NTT Ltd.’s Global Data centres division will expand its global data centre footprint by 20% to build a connected future that will benefit enterprise and hyperscale clients around the world.
NTT operates data centres across Europe, North America, Africa, and Asia, including a major presence in India. In the APAC region, NTT’s Jakarta 3 in Indonesia will launch 15MW at Bekasi, approximately 30km from Central Jakarta, by the end of this year.
Additionally, Cyberjaya 5 in Malaysia started to provide 6.8MW and plan to expand another 6.8MW to the Cyberjaya campus. In Japan, a new data centre with 21MW of IT load capacity has been built in Tokyo. In response to strong demand from its clients, NTT is considering further expansion in Bangkok (Thailand), Osaka Metropolitan area (Japan), and Southern Vietnam.
“The pandemic has dramatically changed our way of life. People’s quality of life now fundamentally depends on this infrastructure. In the next 18 months, NTT plans to increase data centre operations by 20% to a total of over 600,000m2 (approx. 6.5M ft2) of floorspace in over 20 countries and regions. In addition, NTT will globally expand approximately 30 connection points of GDCI service in our data centres to optimize the enterprise hybrid cloud environment over NTT’s data centres and network services. NTT has already started construction to add 300MW of IT load to its portfolio. With the completion of new data centres, expanded campuses and high capacity networks such as the MIST submarine cable, we are building a connected future that will benefit NTT’s clients around the world.” Masaaki Moribayashi, President and Board Director for NTT Ltd.
APAC Growth
In India, NTT said that with Mumbai 8 going live soon, the Chandivali campus, which includes India’s first operational hyperscale data centre park, will reach 85MW of IT load. Over the next 18 months, four new hyperscale data centre parks will also become operational: two in Navi Mumbai and one each in Chennai and Delhi, adding approximately 133MW of IT load and 50,000m2 of floorspace, the company said.
Further, Interconnections for 10 data centres across India will also be rolled out in 2021 and submarine cable landing stations are planned in Mumbai and Chennai. In addition to the expansion of NTT’s global data centre footprint, NTT is currently constructing a “MIST” large-capacity submarine cable connecting Singapore, Malaysia, and India (Mumbai and Chennai). The MIST cable system will have a total length of 11,000km: a distance which is further than flying from New York, across the US and the Pacific Ocean to land in Tokyo. Construction will complete in mid-2023, NTT said.
Interconnected digital backbone
The infrastructure combination of such a significant increase in global data centre capacity coupled with NTT’s status as a tier 1 global network service provider, will provide businesses with a secure platform for increasing full-stack ICT service needs, opine industry watchers. Global Data centre Interconnect (GDCI), an integrated global network fabric service that delivers a cross regional data centre network and private secure connection to major cloud service providers with a single physical port supporting multiple virtual network services, increases this capability to provide a high speed interconnected digital backbone across its global markets.
The increased submarine cable system will also help to provide cross-regional data centre interconnections. The buildout also includes Americas and EMEA region, which includes data centres in Virginia, California, Chicago, London, Munich, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, among others.
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