Thanks, everyone....we are just as happy about our new baby as Shap is about his!!! ;)
For those that do not know what an RPP is, it stands for Remote Power Panel and in our DC it sits at the end of each row and it handles all of the power for that row.....
Here is what a whole bunch of RPP's looks like.....
I didn't even notice until this morning when I got the email that it was moved last night. Up and running and didn't even notice the migration, nice
WG
I see it every month and it still makes me whistle and go "wow....."
There's a running joke here...whenever someone mentions how many megawatts of power we have at the new center, someone goes (in their best Christopher Lloyd voice from "Back to the Future") - "one point twenty-one jiggawatts!!!!"
In this picture there are 4 high level engineers trying to explain to 1 South Georgia red neck how that Main Switch Gear works.....I will let you decide who is who ;)
I see it every month and it still makes me whistle and go "wow....."
There's a running joke here...whenever someone mentions how many megawatts of power we have at the new center, someone goes (in their best Christopher Lloyd voice from "Back to the Future") - "one point twenty-one jiggawatts!!!!"
-- Bill
is it enough to dim the lights in Atlanta when you turn it on ?
Of course, we will be offering our own legendary blend of NationalNet Premium Bandwidth to all customers but in addition, we installed 400Gbps of redundant fiber back to 56 Marietta Street (one of the most connected buildings in the SE) on which we will offer a basic cross connect so that customers can contract with any provider in that building for their own bandwidth and will only pay us a small cross connect fee.
The following is a PARTIAL list of providers (due to confidentiality, all providers cannot be listed):
5Linx
-Kancharla
AboveNet
Acredo Technologies
Adrun Media
AGL Networks
Alabama Super Computers
Alltel
American Fiber Systems
Amerimex Communications
Arnall Golden Gregory
AT Conference
Atlanta Broadband
Atlantic Nexus
Capital Internet
Capstone Systems
Cbeyond
Charter Communications, Inc.
Cloud Inc
Cogent Communications
Colo at 55
ColoCube
ColoCrossing
Core180
Cumulus Media
Deltacom
Digital Messaging Solutions
Digital Service Consultants
DoveTel Communications
-SyncGlobal
Education Networks of America
Elitecore Technologies
Emory University
Entex Networks
Epik Communications
FiberLight
FiberTower
Florida Institute of Technology
Florida State University
Georgia Institute of Technology
Georgia Public Web
Georgia State University
Global Crossing
Global NAPS Realty
Granite Services
Great Access
GRUCom
Hanna & Associates
Highwinds Network Group
Host.net
Hosted Ventures Corporation
Hunt Telecom
Hurricane Electric
HyperCube
i2 Telecom International
ICG Telecom Group
ICI Communications
I-Net Hosting
iNetworks Group
Infinite Conferencing
InLine
-Contact Network
Interclick, Inc.
InterMetro Communications
Internap Network Services
IP Communications
ITC DeltaCom
ITO
KDL Kentucky Data Link
Knology
Level 3 Communications
-Broadwing Communications
-Looking Glass
-Progress Telecom
-Telcove
-Wiltel Communications
LightCore
M1 Global Solutions
Manheim
Mercer University
Mid-Atlantic Broadband Cooperative
Millennium Medical Associates
My People
MZIMA Networks
National Net
Network IP
NextG Networks
Northwest Regional Data Center
One Ring Networks
Overgroup Consulting, LLC
Peer 1 Network
Progress Power
Qwest Communications
-OnFiber Communications
Rapid Link
Results Telecom
Roundbox Global
Sago Networks
Secure Computing
Security Associates International
Shelton-Johns Technology Group
Silgate
Skiplink
Smoothstone IP Communications
Sprint Communications
-Nextel Communications
Stealth Communications
Switch & Data
-PAIX
-LayerOne
Tactara
Tata Communications
Telecom Italia
Teleport Communications Atlanta
TeliaSonera
Teliax
The Information Age
The University of Tennessee
The Voice Peering Fabric
TNE Global Telecom
Tower Cloud
Transcom Enhanced Services
Trucall Solutions, Inc.
tw telecom
Unified Arts
University of Florida
University of West Florida
USCarrier
Vaya Solutions
Verizon
-MCI Metro Access
VIA net.works
Vigilant Futures
WBS Connect
Windstream Communications
WV Fiber
XO Communications
Xspedius Management
Alright, so that's who's in the building MMR. Now what providers has your company established bgp sessions with?
In this picture there are 4 high level engineers trying to explain to 1 South Georgia red neck how that Main Switch Gear works.....I will let you decide who is who ;)
Alright, so that's who's in the building MMR. Now what providers has your company established bgp sessions with?
Correct. As I said in my post, if a colo customer wants to purchase directly from one of the listed providers they can...or they can choose the NationalNet blended bandwidth which is the same bandwidth that we use for our Managed Hosting customers. That bandwidth literally changes all the time based on what we find is the best carriers for our network. We employ a staff of high level network engineers who are constantly interrogating our network to look for places that we can add or remove carriers.
But, so that you dont think I am avoiding your question, as of right this minute we have established BGP sessions with 36 carriers. Without trying to list them all, they range from the big guys like Level3, Telia, Google and Limelight to small providers that most people have never heard of. For example, we peer with one group that sells connectivity to colleges from coast to coast so that we are one-hop away from all of these college kids which make up a large part of our customers customers. This is the type of proprietary stuff that goes above and beyond servers and switches that we do for our customers every day.
This room will become the new NOC (Network Operations Center) but when this was taken it was "Start Up Command Central" where all of the vendors were starting up their equipment, testing, and retesting. After they were done, these guys spent the next 2 weeks doing "commissioning". For those that do not know, commissioning a data center basically means testing every single critical component in every conceivable position and make sure that the data center stays live and operational during virtually any eventuality.
This room will become the new NOC (Network Operations Center) but when this was taken it was "Start Up Command Central" where all of the vendors were starting up their equipment, testing, and retesting. After they were done, these guys spent the next 2 weeks doing "commissioning". For those that do not know, commissioning a data center basically means testing every single critical component in every conceivable position and make sure that the data center stays live and operational during virtually any eventuality.
--T
This is gonna make a great before and after pic
WG
Tony / Bill - you guys were telling me about this. Congrats on getting this done! In ten yours you will realize what a smart move building while saving money in a recession was for you!
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During commissioning....which you learned about above.....we use these little buggers called Load Banks. Basically it is nothing more than a giant hair dryer. It pulls power and produces heat to imitate what it will be like when the row is full of servers. We had these bad boys set up in the hot aisles for two straight weeks while we ran test after test after test.
And below you can see how we use the "hot aisle cold aisle" system as we set the laod banks up in every other row.
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