| Data
Center Background |
| The data center
is a new, state-of-the-art facility located
in the Inverness Business Park at the intersection
of Interstate 25 and County Line Road. It
is built on today's technology and practices
a philosophy of being a security-focused operation.
This philosophy is exemplified by an advanced
Toshiba physical security system as well as
the very best network and security choices
for customers. Activities and services are
monitored by an experienced technical staff
24x7 from the Network Operations Center (NOC).
The facilities include 5,000 square feet
of raised floor, a 1,200 square foot telco
style room, in addition to a network operations
monitoring center, conference rooms, administrative
space and break room. |
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| Space |
- Raised Floor
Secure colocation in a 5,000 square foot
room with 18" raised floor. Wide
aisles provide convenience for the installation
and maintenance for today's rack-mounted
servers.
- Cabinets
Chatsworth Products (CPI) 27" x 39"
x 84" locking with internal vertical
cable management and vented front and
back doors.
- Private Suites
Available upon request.
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| Power |
- Eletrical Power
Electrical power from Colorado's Xcel
Energy is delivered from dual feeds from
the Surrey Ridge substation. The electric
service in the building is connected to
a parallel redundant Powerware UPS, which
delivers conditioned power to the data
center via a Starline Bussway system.
This system eliminates the need for traditional
power distribution units (PDU's) and enhances
the reliability of the system as well
as making "A" and "B"
power available to every computer equipment
cabinet.
- UPS
Dual Powerware 160KVA.
- Generator
Cummings 1000KW diesel generator with
7-day fuel reserve.
- Distribution
Starline Bussway provides A/B power to
all cabinets.
- ATS
1600 Amp Automatic Transfer Switch.
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| Access |
- Primary
Cable & Wireless Gigabit Ethernet
over multi-mode fiber to their national
fiber network node located in adjacent
building. This node has eight (8) OC-192
connections to the Cable & Wireless
network.
- Alternate
100 Mbps Ethernet over single-mode fiber
connection to the Denver Internap PNAP
via XO's Metropolitan Area Network.
- Available
ICG,Qwest and Level3. Qwest and ICG currently
provide OC-3 connections to the facility
and additional capacity is available from
both carriers.
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| Security |
- Access
Controlled by card key system issued by
NOC personnel staffed 24x7x365.
- Surveillance
Twenty-three (23) Toshiba cameras, connected
to a Toshiba closed circuit surveillance
system, monitor the data center. This
state-of-the-art system provides NOC staff
with the ability to visually monitor all
doors to the data center and all cabinets
within the data center. The system detects
any movement, triggering one or more of
the cameras to capture a digital image
of the movement, which is recorded to
a RAID based hard drive system. The images
are archived periodically and can be transferred
to any digital media on-demand.
- Data Center Floor Access
Controlled by access card and biometric
scan.
- Visitors
Visitors must be granted access by duly
authorized representatives of the data
center clients. A biometric scan and surrender
of the visitor's driver's license for
a proxy card is required for visitors
to gain access from the lobby to the administrative
area. Another biometric scan and use of
the access card is required to enter the
raised floor area.
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| Differentiators |
- The physical infrastructure utilizes
an $8.5 million investment by Colo.Com,
a previous tenant of the building that
went out of business due to over-investing
and over-building. This investment in
infrastructure provides a reliable, high
performance data center for customers
to host their mission-critical applications.
- The focus is to operate a high quality
data protection facility in Inverness
Business Park. This translates to a simple,
powerful business plan with positive cash
flow and a stable, profitable environment
for customers.
- The center is carrier-neutral and will
enjoy Gig-E and fiber accessibility to
XO, Internap, Cable & Wireless, Qwest,
MFS, ICG, AT&T and Sprint.
- The center is a highly stable, controlled
raised floor environment with an uninterruptible
power supply and back-up generator, fire
suppression, HVAC, separate cooling zones,
humidity control and security.
- Your equipment and bandwidth are monitored
24 hours by 7 days a week by our own engineers,
with enhanced monitoring services a call
away.
- Highly trained and experienced staff
is available to assist you 24 hours a
day, 7 days a week. Their expertise is
available for professional services in
advanced network design and logical security.
- Customer amenities such as day cubicles
with phone and Internet access, meeting
rooms and equipment set-up laboratories
with available flat screens, keyboards,
patch cords, tools, etc.
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| Environmental |
- Cooling and Humidity
Controlled by six (6) 30-ton Data Aire
air handling units (AHUs) providing N+2
redundancy. The AHus are completely redundant
(N+2) as only 3 of the AHU's are needed
to properly cool the data center if it
were fully loaded with equipment.
- Operating Environment
Set at 68°F (20°C) with 45% humidity and
a variation of no more than 4°F of temprature,
or 4% in humidity.
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| Fire
Detection and Fire Suppression |
- Fire Detection
Multi-zone above and below raised floor
monitored internally by the NOC and externally
by Honeywell. The data center has sensors
installed both above and below the raised
floor to detect gases that rise with the
airflow in the center as well as heavy
gases that tend to settle under the floor.
- Fire Suppression
Dry pipe pre-action system that will not
pressurize until two (2) mointors are
triggered. The fire suppression system
is a pre-action, dry pipe which would
discharge water only from the appropriate
locations if the heat in the data center
increases enough to trigger a fire sprinkler
head. The discharge of a sprinkler would
signal the emergency power off switch
which would simultaneously turn off the
electrical power to the entire data center
room.
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| Operations
Center |
- Staffing
24 x 7 x 365.
- Personnel
NOC personnel are well trained
with CCNA, CCNP, CCSA, CCSE, MCSE and
other certifications.
- Monitor
The Network, facilities, and
customers are monitored continuously by
best of breed monitoring tools.
- Remote Hands
Available for assisting customers.
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