Chicago, Illinois

Chicago Datacenter

Facility Details:

• Raised floors
• 6,000 sq ft (expandable to 30,000 sq ft)
• Floor Load—250lbs per sq ft
• Power Density—Up to 10kW per cabinet
• 24×7 Technical Support Staff On-site

Infrastructure:

• Generator Capacity—1.5MW Caterpillar (expandable to 3x 1.5MW + pull-up generator tap)
• UPS Capacity—750 kVA Chloride UPS N+1, 15 minute battery capacity
  (expandable to 4.5 MW)
• Utility Power—5MW
• CRAC—4×70 ton Stulz Units, N+1 (expandable to 20×70 ton)
• Fire Suppression—VESDA particulate detection, clean agent extinguishers,
  Pre-action dry pipe sprinkler
• Chillers—230+ ton Smardt Units N+1 Chillers, 2N Pumps (expandable to 1050 tons)

Network

• Fiber Diversity—Dual fully diverse fiber paths, building entry points, and in-building riser
• Available Networks—Atlantic Metro Communications, Steadfast Networks, Abovenet, AT&T, Verizon, Qwest, Level(3) & RCN
• Transport Services—1.25Gbps, 10Gbps DWDM Waves, Layer 2 Transport to 600/700 Federal (Abovenet) & 350 East Cermak (TelX/MMR & Equinix)
• Internal Cabling—Cat6/6a for 10Gbps Ethernet, SMF/MMF available, overhead fiber trays

Security

• Proximity card access controls
• 24×7 camera monitoring & recording

Chicago Backbone Carriers

• Level(3) – Direct 10 GigE
• NTT – Direct 10 GigE
• nLayer – Direct 10 GigE
• PCCW – Direct 10 GigE
• Comcast – Direct 10 GigE + GigE
• Equinix Exchange Chicago – Direct 10 GigE
• Chicago Internet Exchange – Direct 2x GigE
• NYIIX – Direct GigE
• PAIX New York – Direct GigE
• PAIX Palo Alto – Direct GigE
• Any2 California – Direct GigE
• Equinix Exchange Ashburn – Direct GigE
• LINX – Direct GigE
• AMS-IX – Direct GigE