Network & Data Centre
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Data Center Overview
The state of the art The Planet data center located in Dallas, Texas
offers complete redundancy in power, HVAC, fire suppression, network
connectivity, and security. With over 35,000 sq ft of raised floor. The
datacenter facility sits atop multiple power grids driven by TXU
electric, with PowerWare UPS battery backup power and dual diesel
generators onsite. Our HVAC systems are condenser units by Data Aire to
provide redundancy in cooling coupled with 10 managed backbone
providers. Twelve more third party backbone providers are available in
the building via cross connect. Fire suppression includes a pre-action
dry pipe system including VESDA (Very Early Smoke Detection Apparatus)
with over 500 smoke detectors.
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- 60,000 sq. ft. facility
- 35,000 sq. ft. of raised floor
- (21) 26-ton Data Air AC units
- Very Early Smoke Detection Apparatus (VESDA)
- Pre-action dry pipe sprinkler system
- Over 500 smoke detectors in an integrated system
- Simplex security badge entry/exit on all doors to facility
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- Multiple TXU electrical grids
- 4800 volts of input power
- 3 main transfer switches
- (6) 500KVA Powerware UPS units with 90 batteries per unit
- Standalone PDUs at each cabinet row
- 1-megawatt generator (2000-gallon tank)
- 1.5-megawatt generator (2200-gallon tank)
- DataTrax monitoring software for all data center infrastructure
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Network Infrastructure
Our network architecture utilizes the Enterprise routing and switching
engines from Juniper and Cisco. We utilize Juniper M20 routers as border
routers, Cisco 6500 series switches in our distribution layer and Cisco
6500 switches in our aggregation layers, and Cisco 3500 and 2900 series
switches at the customer layer. Our network is fully meshed and
redundant with 10 backbone providers. Our current network consists of
UUNet (GigE), Sprint (GigE), Level 3 (GigE), Global Crossing (GigE),
Verio (GigE), AT&T (GigE), Time Warner (GigE), Allegiance Telecom (2 x
GigE), Broadwing (GigE) and AboveNet (2 x GigE).
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Network Building Fiber
- Cisco Certified Network
- Cisco 6500 series distribution routing switched
- Cisco 6500 series aggregation switches for customer access
- Juniper M20 border routers
- 100% uptime SLA utilizing HSRP/BGP
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Building Fiber
- OC48 SONET Ring - SBC
- OC48 SONET Ring - Time Warner
- OC48 SONET Ring - XO Communications
- OC48 SONET Ring - MCI
- OC48 SONET Ring - Looking Glass
- OC48 SONET Ring - Broadwing
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- Intelligent Networking |
Network Redundancy
BrickHost uses intelligent end-user routing software called Border
Gateway Protocol (BGP) between there OC-3s. BGP identifies which path is
the most efficient for each data packet and then routes the packet to
its destination via the quickest path. This increases the speed at which
web pages and data sent from the BrickHost Windows NOC arrive at their
destination.
Studies have shown that the most common reason for downtime is circuit
failure on Tier 1 provider backbones, the major data highways. To guard
against this potential problem, we have two Tier-1 providers. If one
experiences problems, we can route traffic down another one.
Furthermore, because we are OnNet with Level(3) and Qwest, we share
their digital distribution architecture, which includes private peering
network connections to major Internet carriers such as MCI, Sprint,
UUNET, EUNET, AT&T, AOL, Best, Erols, @Home, IBM Advantis and others.
These private peering arrangements allow BrickHost to quickly and
efficiently exchange packets of data with every major backbone carrier
in a one-to-one environment.
BrickHost Windows Network Operations Center (NOC) is located in Orlando,
Florida in the modern Level(3) Communications Data Center, serviced by
Qwest connectivity. |
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