Our Data Center:

 

Facility:

Location

  • CaroNet

    900 Center Park Drive

    Suite A

    Charlotte, NC

Space and Environmentals

  • 25,000 square feet within 2 facilities.
  • Loading dock and secure equipment staging area 250 sqft.
  • Cement flooring (6" with water vapor barrier).
  • 7.5 inch steel reinforced tilt-up concrete walls.
  • Dual actuated dry-pipe fire suppression.
  • Redundant HVAC / air-cooled CRAC units.
  • Customizable space for specific requirements.

Security and Client Access

  • Exterior and interior closed-circuit motion sensitive video surveillance.
  • Electronic proximity keycard verification access.
  • Biometric palm scanner verification access.
  • 3 & 4 level tiered security.
  • Individually locked co-location cages and cabinets.
  • Passive infrared sensors above ceiling tiles.
  • Client access 24 x 7 x 365
  • On-site engineers 24 x 7 x 365

Power:

Generators

  • 2 Detroit Diesel three-phase power backup generators with a new primary Caterpillar 3516 1000kW being installed.

UPS

  • Circuit electricity supplied by UPS conditioned power.
  • Multiple UPS feeds utilizing latest technology PowerWare 160kVA, 225kVA, and 500kVA UPS clusters.

Utility

  • Separate transformer feeds (dedicated sources of power).

Network:

Overview

  • OverviewOur network is designed to be fully redundant and self healing from top to bottom. The only single possible point of failure is the connection to the physical server which limits any risk to a single rack or server. Each Foundry EI-4802CF access switch dual uplinks to a Foundry FESX-424 allowing for local layer 3 switching, policy assignment and egress DoS protection. The FESX provides redundant service by utilizing VSRP/VRRP ensuring that both layer 2 and layer 3 traffic has an alternate path in the event of a failure.
  • Each FESX connects via 10GbE to one of a paired Force10 E600's which act as layer 3 aggregation routers. In addition to the direct connections to the E600's, each FESX connects to its hot-spare through a dedicated 10GbE connection ensuring that in the event of a physical network cable/fiber cut the device does not need to degrade its master status and can continue passing traffic through its hot spare thus limiting the amount of actions taking place in the event of a minor failure.
  • The E600's interface with multiple Juniper M20's which peer with our bandwidth providers via multiple redundant OC-48 connections providing a maximum throughput of ~22Gbps. The E600's and the M20's communicate internally via iBGP allowing for extensive route mapping and traffic shaping helping us to provide you with the fastest connections and least latent path possible.

Internet Providers

  • Time Warner
  • Level 3
  • AT&T
  • TelCove

Internet Connectivity (Bandwidth)

  • 22 Gbps of symmetrical bandwidth.
  • 6 diverse entrances into the facility
  • Carrier-neutral environment.
  • One of the largest networks with the lowest cost of bandwidth of any colocation / hosting provider in the southeastern USA.

Carrier-Grade Equipment

  • Core routers: Juniper
  • Aggregation routers: Force10 TeraScale and Foundry BigIron
  • Distribution routers: Foundry FastIron

Network Diagram

 

Operations:

Data Center Engineers

  • Managed services
  • Numerous network, systems, and database certifications
  • Monitoring network/equipment performance 24 x 7 x 365

Financial & Operational Advantage

  • Secure and redundant facility with backup power
  • Space for clients to grow their business
  • Tier 1 internet connectivity from diverse providers
  • Certified engineers to assist if needed.