Turkcell Opens Turkey’s Largest Data Center
June 03 2016 - 6:36AM
Business Wire
Turkcell (NYSE:TKC)(BIST:TCELL) unveiled Turkey’s largest data
center in Gebze, near Istanbul. With its new building, Turkcell
aims to turn Istanbul into a regional hub of data, and serve global
internet companies such as Google and Facebook as well as Turkish
public and private sectors.
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Turkcell opens Turkey's largest data
center with the goal of turning Istanbul into a regional
information hub. (Photo: Business Wire)
Turkcell’s new data center is spread over a total area of 33,000
m2. The active area – known as the “white space” - consists of 20
rooms of 500 m2 each. The building has 33 thousand meters of fiber
connections. The infrastructure is supported by a 30-megawatt
energy capacity and 25 generators of 2500 KVA each. Security is
maintained with retina-scanning technology, 146 cameras and 6400
control sensors.
Designed as a data center from the onset, Turkcell’s building in
Gebze has a Tier III design certificate as well as a Leed Gold
certificate - a mark of sustainability and energy efficiency. With
312 earthquake isolation units, the datacenter can withstand
earthquakes of magnitudes of up to 9.0 on the Richter scale. The
walls and doors of the building are fire-resistant.
Building on years of collaboration with global internet
giants
As the leading provider of fiber services in Turkey, Turkcell
cooperates with international partners like Deutche Telekom,
Telecom Italia, Telekom Austria Group, KPN and Tata Communications.
Turkcell network supports more than 2 Tbps bandwidth in its
international connections. In addition to the data traffic of
Turkey, 50% of the data traffic to Georgia, Iraq and Iran goes
through the Turkcell network.
In addition to serving its local customers, Turkcell now aims to
expand its international collaborations into providing cloud
services for global content companies and act as a node for
international data traffic.
“As the global landscape of industrial production shifts to an
ICT-focused mode with Industry 4.0, storing data safely and
securely , and attaining the ability to analyze it become
essential. With this new data center, we are providing the
infrastructure for Turkey-based companies to benefit from these
capabilities using the state-of-the-art technology at the highest
global standards.” said Kaan Terzioglu, CEO of
Turkcell. “With our technology leadership in Turkey and
international collaborations, we will establish a new Silk Road of
information on fiber, and contribute to raising the profile of our
country as a regional hub of information.”
Turkcell plans to further expand data center
capabilities
With the new data center in Gebze, Turkcell triples its total
data center space, reaching 52000 m2. The company also announced
plans to open two new data centers in Ankara and Izmir, the second
and the third largest cities of Turkey, in the coming 18 months.
Upon completion of these two data centers, Turkcell will have
107,000 m2 of data center area.
ABOUT TURKCELL: Turkcell is a converged telecommunication
and technology services provider, founded and headquartered in
Turkey. It serves its customers with voice, data, TV and
value-added consumer and enterprise services on mobile and fixed
networks. Turkcell launched LTE services in its home country on
April 1st, 2016, employing LTE-Advanced and 3 carrier aggregation
technologies in 81 cities. In 2G and 3G, Turkcell’s population
coverage is at 99.85% and 95.05%, respectively, as of March 2016.
It offers up to 1 Gbps fiber internet speeds with its FTTH
services. Turkcell Group companies serve 67.6 million subscribers
in 9 countries – Turkey, Ukraine, Belarus, Northern Cyprus,
Germany, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Moldova – as of March 31,
2016. Turkcell Group reported TRY3.2 billion revenue with total
assets of TRY26.2 billion as of March 31, 2016. It has been listed
on the NYSE and the BIST since July 2000, and is the only
NYSE-listed company in Turkey. Read more at www.turkcell.com.tr
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Hande Asik, +90-532 210 6471Turkcell Corporate
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