This accomplishment signifies that GBB Data Center’s design and facilities meet the highest international standards, ensuring high reliability and availability.

It also strengthens GBB’s capability to provide cloud, disaster recovery and business continuity services to organizations in both the public and private sectors.

Furthermore, this milestone accelerates Nigeria’s digital transformation and accelerates the nation’s journey towards becoming one of the leading digital economies across the African continent.

Uptime Tier certification is one of the world’s most authoritative data center rating systems. The certification system ranges from Tier I to Tier IV, with Tier IV being the highest. It encompasses three dimensions: design, facility, and operations.

Tier IV data centers offer the highest level of redundancy and fault tolerance, achieving an availability of 99.995%.

The global digital economy is booming. As Africa’s largest economy and most populous country, Nigeria has been promoting the digital economy.

Recent initiatives include the National Digital Economy Policy and Strategy 2020–2030 and the National Broadband Plan 2020–2025. These efforts aim to accelerate digital infrastructure construction, increase broadband penetration, narrow the digital divide, and promote sustainable economic growth.

Established by the Federal Government of Nigeria, GBB provides ICT facilities and services for government ministries, departments, and agencies, and is responsible for building and operating the National Information and Communication Technology Infrastructure Backbone (NICTIB), a fiber optic network that spans the country and has connected nearly 30 states with high-speed fiber connectivity.

In phases 1 and 2 of the project, data centers were built in Abuja and Kano, respectively, to meet growing network demands. 

Huawei Join Hands with GBB to Build Prefabricated Modular Data Centers and Achieve Ultimate TTM

Building a traditional data center takes up to 30 months from planning and design to onsite construction, which is not conducive to rapid service rollout.

After several rounds of evaluation, GBB chose Huawei. In the phase 2 of the project, GBB adopted Huawei’s FusionDC1000B prefabricated modular data center solution.

This solution transforms the traditional sequential construction mode into one that features concurrent onsite construction and factory prefabrication, achieving fast delivery and on-demand deployment.

The data center consists of 17 prefabricated containers and integrates multiple systems such as the smart module, modular UPS, lithium battery, data center infrastructure management (DCIM), and iCooling.

Through engineering productization, prefabrication, and pre-commissioning, only simple hoisting and assembly are required onsite, significantly reducing onsite construction waste and achieving dust-free construction.

It takes only one month to hoist 17 containers and complete equipment installation and testing, making it the fastest construction time among local data center projects of similar size.

Additionally, the prefabricated containers have a service life of 50 years and can withstand magnitude 3 earthquakes and scale 12 winds. They meet IP55 dustproof and waterproof standards, providing building-like quality and experience.

The Highly Reliable Tier IV Data Center Helps Nigeria Accelerate Digital Transformation

High reliability and availability are the eternal pursuits of data center construction. However, most of the existing data centers in Nigeria are Tier III. Therefore, to meet market demands, GBB partnered with Huawei to build Nigeria’s first Uptime Tier IV data center with dual certifications.

In designing the data center, GBB drew on the exterior and interior layout of the industry’s best data centers and pre-integrated the equipment and power distribution rooms.

And for the first time, peripheral power supply and distribution equipment, air conditioner indoor and outdoor units, and maintenance and visitor’s passages are prefabricated into modules. As a result, the data center achieves an industry-leading prefabrication rate and passes the Uptime Tier IV certification in both design and facilities.

Professor Ibrahim Adeyanju, managing director and CEO of Galaxy Backbone, said,

“Achieving this Tier IV certification from Uptime Institute is a testament to our unwavering dedication to excellence in cloud, data center, and business continuity services. This certification assures our clients that they can rely on us for the highest levels of service availability and security. We remain committed to driving innovation and delivering world-class services to support the digital transformation of Nigeria and beyond.”

Huawei will continue to work with GBB to build green, simple, smart, and reliable (GSSR) digital infrastructures across Nigeria and other African countries interested in similar services. This partnership aims to help Nigeria bridge the digital divide, share digital dividends, and illuminate the future of West Africa with digital advancements, powering the digital era forward.

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Mr. Halilu disclosed this on Thursday in Abuja when the House Committee on NASENI paid an oversight visit to the Agency’s Headquarters to inspect its products and projects towards robust research in technological advancement in Defense/Security Sector, Agricultural Sector, Infrastructural Sector and others.

Amongst the recently unveiled NASENI products included NASENI Laptop, Android Smartphone, Lithium Battery, LED Solar Street Light, Solar Irrigation System, Electric Bicycle, Electric Keke (passenger and Cargo types). The EVC used the visit to showcase two newly branded NASENI electric vehicles (EV) to the lawmakers.

According to Halilu, NASENI has been at the forefront of driving Nigeria’s technological advancement and industrialization. “Over the past few months, we have implemented several key initiatives aimed at transforming our operations from primarily research-based activities to commercialization of our products and services.”

“This transformation is essential for us to contribute more effectively to the national economy and to achieve sustainable development goals,” he said, adding that 85 per cent of NASENI projects are on counterpart funding. “We don’t want to invest alone in what we do and that is why we work with our 3C’s principle of Collaboration, Creation and Commercialization, thereby engaging the services of private sector by partnering with them to ensure that we deliver on our mandate.

He stated that about 35 products of NASENI under his watch are market ready. “We are ready for Nigerian market and we want the honourable members to be our first ambassadors through patronage and others. Also, we are establishing show-rooms in all the 36-states of the federation for the marketing of our products. Every activity we do, we have commercial plan. We don’t want our products to end up in shelves, but to get to the end users”, he stated.

Highlighting the achievements of NASENI so far, the EVC/CEO listed some of them to include: Innovation and Research Development, Product Commercialization, Renewable Energy Projects and Capacity Building. He called on the lawmakers to keep supporting NASENI to deliver both capital and consumer goods to the nation, including creating jobs for the teeming Nigerian youths.

In his speech, the Chairman, House Committee on NASENI, Hon. Otunba Abimbola Ajilesoro, said the essence of the oversight visit was to have an opportunity to interact with the Agency towards robust research in technological advancement in Defense/Security Sector, Agricultural Sector, Infrastructural Sector and other areas of human endeavours, adding that it will in turn save and bring in much needed foreign exchange that will impact positively on the economy.

He pointed out that the committee has been following the activities of the Agency. “We have been hearing NASENI branded products, NASENI Laptops, NASENI Android Smartphone, NASENI Lithium Battery, NASENI LED Solar Street Light, etc. The Committee deemed it necessary to see for ourselves, these products and other technologies that will enhance Nigeria’s economy.”

Speaking on the mandates of NASENI Development Institutes, he assured NASENI of the Committee’s readiness to support it in the areas of Appropriation and Legislative framework that will strengthen the Establishment Act to enable the Agency deliver effectively.

“However, while the committee will continually give all necessary support periodically, it will demand for accountability and value for money in the implementation of its lofty programmes embedded in the mission and vision of the Agency. This would enable us expand, deepen and create an enduring part for a sustainable technological advancement, thereby enabling the nation to  become an Industrial hub amongst the comity of Nations”, he said.

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