Interchange Datacentre Specification
One of a select number of ISO 27001 facilities, Interchange Datacentre features a state of the art technical environment and is strategically located 20 minutes outside the central London “risk zone” and outside the main M25 London orbital route.
Specially trained and highly experienced systems and network engineering staff actively manage and maintain the facility around the clock.
Custom Design
- ▪ ISO 9001:2000 and ISO27001:2005 ISMS certified
- ▪ VESDA Smoke detection system
- ▪ Hi-Fog suppression using centrally stored nitrogen gas
- ▪ Redundant fibre sources and redundant aggregate switches and core routers
- ▪ Network features direct BGP peering with Tier 1 providers
Security
- ▪ Dedicated facilities management team
- ▪ Security with strictly enforced visitation procedures
- ▪ Access control using proximity card readers
- ▪ Multiple CCTV cameras
- ▪ Secure managed delivery and loading area
- ▪ All operational personnel are security cleared to SC level
Power Conditioning
- ▪ Minimum N+1 redundancy on power supply
- ▪ Mains power supplied via 2 x 11kV incomers
- ▪ Diverse A&B supply 11kV ring main units
- ▪ N+N 800KVA per floor
- ▪ Power and cooling systems supported by diesel generation back up power systems
- ▪ On-Site diesel tanks support non-stop back up power generation with 24x7 fuel delivery callout contracts in place
HVAC Temperature Controlled Environment
- ▪ Minimum N+N resilience on chilled water cooling system
- ▪ Temperature in data centre space maintained at 22 Deg;C ( +/- 2oC)
- ▪ Humidity range of 50% (+/-10%) in data centre space
- ▪ Air cooled chillers supplying 1.68MW of cooling
- ▪ Close control units (CCUs) delivering 1MW of conditioned air into the data centre space per floor
Rack Profile
- ▪ Heavy duty 42U racks
- ▪ 80 % air space back and front
- ▪ Secure locks – Keys to each rack are held on-site
- ▪ 2x Power distribution panels ( 2 x 24 way outlets)
- ▪ Rack is dual fed 240V AC – single phase terminated by 32 Amp commando socket ( Grid A & Grid B)
- ▪ Maximum current draw of 16 Amps or 32 Amps per rack.
