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NEWS e-shelter secures second data centre campus in Berlin shelter, a leading data centre provider in Europe and a member of the NTT Group, has acquired a development site from BMDF Gewerbepark Berlin-Mariendorf GmbH & Co. KG. It will enable the company to develop a data centre campus of 60,000 sqm and 90 MVA of data centre capacity with the first phase scheduled to be ready in Q4 2020. Berlin is innovating to keep up with data demand ‘Marienpark Berlin’ is located just south of the city centre and is 14km from the existing e-shelter Berlin 1 data centre which provides 13 MW of capacity. Customers at the Marienpark data centre campus will have access to e-shelter’s e-connect platform featuring multiple carrier and cloud providers. The close linear distance of the sites within the Berlin city region means customers will have the option to operate infrastructure in both, Berlin 1 and the new campus in an ‘active-active-configuration’. Volker Ludwig, Senior Vice President Sales of e-shelter, said: “Demand in the Berlin market has been sustainably growing over the past years. We see digitisation as one of the key drivers and experience strong demand from several industries including hyperscalers, public sector and media.” ///////////////// LuxTurrim5G ecosystem expands with new Connected Zone bus stops I n 2018, Teleste built a smart and safe bus stop at the Nokia Campus in Espoo, Finland, as a part of the LuxTurrim5G ecosystem. The innovative bus stop has been designed to improve safety and Finland is taking the right steps towards becoming smarter security for public places through Teleste’s Connected Zone concept that was launched in 2018. Now, after the successful pilot, two additional Connected Zone bus stops are applied to the ecosystem. With the new bus stops, the project also anticipates the pilot of an autonomous bus route that is being planned for this summer as a part of the LuxTurrim5G test network. “It’s really exciting to be a part of the LuxTurrim5g project and we look forward to our future collaboration. Piloting the smart and safe bus stop at the Nokia Campus has been highly successful and we are pleased to go forward with expanding the use of Connected Zone within the ecosystem,” said Stig Waldemarsson, Director of VSI Scandinavia at Teleste Sweden. LuxTurrim5G is a Nokia Bell Labs driven ecosystem project developing and demonstrating fast 5G network based on smart light poles with integrated antennas, base stations, sensors, screens and other devices. This joint project opens new digital services and business opportunities for a real smart city. www.intelligentcio.com INTELLIGENTCIO 15