Boost for digitalisation | Borneo Bulletin Online

James Kon

Unified Nationwide Networks Sdn Bhd (UNN) is investing in an eco-efficient information centre to fulfill Brunei’s growing digital wants following the signing of an settlement with Vertiv, a worldwide supplier of important digital infrastructure and continuity options, to design and assemble its information centre facility within the nation.

Slated to start building subsequent month, UNN’s prefab information centre may have the capability to host information and IT companies infrastructure of presidency and personal companies in Brunei.

Along with different current information centre places of UNN within the nation, the capability and companies might be supplied in geo-redundancy.

According to this, UNN opted for Vertiv’s prefabricated modular information centre versus the normal brick-and-mortar design owing to its velocity, flexibility and modularity that’s fast to deploy, set up and set-up.

Particular consideration was paid to realize excessive power effectivity for the brand new facility.

Signing on behalf of UNN had been Deputy Everlasting Secretary (Infocommunications) on the Ministry of Transport and Infocommunications and UNN Director Haji Hairul Mohd Daud bin Haji Abdul Karim and Chief Government Officer Dr Steffen Oehler, witnessed by Head of Procurement Nurul Hayati binti Mohammad Zabidi whereas signing on behalf of Vertiv had been Nation Supervisor Malaysia and Brunei Teoh Wooi Keat and Senior Director Telecom Gross sales Asia Danny Wong, witnessed by Head of Telecom Gross sales Malaysia and Brunei Kevin Khon.

In line with UNN, Vertiv was chosen to fulfil the primary section of the mission, consisting of 200 racks to assist UNN’s aim of creating a state-of-the-art high-availability information centre facility according to Brunei’s digitalisation roadmap. UNN was established in 2018 to handle Brunei’s digital telecommunication infrastructure providing wholesale telecommunication companies to each nationwide and worldwide purchasers. It additionally helps Brunei Imaginative and prescient 2035 which goals to develop a dynamic and sustainable financial system, backed by widespread implementation of know-how throughout key sectors.

“The advantages of a prefabricated modular information centre design actually outweigh that of conventional brick-and-mortar approaches. By compressing time-consuming processes resembling distinct engineering, website preparation, set up and start-up, a prefab design can deliver a facility on-line by as a lot as 30 per cent sooner than conventional builds. That is particularly essential for a buyer like UNN who’s seeking to deploy quick and scale with agility,” mentioned Danny Wong.

The prefab information centre designed by Vertiv for UNN might be housed in flat pack containers and designed in keeping with Uptime Institute’s Information Centre Requirements for electrical (Tier IV) and mechanical (Tier III). The prefab information centre will even comprise Vertiv’s state-of-the-art options, together with the modular Vertiv™ Liebert® APT, the Vertiv™ Powerbar iMPB busbar system, and cooling resolution, amongst others.

“After evaluating a number of distributors, Vertiv is essentially the most appropriate to fulfill our design, technical and operational necessities. We evaluated the advantages of a prefab design and consider it’s the greatest strategy that meets our imaginative and prescient at UNN. We stay up for working with Vertiv for this huge information centre mission,” mentioned Nurul Hayati.

With an estimated turn-key building time-frame of 10 months, UNN’s Part 1 prefab information centre facility is anticipated to open within the early quarter of 2024.

“Not solely are prefab information centres sooner and extra environment friendly to construct than conventional approaches, in addition they meet UNN’s need to extend effectivity and cut back emissions. We’re happy to be chosen by UNN for this mission – the primary prefab information centre deployment for Vertiv in Brunei.

“Vertiv and UNN are absolutely dedicated to work collectively to realize Brunei’s digital transformation objectives of turning into a digital financial system,” mentioned Teoh Wooi Keat.

“UNN is embarking on a large leap in its digital imaginative and prescient with the development of one of the vital superior information centres in Southeast Asia,” mentioned UNN Senior Vice President of Information Centre and IT Daniele Cuocci.

“Our 200-rack cutting-edge facility is a important step in Brunei’s mission to grow to be a frontrunner in digital innovation and set up itself as a key participant within the area. Designed to the best requirements, our new information centre is provided with the newest know-how and redundant methods to make sure most uptime and reliability. It’ll have the capability to host a variety of mission-critical functions and companies, from finance to healthcare and authorities companies in addition to enabling the long run onboarding low latency gaming and cloud companies.”