Megafon Data Centers

2019: MegaFon decided to independently build data centers

On March 21, 2019, MegaFon announced plans to build its own data centers instead of buying existing capacity from other data center operators.

We carefully studied the data center market for existing proposals, "an official representative of MegaFon told TASS. - As a result, it was decided to independently build data centers using the most modern solutions.

The company noted that this decision is caused by problems when existing data centers either represent the services of the past round of technology development, or set unreasonably high prices for these services.

MegaFon did not disclose the volume of planned investments in the construction of its own data centers.

Megafon will refuse to buy data centers and will build its own

By March 2019, MegaFon has a network of data centers with 18 facilities. They are located in cities such as Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kazan, Samara, Orenburg, Novosibirsk, Stavropol, Murmansk, Krasnodar, Yekaterinburg, Tomsk, Khabarovsk.

All data centers are built according to the requirements of the international standard TIA-942  and are located  in buildings that are either  owned by the company or  on a long-term lease.

MegaFon notes that data centers  and network infrastructure are designed  taking into account the requirements for  ensuring the continuity of customers' business  and correspond to the Tier 2/+ reliability level (in   accordance  with the Uptime Institute classification). At the same time, the Samara data center has an international certificate  for compliance with the requirements of the Tier-3 category.

In 2018, MegaFon's capital expenditures, including for the expansion of the data center network, increased by 45.5% compared to 2017 and reached 81.46 billion rubles. Part of the costs came from the purchase of equipment necessary to comply with the Spring Law.^[1]

2018

The company's network includes 6 data centers and 165 sites in all of Russia

As of 2018, the distributed network DPC "" Megaphone includes six main centers located To Moscow in the Moscow region,,,, and To Samara Novosibirsk 165 sites throughout. Russia

In 2018, Megafon began to modernize data centers and increase their operational efficiency using a new architecture. Among the company's tasks are to reduce the construction time of the data center and reduce the presentation time of data center resources due to the use of scalable technical solutions and automation of business processes. To do this, Megafon plans to standardize the architecture of centers, use modern solutions in architecture, energy and cooling systems, such as modular fast-production structures, unified equipment, energy-efficient power and cooling systems.

Start of the data center in the SEZ "Technopolice Moscow"

On September 4, 2018, MegaFon PJSC announced the launch of the Data Processing Center (DPC), located on the territory of the Technopolice Moscow Special Economic Zone.

According to the company, the construction of the data center began in April 2017. The lease term is 20 years. The transport node of the center guarantees the capacity of communication channels up to 1.3 Tbit /sec. and has ring protection. The data center will be used to place its own server and other telecommunications equipment, and can also be used to implement joint pilot projects with company partners. According to 2018 data, 400 technological racks are located on the territory of the Center with an area of ​ ​ 1,500 square meters. m. The total capacity of the data center is 3.2 MW.

The technical capabilities of the data center provide the development needs for the near future of the Metropolitan Branch of MegaFon PJSC and Subsidiaries (Gars Telecom, MegaLabs), make a significant contribution to the development of infrastructure for the digital economy of the region, contain the potential for processing government orders, including the implementation of requirements 374-FZ, as well as help the effective development of the special economic zone "Technopolice Moscow is Moscow" Anton Pirogov, Operating Director of the Metropolitan Branch of MegaFon PJSC

As reported, the data center has a TIER III reliability certificate.

The construction used innovative engineering solutions, including power and cooling systems that will achieve energy efficiency.

The cooling system that was used in the framework of the creation of the data center deserves special attention. This is an innovative solution - an adiabatic cooling system (cooling due to water evaporation), which significantly reduces the cost of equipment and its operation and preserves the environment. In this case, electricity consumption is significantly reduced compared to conventional air conditioning systems. Anton Pirogov, Operating Director of the Metropolitan Branch of MegaFon PJSC

Cooling of the process rooms, where telecommunication and server equipment will be installed, will be provided using 11 adiabatic air cooling units manufactured by Munters, model Oasis-200. The cooling capacity of each unit is 232 kW.

Reliability of power engineering solutions is ensured by joint use of guaranteed and uninterrupted power supply systems. Guaranteed power supply provides power supply when voltage supply to the main power supply is stopped. In MegaFon Data Center, the guaranteed power supply system is implemented using 3 diesel generator units with a capacity of 1620 kW each, with a fuel reserve of 24 hours of continuous operation at full load. When power supply is completely stopped, data center equipment is provided by uninterrupted power supply and storage batteries.

2012: Network of data centers designed by HP

Until the end of 2013, Megafon promised to build commercial data centers designed to provide services to third-party customers in each federal district. In addition to the existing data centers at that time in Samara, Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk and Khabarovsk, from where such services were already sold, the operator planned to build data centers in the Moscow Region, St. Petersburg and Rostov. Hewlett-Packard became the general designer.

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