V.tal Starts Its Second Edge Data Center in Fortaleza

V.tal, a Brazilian fiber firm part of telco GlobeNet announced its launch of a new Edge data center in Fortaleza, Brazil. The new data center known as ‘Big Lobster’ will start with a capacity of 4MW spread across four data halls that can hold a total of 400 racks. The new data center is connected to the company’s neighbouring Fortaleza cable landing station.

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The Big Lobster

The combined two facilities provide 7,000 sqm (75,350 sq ft) with a capacity of 600 racks and more than 5MW of capacity. The new edge data center is fully integrated with its undersea Cable Landing Station (CLS). It features connection redundancy, providing secure data transmission. Additionally, the unit will be linked with the company’s other edge data center in Fortaleza. Since 2002, the CLS has been in use. The Fortaleza site was initially scheduled to launch in Q3 of 2022 when it was first announced in September 2021. The company has reportedly invested USD 59 million into the project.

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Cicero Olivieri, vice president of engineering at V.tal said, “With the kick-off of the new edge data center complex, V.tal consolidates itself as an ecosystem of neutral infrastructure solutions that provides its customers with robustness, resilience, redundancy, capillarity, and very low latency.”

Four Edge Data Centers

V.tal now has four complete edge data centers currently in operation with two in Fortaleza, one in Rio de Janeiro and another one in Barranquilla, Colombia. These data centers are connected by 26 thousand kilometers of undersea optical cables that connect Brazil to Argentina, Venezuela, Colombia, Bermuda and the United States.

Eduardo Silveira, vice president of strategy at V.tal said, “V.tal will invest to expand its data center park, as it complements its capillarity and footprint in all Brazilian regions, in addition to meeting the present and future requirements of its customers, due to innovations and new technologies that have been emerging.”