Nigeria: Airtel Data Center in Nigeria Set for Launch

​Airtel, a leading telecommunications company is set to launch a state-of-the-art digital center in Nigeria, TechEconomy.ng can report

The Airtel Data Center our correspondent gathered, will house all business digital systems, data and applications, serving everything that keeps the business IT operation running in an uninterrupted manner.

The Data Center located in Lagos will provide Nigerians and business owners access to ​​unlimited internet.

The center is coming on stream barely few months, Airtel Africa awarded Ericsson a turnkey project to relocate and modernize their existing network and core services to a new data center in the Seychelles.

Featuring a blend of legacy and virtualized network functions, the partnership will provide Airtel Africa with a new hybrid network cloud environment, bringing significant efficacy gains.

The hybrid network cloud environment at Airtel Data Center will increase network and cost efficiency, reduce time to deploy applications, and enable developers to innovate and bring new applications to Airtel Africa subscribers quicker.

As Voice over Long-Term Evolution (VoLTE) becomes the new standard for calling throughout the world it becomes necessary for service providers to have efficient infrastructure capable of providing VoLTE services.