Our Data Centre

Location

Our servers and storage are housed in Level 3 Communications' data centre facility situated on the northern fringes of the City of London.

Mains Power

• Maximum site power: 20 MVA
• Dual-redundant 20MVA, 33kV dedicated underground mains feeds, 4x 11kV supplies from ring supplied from two substations
• Three (five ultimate) x 3.8MVA 11kV diesel-driven emergency power generators. Automatic start in less than one minute to feed 100% of the facility.
• Fuel storage for 24 hour continuous operation at 100% load

UPS

• Three separate systems of five x 625kVA Hybrid Rotary UPS modules providing 2500kVA output each with N+1 redundancy
• Total facility UPS capacity: 7500kVA N+1
• 15-minute battery autonomy per UPS module
• Dual-redundant A and B distribution possible

Internet Connectivity

• Carrier connectivity: Level 3, Colt, BT, C&W, Interoute, 51 Degrees, Thus, Fibrenet, Energis, Tiscali/Nets

Environment

• Cooling Criteria: 750W/m2, 21 degrees C+/- 2 degreesC, 50%RH +/- 10%
• Underfloor cooling air distribution
• N+1 Perimeter down-flow chiller water cooling units
• 13x1100kWr Air-cooled package chillers giving 12,100kWr with N+2 redundancy

Closed Circuit Television (CCTV)

• CCTV monitoring and recording of all access points and circulation areas

Fire Strategy

• Very Intelligent Early Warning (V.I.E.W.) detection - above and below raised floor
• Smoke extract system at 12 air changes per hour
• Double-interlocked pre-action dry pipe sprinkler system

Security

• Full electronic access control system, based on Proximity cards, PIN keypads, and Biometric Palm-scanners for colocation rooms

Building Monitoring System (BMS)

• 24x7 local monitoring and logging of environment alarms and conditions
• Critical alarm repeating to London and Denver
• Full perimeter under-floor leak detection linked to building monitoring system