CoActLive! Enterprise Wiki » Our Datacenter

Our datacenter facility is an enterprise grade, secure building located directly on the main Atlanta Internet Point of Presence with a documented historical reliability of 99.999%. The facility itself came online in 1999 and has never experienced a network or power blackout in it’s entire history.

Network Monitoring & Security

Redundant Cisco BGP routing and switching infrastructure with cold spares allowing for equipment failure with no interruption in service. 10 Gigabit Metro Ethernet ring for core routing.

State of the art Avaya ANS BGP management system optimizing the routes 7000 times per minute based on performance to ensure the highest performance routing.

Multiple third party carriers to to prevent a single point of failure. Dual OC-48 Internet backbone with Cisco Gigabit switch routers.

State of the art Network Operations Center to monitor and identify any potential threats to the network infrastructure with the ability to dispatch engineers to correct any potential issues before they become serious.

Data & Application Protection

Connected to the most reliable power grid in the state through quad vaults on 4 feeds - this grid was upgraded by the government to protect the main Atlanta hospital as critical services and was extensively upgraded for the Olympic Games in 1996.

8 22 ton systems providing consistent temperature and humidity
Redundant Liebert UPS, PDU’s and static transfer switches
72+ hour fuel supply

Power & Environment Protection

8 22 ton systems providing consistent temperature and humidity
Redundant Liebert UPS, PDU’s and static transfer switches
72+ hour fuel supply
Regular systems testing
2 1.5 megawatt and 800 KVA generators with in ground 5000 gallon fuel tanks to ensure power if there is an outage.

Facility Security

State-of-the-art datacenter ID system and security including video surveillance and recording. All entrances to the Datacenter include biometric scanning in combination with key card access.

On-site personnel 24×7
Electronic and physical security
Video surveillance
Man-trap entry, badge-only access

Fire Suppression

Active monitoring with VESDA early smoke detection
FM-200 fire suppression system

Network Monitors

Our network is continuously monitored by sophisticated detection software and hardware that performs diagnostics in real time. All major Internet backbones are self healing via our RouteScience equipment.

Global Crossing - GigE (1000Mbit)