New owner transforms landmark building into a digitally-connected hub

A LEADING carrier-neutral data centre and interconnection services provider in South Africa, Teraco: A Digital Realty Company, has acquired the iconic Great Westerford building in Cape Town from Ingenuity Property Investments.

Great Westerford, a landmark building with over 30 000sqm of premium grade office space, is situated in the prime location of Rondebosch, Cape Town.

The conclusion of the acquisition means that Teraco has ownership of the building that houses its CT1 data centre investment and results in the full ownership of all facilities and the underlying land that support Teraco’s leading, carrier neutral colocation portfolio. CT1 is the second largest interconnect hub in Africa, with over 6 300 interconnects and more than 1 000 deployable cabinets supported by five MW of utility power.

As one of Africa’s most digitally connected cities, Cape Town is a preferred destination for Teraco’s continued investment into data centre infrastructure in South Africa. Home to thriving digitally connected enterprises, including telecommunications, financial services, e-commerce, logistics, and retail, Cape Town benefits from being the landing of multiple major subsea cable systems such as ACE, WACS, SAT-3 and SAFE. The abundance of subsea cable connectivity is set to continue with the landing of Google’s Equiano and the 2AFRICA cable systems.

As part of Teraco’s broader Cape Town campus, the CT1 data centre provides enterprises with direct access to Platform Teraco comprising an ecosystem of over 250 network providers, global cloud on-ramps, subsea cable systems, access to over 50 managed service providers, and direct peering at NAPAfrica, Africa’s largest internet exchange point.

Clients deployed in either of these facilities can connect to AWS Direct Connect and Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute directly or via Teraco’s Africa Cloud Exchange (ACX). The Great Westerford acquisition brings an historic South African building into the digital age, which is now capable of supporting its tenants’ physical and digital business requirements.