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January/February 2015 Telecom Reseller 15

Trusted data will tip the balance

between success and failure in 2015

T
he wheels are turning ever faster in
seen that this is indeed a critical combination
data boom continues to accelerate globally,
the telecom industry. For every year, for the specialised tower companies that
prefabricated facilities will be increasingly K
there are new and oten unexpected are increasingly taking over ownership and adopted not only by telcos, but also by ING
developments. As we face another eventful
management of these sites, as the success of their colocation and global Internet companies
year, industry expert David King, CEO of core business depends much more on the long worldwide, driven by their ability to be quickly by David King, CEO of Flexenclosure (www.lexenclosure.com)
leading data centre and power management term reliability and cost eiciency of their power and easily expanded as required. he data centre
systems supplier Flexenclosure, describes which developments had the biggest impact in 2014 eicient and quick to deploy as manufacturers equipment than it did to the mobile operators themselves. Implementation of green power colocation market has been quietly putting down roots in Africa and will now enter a
and what we can expect from 2015.
had promised and customers had hoped, and solutions that reduce diesel fuel consumption growth phase – with prefabricated facilities
A year ago, when I was asked which trends many telecom companies and mobile operators has been one result of this trend, as well as giving colocation providers the ability to
would have a signiicant impact on the mobile have chosen this path – ACS Angola, Vodacom eforts to increase telecom sites’ reliability and precisely time facility expansion, thus allowing
industry in 2014, I predicted that there would be Mozambique and MTN Côte d’Ivoire being just uptime.
them to maintain a high level of utilisation
an increasing interest in prefabricated modular a few examples in emerging markets.
So what’s in store for 2015? Here are the three (return on capital) while avoiding missing out
data centres to cope with the expected data Another trend that I predicted was a renewed trends I think will have a major impact on the on new customers due to a lack of capacity.
boom in developing countries. One year later, focus on increasing reliability and reducing ICT industry in the year ahead:
At the same time, global Internet companies
we can see that prefabricated modular data operating expenses when powering mobile
2015 is the year that prefabricated modular will take increasing advantage of the capital-
centres have proven to be just as lexible, energy
base station sites. In the last 12 months we’ve
data centres will truly come of age. As the
eicient expansion opportunities and risk-free
build process ofered by prefabricated data
centre buildings. And of course, an additional
beneit is that prefabricated data centres can
ofer very high quality and price competitive
solutions compared to traditional brick and
mortar buildings. his previously tended to
drive demand mainly in developing economies,
but we will now see exponential growth in the
adoption of prefabricated modular data centre
solutions from developing and developed nations alike.
In the mobile telecom site arena, we will see
specialised towercos continuing to take over
responsibility for tower sites from the mobile
operators. For the towercos, operational cost
savings are key to driving business proitability,
while for the operators it’s network uptime.
Power solutions that can reduce diesel-related
expenditure in areas where grid power is
unreliable or unavailable, while at the same time
guarantee network uptime, will therefore be in
much demand and drive signiicant innovation.
To ensure that this combination of operational
reliability and guaranteed network uptime can
be delivered, power equipment vendors will
need to develop long-term partnerships with HELPING YOU GET THERE. GREATAMERICA.
managed service companies and we will see
new energy service companies (ESCOs) start
to establish themselves in many markets. he broader presence of ESCOs will in turn reinforce
the green site power trend, as these companies
look to invest in the most cost eicient power
equipment for generation and sale of power
to the telecom operators under long term
contracts.
As mobile towerco networks increase in
both size and the number of tenants hosted,
the availability of trusted site data will drive the
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