Camtel Builds Giant Data Center at Zamengoe Near Y’de

CAMTEL GM, David Nkoto Emane giving instructions to engineers at the Zamengoe Data Center construction site.

The General Manager of Camtel has on Wednesday, 11 July 2018, visited the construction for a vast Data Center for the national telecoms provider, situated at Zamengoe, some 30km from Yaounde.

            David Nkoto Emane undertook the visit to the DataCenter construction site to make an appraisal of the rate of progress of the work and get assurance that the project would be delivered in record time.

            After taking a walk around the site, Nkoto Emane expressed satisfaction with the evolution of the project, which he says will bring multiple benefits to the giant telecoms leader and solutions provider in Cameroon – Camtel.

            The Zamengoe Data Centre Complex will cover a land surface of 3019 m2, while the one-floor (R+1) principal building to host the NBN2 Data Centre will occupy a land surface of 1789m2.

            The construction work for the Center is carried out by the Chinese company, China Shenyang International Cooperation Co Ltd, with the project owner being Huawei Technologies Company Cameroon Limited. The maitre d’ouvrage, Camtel, benefitted financing for the project from the China Exim Bank.

            For their part, the workers and engineers on the site were pursuing their work with confidence and serenity despite the presence of their August Guest and project commandeer, who is the GM of Camtel. They assured Nkoto Emane that all was going according to plan.

            “The rate of execution of the physical infrastructure that comprises of the main building and the energy supply and air-conditioning equipment is already at 36%. The decking for the first floor is already done. We are about to do the decking for the Mezzanine and the second floor. It is when we shall be through with these that we shall begin the second phase of the work which entails the putting in place of the data infrastructure proper,” said the project engineer, Jean Michee Masso Ntonga, who at once assured Nkoto Emane that the first phase of the project will be finished in the next two and half months.

            The Zamengoe Data Center will serve not only for transmission of data, but also for storage and treatment. It will ensure a high and better quality of data transmitted, and at a lesser and more efficient consumption of energy. It will permit for the storage of gigantic volumes of data that can be transmitted at high speed (haut debit).

            To David Nkoto Emane, the Data Center at Zamengoe will contribute in no small measure towards the development of the numerical economy of the country.

            “It is a project that will be of immense importance and great utility not only for the government but also for national as well as international organizations and companies at home and abroad,” boasted the GM of Camtel, David Nkoto Emane.