallel on-site and factory prefabrication model, enabling rapid delivery and on-demand deployment.
The data center is assembled from 17 prefabricated modular containers, integrating multiple systems such as micro-modules, Modular UPS, lithium batteries, DCIM, and iCooling. Through engineering productization, the components are prefabricated and pre-tested in the factory, requiring only simple hoisting and assembly on-site. This significantly reduces the "three wastes" (waste gas, waste water, and waste residue) generated during construction and enables "dust-free" construction. The 17 containers were installed, equipped, and tested within just one month, making it the shortest construction cycle for a data center of this scale in the region. Additionally, the prefabricated containers have a lifespan of 50 years, are resistant to Level 3 earthquakes and Level 12 winds, meet IP55 dustproof and waterproof standards, and offer quality and experience comparable to building structures.
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High-Reliability Tier IV Data Center Accelerates Nigeria's Digital Transformation
High reliability and availability are the perpetual goals of data center construction, but most of Nigeria's existing data centers are rated at Tier III. To meet market demand, Galaxy Backbone partnered with Huawei to create Nigeria's first Uptime Tier IV Design and Construction dual-certified data center.
During the design phase, this data center drew extensively from leading industry data center designs for both exterior and interior layouts. The server rooms and power distribution rooms were pre-integrated, and for the first time, all modules, including peripheral power distribution equipment, outdoor air conditioning units, and maintenance and visitor corridors, were fully prefabricated, setting a new industry standard in prefabrication rates. Ultimately, the data center successfully achieved Uptime Tier IV dual certification.
Professor Ibrahim Adeyanju, Managing Director and CEO of Galaxy Backbone, stated, "Achieving Uptime Tier IV certification is a significant recognition of Galaxy Backbone's continuous pursuit of excellence in cloud computing, data centers, and business continuity services. We remain committed to providing our customers with highly secure and available digital services. We will continue to innovate and offer better services to accelerate digital transformation in Nigeria and beyond."
Looking ahead, Huawei Data Center Energy will continue to collaborate closely with Galaxy Backbone to build secure, green, simplified, and intelligent digital infrastructure, helping Nigeria bridge the digital divide, share in the benefits of digitalization, and illuminate West Africa's future with the light of the digital world, ensuring the digital world runs steadily.
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