Level 3 London Data Centre: Braham Street

Direct connectivity to the world’s largest IP backbone for the best performing and lowest latency bandwidth

Adapt’s East London data centre is based at the Braham Street facility of leading network provider Level 3 Communications. Servers and services colocated within Level 3 data centres have the unique advantage of being on-net to a large percentage of the financial community, content and media providers.

Adapt has worked in close partnership with Level 3 for 10 years and is a Level 3 European Premier Master Reseller.

Facility overview

• London City Tier lll data centre
• Tier 1 IP backbone
• Financial community - on-net
• Ideal for low latency bandwidth
• Key node for access to Level 3 CDN networks

Connectivity

Level 3 data centres are carrier neutral and are directly connected to all major telecommunications and data networks with access to all major peering points including Telehouse East and North and Telecity.

Offering network interconnects with all the major telecoms providers, the site is an ideal communications hub - Adapt can also arrange any carrier cross-connects and cable routing throughout the facility.

Adapt offers a broad range of connectivity options:

• IP transit from a choice of Tier 1 IP providers
• MPLS for higher bandwidth and low latency data transfer
• Resilient inter-site data centre connectivity
• Fibre channel
• Wavelengths

Level 3 data centre sites are connected to Adapt’s UK data centre network via resilient links, enabling  load balancing and synchronous replication across multiple production environments.

Space and power options

 Adapt will work with you to design the most appropriate environment for your servers and IT infrastructure:

• Technical space arranged over 6 floors
• Total size: 8,046 m²
• Fully fitted colocation space: 2,940m²
• Maximum site power: 4 MVA

Building

• Minimum floor to ceiling height: 3,100mm from top of raised floor
• 850mm raised floor height
• Raised floor loading 14kN/m²
• Structural floor slab: 5kN/m²

Power

• 2 x 2MVA diesel driven emergency power generators giving 4MVA
• Automatic start in less then 1 minute to feed 100% of the facility
• Fuel storage (diesel) for 24 hour continuous operation at 100% load
• 24/7 agreement with local fuel supplier
• 4 x 625kVA Hybrid Rotary UPS modules providing 1875kVA total output with N+1 redundancy
• 15 minute battery autonomy per UPS module
• Dual redundant A&B distribution strategy
• Underfloor power track distribution system

Cooling

• 750W/m² average cooling capability over the gross space
• Temperature regulated to below 26°C
• Humidity regulated overall to 50%RH +/- 20%
• Technical areas positively pressurized to minimize dust ingress

Fire detection and suppression

• Use of non-inflammable and low smoke zero halogen materials where possible
• Building split into sealed, independent, fire compartments
• Very Intelligent Early Warning (V.I.E.W.) detection
• Smoke extract system activated by fire alarm
• Double interlocked pre-action dry pipe sprinkler system

Security

• Remote 24/7 security monitoring
• Full electronic access control system, based on proximity cards with photo and PIN keypads
• Biometric palm-scanners in addition for colocation areas
• Intruder detection system on escape and riser doors
• CCTV monitoring and recording of all access points and circulation areas

Building Monitoring System (BMS)

• Local Operations and Control Centre
• Network monitoring system with critical alarm repeating to Regional

Connectivity

• Facility is designed to accommodate standard rack/cabinets of 2,200mm nominal height
• Power is normally distributed under floor, fibre and copper cabling distributed overhead (fibre within a managed containment system, copper within a heavy duty ladder rack system
• Fibre entry to the building is via two independent points
• Multiple carriers including Level 3, COLT, BT, C&W, Interoute and Adapt

General facilities

• Dedicated loading area - delivery hours 9.00-17.00 Mon to Fri
• Customer test room & storage area
• Goods lift

• Integrated with Adapt’s UK data centres
• Directly connected to Level 3 IP backbone
• On-net to global financial community, major content and media players
• Access to content delivery networks (CDN)
• Various transport offerings
• Flexible power solutions
• kW commercial models
• Carrier neutral facility
• Rapid deployment of custom build private suites
• Managed data centre infrastructure
• Flexible contract terms
• Intelligent integrated active server enclosures
• Environmental sensors included as standard
• Secure local and remote cabinet access
• Ideal for split site solutions and synchronous replication
• High Availability services