The largest Mobile Operator in Turkey, Turkcell has opened a new data center, touted as the largest in the country, in Gebze, near Istanbul. With the new data center that spreads over a total area of 33,000 m2, Turkcell triples its total data center space, reaching 52000 m2. The company also announced plans to open two other new data centers in Ankara and Izmir, the second and the third largest cities of Turkey, in the coming 18 months.
Turkcell aims to transform Istanbul into a regional hub of data, and serve global internet companies such as Google and Facebook as well as Turkish public and private sectors.
The new data center boasts an active area – known as “white space” - consisting of 20 rooms of 500 m2 each. It has 33 thousand meters of fiber connections. The infrastructure is supported by a 30-megawatt energy capacity and 25 generators of 2500 KVA each. Security is maintained with retina-scanning technology, 146 cameras and 6400 control sensors.
As the leading provider of fiber services in Turkey, Turkcell cooperates with international partners like Deutche Telekom, Telecom Italia, Telekom Austria Group, KPN and Tata Communications. Turkcell network supports more than 2 Tbps bandwidth in its international connections. In addition to the data traffic of Turkey, 50% of the data traffic to Georgia, Iraq and Iran also goes through the Turkcell network. In addition to serving its local customers, Turkcell now aims to expand its international collaborations into providing cloud services for global content companies and act as a node for international data traffic.
Kaan Terzioglu, CEO of Turkcell
As the global landscape of industrial production shifts to an ICT-focused mode with Industry 4.0, storing data safely and securely, and attaining the ability to analyze it become essential. With this new data center, we are providing the infrastructure for Turkey-based companies to benefit from these capabilities using the state-of-the-art technology at the highest global standards.
