telkom kenya: Mombasa Data Center

The Telkom Kenya Mombasa Data Center, located at Telephone House, Moi Avenue, Mombasa, serves as a critical infrastructure node for Kenya’s eastern coastline and East Africa’s submarine-fibre gateway market. The facility is operated by Telkom Kenya and is strategically positioned to support colocation, carrier-neutral connectivity and hosting services in a region with strong subsea-cable, international transit and interconnection traffic. 

Its location in Mombasa places it in proximity to major cable landings and offers enterprises and carriers low-latency access to coastal-East African traffic. The site complements Telkom Kenya’s national data-centre footprint and strengthens presence outside the Nairobi market.

⚙️ Facility Highlights

• Open-access, carrier-neutral design allowing local and international clients to colocate equipment and network infrastructure. 
• Redundant 3-diverse fibre-route entries into the site to ensure connectivity resilience. 
• White-space capable of accommodating 100+ racks (52-U rack height), with raised-floor clearance and flexible footprint sizing. 
• Cooling infrastructure built to an N+1 redundancy standard per room, with temperature and humidity control in line with international best practice. 
• Designed rack power density of 4 kW dual-input per rack, with AC and DC-support infrastructure, plus dual backup generators and modular UPS. 

🔐 Security & Compliance

• Two-factor physical access (fingerprint plus access card), vehicle barrier, turnstile control and CCTV surveillance covering both external perimeter and internal colocation zones.
• On-site, 24×7×365 staffed operations centre responsible for monitoring infrastructure, security and environmental systems. 
• Supports service-level availability via robust electrical and mechanical design suited for mission-critical deployments.

🌐 Connectivity & Carrier Access

• Fully carrier-neutral with diverse fibre entry points and presence of multiple ISPs, network service providers and regional transit operators.
• Positioned in Mombasa — a key cable-landing zone for East Africa — offering low-latency access to submarine cables and regional traffic flows.
• Designed to enable cross-connects, peering, caching services and turnkey hosting/colocation for enterprise, cloud and network clients. 

💼 Who It Serves

• Enterprises and digital-services firms requiring East Africa-based colocation with strong connectivity and resilience.
• Carriers, internet-service providers and content-delivery networks leveraging Mombasa’s subsea-cable gateway location.
• Cloud and hybrid-cloud operators seeking infrastructure outside Nairobi, closer to coastal traffic and international routes.
• Businesses with latency-sensitive workloads or network-edge needs in the East African region.