Since the beginning, Datagroup-Volia has invested UAH 500 million in the purchase and installation of new equipment, the opening of a new data processing center (DPC) and other areas of the company’s development, its CEO Mikhail Shelemba said at a press conference on Wednesday .
“We launched a new data center on 300 sq. m. We launched it both for our customers and for the needs of the company’s modernization. There is a lot of new equipment that was placed in this center,” Shelemba said.
According to him, the center has a total area of 300 square meters, 103 telecommunication cabinets, 4,326 RU (resource units), two power inputs of 1 MW each and three standby diesel power plants of 800 kW, as well as a system of modular uninterruptible power supplies.
In addition to the new data center, Datagroup-Volia invested in the installation of more than 200 units of new equipment, laying 34 thousand km of fiber-optic network, and also opened its own international crossings to Poland, Germany and Slovakia, increasing the network throughput up to 4 Tbps and the capacity of backup links by 10 times.
Separately, Shelemba noted that since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Russia, the company has joined initiatives to help the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the population, in particular, connected 60 schools and humanitarian centers to free Internet, 440 bomb shelters in 18 regions of the country, and also committed to provide for 50 orphans war before they come of age.
In June 2021, Datagroup, a provider of fiber-optic infrastructure and digital services, completed the signing of an agreement to acquire 100% of the Ukrainian provider of pay TV and cable high-speed Internet access services of the Volia group of companies, and now they are developing as a consolidated asset.
