Velocity Colocation uses the Equinix Datacentre Facility in Sydney to help facilitate its needs.

The Equinix Datacentre facility has been constructed for Redundancy, Reliability, Stability & Performance, to create the best backbone for Velocity Servers to provide its customers with great service and a guaranteed 99.9% uptime SLA.

Construction

This one-story industrial warehouse structure has been converted/retrofitted into a state-of-the-art data center environment.
• Floor-to-ceiling height of 4.1 metres
• Uniform disbursed loading of 3,400 Kg per square metre
• Minimum door width of 1.6 metres
• 600 mm raised floor system
• Grounded anti-static floor tiles
• Staging and storage facility Power
• Redundant power supplied by local utility
• 6000KVA total facility power
• 750 watts power per square metre in technical areas
• Dual, redundant/diverse A+B PDUs
• 2000KVA UPS system - day 1, 3000KVA ultimate in N+1 configuration
• Dedicated clean earth system
• 4500KVAgenerator system under N+1 configuration

Environmental

• Air-cooled chilled-water and cooling tower system designed to cool 750 watts per square metre to 22° Celsius (71.6° Fahrenheit) ± 3°
• Humidity controlled to 50% ± 20%
• N+1 per zone CRAC system
• Laser-based Very Early Smoke Detection Apparatus (VESDA)
• Double interlock preaction sprinkler system

Cabling

• Overhead proprietary fibre guide system
• Overhead cable management system multi-tier ladder rack
• CAT 5e UTP, fibre (MultiMode and Single Mode) and coaxial cable connections
• DSX-1 cross-connect system provides for T1, ISDN- PRI connectivity
• RJ-11, RJ-45, RJ-48, BNC and SC physical interfaces standard

Security

• 24 x 7 x 365 security and CCTV surveillance (30 days of video recording)
• Biometric hand readers plus PIN code security
• Equinix issued photo IDs required for access to data centers
• Physical access control lists manage ingress and egress