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Orange Botswana Data

Centre Project Making

Smooth Progress

(L) Directorr of Operatins Orange Midle East Africa -Jerome Henique
(C) Orange Botswana CEO Dr Patrick Benon and Eng.Olu Solaude -MD of AOS Engineers

n an effort to contribute towards ahead of schedule. There have been art telecommunication services in
Botswana’s ICT and infrastructure normal challenges such as rain delays, Botswana The Data Centre is expected
Idevelopment, Orange Botswana is but the team has been able to mitigate to be completed by end of October this
constructing a world class Data Centre in them and still keep to the original year.
Botswana’s Technology Park, Botswana plan. The brick work, including the
Innovation Hub. Following the ground- roof, is nearing completion, and this As a reminder, the Orange Data Centre
breaking ceremony which took place on will be followed by key Electrical and will cover 81% of the population with
30th November 2018, the Data Centre Mechanical works. The equipment has 2G technology, 62% of the population
construction is well under way, and been sourced and ready for delivery. with 3G technology and 45% of the
steady progress is being made in line Materials and equipment being used population with 4G technology, offering
with the project plan. in the construction of the Data Centre greater levels of security, flexibility and
include the latest technology that access to data and information around
The project is at 27% completion, 3% provides reliable and state-of-the- the world. This state-of-the-art Centre

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