RCom in process of constructing 4.50-lakh sqft data centre in Navi Mumbai

Reliance Communications (RCom) is in the process of constructing a 4.50-lakh sqft data centre at its headquarters in Navi Mumbai. A data centre is a facility used to house computer systems and associated components such as telecommunications and storage systems. It would be the largest facility in the country and increase the company’s total space to 11 lakh sqft. The company is actually moving from being only a co-location partner to an end-to-end managed services provider and also setting up public cloud. This data centre is not only to service customers in India but also for offshore clients. The company controlled by billionaire Anil Ambani, already has five data centres in Mumbai, two in Bangalore and one each in Chennai and Hyderabad. Reliance Communications is India’s foremost and truly integrated telecommunications service provider. The company, with a customer base of about 150 million, including over 2.5 million individual overseas retail customers, ranks among the Top 4 Telecom companies in the world by number of customers in a single country.