Ooredoo Telecommunications

Client and Project Introduction

Ooredoo is a Qatar-based Telecommunications company. They provide mobile, wireless, wireline, and content services

Customer Need Challenges Constraints

The client’s challenges were:

• The current white space within Ooredoo Data Center Bawsher-1 was insufficient to fulfill the increase in the business demand for Ooredoo’s internal use alongside collocation and hosting requests. So, Ooredoo decided to build a new data center to accommodate 600 racks within challenging environments.
• The new data Center is to be built within a space inside the existing facility, where the designated location was the car parking area with existing underground utilities (fiber lines, power cables, water liens and fuel lines) with unclear rooting i.e. A main fiber line feeding the major Ooredoo data center and the radar is passing under the designated plot.
• The electricity authorities rejected Ooredoo’s request for a new substation to feed the new Data Center, as they are obliged to utilize the spare power capacity available in their existing substation/transformers, in which is not sufficient to cover the full load requirement.

The project requirements were:

• Execution within a live environment with zero downtime
• The time frame for brick and mortar facility was very tight (18 months)
• The schedule should not be impacted despite Covid19 restrictions
• Cost-effective solution
• A full turnkey solution for the data center. So it was designed and built by ONE contractor with services including design work, consultancy, civil work, MEP work, Data Center work, testing, commissioning, and handing over