Somali data can now stay in Somalia
Carrier-neutral racks with 2N power, N+1 cooling and cross-connect to four submarine systems in the same building. Residency stops being an argument about contract wording and becomes a question about where the rack is. That argument is why most of this floor is taken by Somali institutions — but the floor is open, and the rack next to theirs may belong to a carrier, a content cache or a satellite operator processing passes taken on the antennas outside.
Built for Somali obligations. Not reserved for Somali tenants.
The reason the facility exists is that Somali institutions had nowhere lawful and survivable to put their systems. That remains the first job. It is not the only one, because a carrier-neutral building at a cable landing point is useful to anybody whose traffic or workload has business here.
Somali banks, ministries and enterprises
- The requirement
- Citizen and customer records held under Somali jurisdiction, with a residency position that survives an audit
- What they take
- Racks, private cages and managed compute, usually with a restore point in a second building
- Why it matters here
- The alternative was a server in an office cupboard or a data centre on another continent. Neither answers a regulator
Content, cloud and CDN operators
- The requirement
- Serving Somali users from inside Somalia rather than from Europe or the Gulf
- What they take
- Rack space, power and cross-connect to the carriers and subsea systems in the meet-me room
- What it delivers
- An in-country cache and peering point that keeps Somali traffic in Somalia — lower latency for users, less international transit to pay for
Satellite operators
- The requirement
- Somewhere to process and store what the antennas collect, without hauling raw data off the continent first
- What they take
- Colocation metres from the teleport, cross-connected to the dishes and to four submarine systems
- How it is bought
- Usually as part of Ground Segment as a Service, where the antenna, the power, the rack and the backhaul come as one arrangement
UN agencies and international NGOs
- The requirement
- Programme and beneficiary data held in country, with an operator that can be named in a procurement file
- What they take
- Managed compute and backup, frequently alongside connectivity for field sites
- What they ask first
- Contracting entity, physical security of the compound, and who has access to the room at 2am
Regional carriers and East African businesses
- The requirement
- A presence at a landing point they do not own, or a disaster-recovery site outside their home market
- What they take
- Rack space and cross-connect, sometimes with capacity onto our backbone
- Neutrality
- Carriers who compete with us are cross-connected on the same terms as anyone else. That is policy, not a favour
Four things you can actually buy
Deliberately written without the word “solution” in it. These are units of space, power and connectivity, and they are priced as such.
Colocation
- Units
- Quarter rack, half rack, full rack, cage or private suite
- Power
- Committed draw with 2N distribution, metered and reported
- Access
- Controlled compound, access logged, escort for non-listed visitors
Cross-connect
- To carriers
- Any carrier present in the meet-me room, including ones who compete with us
- To subsea
- Direct to four submarine systems in the same building
- To us
- Onto our backbone and autonomous system, if you want it — never a condition
Cloud & compute
- In-country compute
- Hosted capacity for organisations that do not want to own hardware
- Backup & restore
- A restore point inside Somalia, in a different building from production
- Why here
- Restoring across an intercontinental link is often slower than the outage
Residency & compliance
- Documentation
- A written residency position naming the facility, operator and jurisdiction
- Audit
- Site visits and evidence for your regulator, auditor or donor
- Certification
- Certifications held and those in progress, with dates, documented for your file
Four questions that actually settle residency
Where is the equipment physically located? Who holds the keys to the room? Which company employs the engineer with access? Whose law applies to the building?
A contract clause about data location answers none of them. Our answers are the same for all four: Mogadishu, Dalkom, Somali engineers, Somali jurisdiction — and you are welcome to come and verify each one in person.
Tell us the racks, the power and the obligation
Send us how much space you need, what draw you expect, who you need to cross-connect to and what compliance position you have to be able to demonstrate.