adapt's London City facility is based at the London Gateway of leading network provider Level 3 Communications. This facility provides direct connectivity to the World's largest IP backbone; for the best performing and lowest latency bandwidth.

Colocating your servers and services within a Level 3 data centre has the unique advantage of being on-net to a large percentage of the financial community and content and media providers.

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

adapt have been in partnership with Level 3 for over 10 years and are Level 3's European Premier Master Reseller.

Benefits

• 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

Mains Power

• Dual redundant 20MVA, 33kV dedicated underground mains feeds
• 5 x 3.8MVA 11kV diesel driven emergency power generators.
• Automatic start in less then 1 Minute to feed 100% of the facility
• Fuel storage for 24hour continuous operation at 100% load

UPS

• 3 separate systems of 5 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 & B distribution

DC

• 8000Amps -48VDC power system for telecom network equipment
• 4 Hour battery autonomy
• Dual bus systems with dual redundant A & B distribution

Environment

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

Physical

• Minimum floor to ceiling clearance: 2,570mm from top of raised floor
• 350mm-550mm raised floor height
• Raised floor loading 14kN/m²
• Structural floor slab 5kN/m²

Fire Strategy

• Very intelligent early warning (VIEW) 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 colocate rooms
• Intruder detection system on escape and riser doors
• CCTV monitoring and recording of all access points and circulation areas

Building Monitoring System (BMS)

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

Telecoms Infrastructure

• Facility is designed to accommodate standard rack/cabinets of 2,200mm nominal height
• Power distributed under floor, fibre and copper cabling distributed overhead (fibre within a managed containment system, copper within a heavy duty racking system)
• The building has two fibre access points
• Carrier connectivity: Level 3, COLT, BT,C&W, Interoute, Tiscali/NETS, 51 degrees,THUS and adapt

General Facilities

• Dedicated loading area
• Customer test room and storage area
• 2 goods lifts (maximum loads - 3,950kg & 4,400kg)

020 3009 3300 or email to find out more about adapt and Level 3 or watch the level 3 data centre video