Trinidad Express posted an article on January 14, 2021, about TSTT creating a data centre. Below are some key highlights:
- The security guard at the entrance of the compound checks the trunks of cars entering the compound, but she deploys an inspection mirror to view the undersides of all vehicles.
- Security is very important at the MDC, (Mausica Data Centre) but so are a host of other variables including site location, architectural layout, fire detection and suppression, physical security and ability to withstand strong earthquakes and hurricanes.
- The facility must be strictly temperature, humidity and dust-controlled 100 per cent of the time, which dictates that the compound must be fed by two 12 kilovolt electricity lines coming from different sources as well as a back-up generation supply that can last for 14 days at 100 per cent capacity.
- The data centre itself is backed up by a mirror facility at one of TSTT’s exchanges. Those redundancies were responsible for the data centre receiving the TIA-942 B Tier III certification in 2014 from the Telecommunications Industry Association, which makes it the only data centre with such accreditation in the Caribbean and one of only nine in the western hemisphere.
- TSTT, which is 51 per cent owned by the State’s investment holdings company, National Enterprises Ltd, is looking to make public cloud offering available to the Government, which is engaged in a drive to digitalise the administration of the public services as quickly as possible.
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