V.tal Launches Second Colombian Edge Information Heart in Barranquilla: Report

Brazilian datacenter and impartial fiber community proprietor V.tal has inaugurated its second Edge knowledge heart, often known as BDC2 (or Chiva 2), in Barranquilla, Colombia. Situated adjoining to V.tal’s first web site, BDC2 was beforehand anticipated to go stay by the top of 2023. The Brazilian datacenter and impartial fiber community firm launched the Edge Information Heart Facility this month, in response to a BNamericas report.

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V.tal’s BDC2 Facility

V.tal invested greater than USD 20 million into the challenge. As beforehand up to date by V.tal, the power presents 3 MW of IT capability and house for as much as 200 racks after the completion of all its growth phases. The power is situated adjoining to the prevailing facility BDC1 (Chiva 1), which presents 1 MW of capability and house for 80 racks.

Connectivity in Barranquilla

The brand new facility goes stay with Trans Americas Fiber System as a significant buyer. Will probably be touchdown its TAM-1 submarine fiber optic system at Chiva 2 in Barranquilla. With over 7,000 km, TAM-1 will join Colombia with a number of nations with dozens of touchdown stations in its first part. It is because of begin service in the course of the second half of 2025.

Just some weeks again, V.tal, in a LinkedIn submit, up to date that the BDC2 knowledge heart will combine with its connectivity ecosystem with the remainder of the world. The corporate’s current facility, BDC1, homes the CLS (Cable Touchdown Station) and the PIT (Punto de Intercambio de Trafico), working as a connectivity hub for telecom operators and native and international web, cloud, and content material suppliers.

“Barranquilla is the town the place Colombia exchanges knowledge with the world and, due to this fact, consolidated itself as a strategic place to put in a datacenter. At BDC2, we’ll provide colocation providers, interconnection with content material and cloud suppliers and different shoppers to change site visitors, in addition to entry to all of the providers supplied by V.tal in its terrestrial and submarine fiber optic community,” mentioned V.tal in an announcement.

V.tal Information Facilities in Brazil

At the moment, V.tal operates two knowledge facilities in Fortaleza and one in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, along with the Colombian services. The corporate has introduced a brand new facility referred to as V.OA in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, with a gap scheduled for the second half of 2024.

V.OA will likely be totally built-in with the corporate’s different 4 edge knowledge facilities (2 in Fortaleza, 1 in Rio de Janeiro, and 1 extra in Barranquilla, Colombia), which join with submarine cable arrival stations in the USA, Bermuda, Colombia, Venezuela, and Argentina to Chile and the terrestrial fiber optic community current in all Brazilian states.

The corporate additionally acquired land for a 3rd web site in Fortaleza, which will likely be its first hyperscale-focused knowledge heart. The power referred to as Mega Lobster is predicted to be working in 2025, as per the sooner bulletins.

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V.tal

V.tal has over 20 million properties handed out there for FTTH (Fiber To The Dwelling), 430 thousand kilometres of ground-based optical fiber, connecting greater than 2,300 municipalities in Brazil, and 26,000 kilometres of subsea cables that join Brazil to Argentina, Venezuela, Colombia, Bermuda, and the USA, in addition to edge knowledge facilities distributed between Brazil and Colombia.