New eCentre data centre in Ecuador

CenturyLink is now beginning operations at its new Ecuadorian data centre, offering colocation, hosting, cloud computing, security, collaboration, communication and managed services to its clients. The facility will give customers a processing environment designed to provide high levels of availability, service quality and speed of access to the rest of the world, as well as fibre route diversity for the implementation of contingency and disaster recovery environments.

Gabriel del Campo, Vice President of Data Centres and Security at CenturyLink Latin America stated: "We are committed to deploying the highest quality infrastructure and providing the most innovative solutions and services to our customers. This data centre is built to optimise power and space efficiencies, and to enable us to bring new managed services to market very fast.”

The facility has been designed and built in order to achieve Uptime Institute Tier III certification, the first phase of the project consists of a single-story 300kW data centre. However, the earthquake-resistant facility is capable of vertical expansion up to two floors, providing additional white space for more than 100 racks on each floor, thus optimising the site footprint for maximum use.

David King, CEO, Flexenclosure, said: “This new data centre in Quito is the latest in a fast growing list of Flexenclosure deployments in Latin America. eCentre is the solution of choice for data centres requiring almost unlimited configuration flexibility without compromising on future expansion options, so they can quickly and easily grow in line with business needs.”

The custom-designed eCentre data centre was prefabricated, pre-integrated and fully tested at Flexenclosure’s manufacturing facility in Sweden, aiming to maximise capital efficiency and reduce deployment time and overall project risk.