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Orange Belgium opens secure and eco-efficient
data centre in Antwerp
O
range Belgium has opened a new highly secure and eco-
efficient data centre in Hoboken, Antwerp. The 1,000 m² data
centre will help Orange to manage the growing demand for mobile
usage of its customers by handling the billions of day-to-day
connections Orange customers make to surf, call and SMS. Orange
Belgium invested more than €14 million in the construction of this
best-in-class data centre.
Orange Belgium started the design of the building in 2016 together
with META architects and engineering offices, Ingenium and Deerns.
The goal was to create an economic data centre that excelled in
performance and sustainability.
The construction started in May 2017 and was finalised by the end of
the summer of 2018.
The data centre, which will be used for radio, telecom and IT
equipment, offers a total capacity of more than 500 high-density 52
units racks, installed on the equivalent of 12 tennis courts.
The impressive building is more eco-efficient than a standard data
centre as it is able to use free cooling for 98% of the year. It is also
highly secured and resilient thanks to systematically redundant
critical elements.
The new data centre has a specific energy-friendly design of
closed hot aisles cooled with an adiabatic free-cooling system. This
frames in its sustainable strategy that makes Orange the only CO²-
neutral telecom operator in Belgium for its operations (network
and buildings).
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Teleste continues to work with Alstom by
delivering solution in Italy
T
eleste is continuing cooperation
with Alstom, a leading provider of
integrated transport systems, by delivering
its on-board solution to Coradia Stream
trains designed for public transport
operators in Italy and operated by
Trenitalia under the name POP. The now-
agreed deliveries will begin this year and
they continue the collaboration between
Teleste and Alstom that was launched
under a frame agreement in 2017.
Teleste’s deployment to Alstom will include
the company’s passenger information
systems (PIS), on-board video surveillance,
intercommunication and public address
systems as well as TFT and LED information
displays. The entire on-board solution is
especially designed for easier, safer and
more entertaining travelling and it supports
seamless integration and management of
the on-board systems as part of larger public
transport ecosystems.
“We appreciate the opportunity to
continue cooperation with Alstom in
developing solutions for smart and safe
public mobility. As the number of public
transport users maintains a consistent level
of growth worldwide, there is an increasing
demand for more effective travelling with
high availability of real-time passenger
information and services; with decades of
experience and innovative, state-of-the-
art technologies, we are committed to
working with our customers to drive this
transformation forward,” said Pekka Vänni,
Director of the On-board Solutions business
unit at Teleste.
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