Facility
Our servers are currently housed in the Atlanta NAP datacenter located in the historic "West End" of Atlanta, Georgia. The Atlanta NAP is strategically located 5 miles from the heart of downtown, insulating it from events that could affect the city in a disaster situation. This world-class datacenter was built out of a state of the art retrofitted A&P meat freezer warehouse. The facility is built rock solid with massive steel beam frame and rebar reinforced 4-inch poured concrete roofs. The exterior is well-maintained and solid brick on block construction.

Network - Features 99.99% Network Reliability!
Currently 5 or more Tier 1 backbone providers service the datacenter at any given time, and are publicly peered with 12 providers including Earthlink. The current network consists of Gigabit links to Abovenet, XO, PCC-BTN, Telia, Level 3 and the Atlanta Internet Exchange public peering point.

Connectivity
Sitting on one of AGL’s main fiber backbones, the Atlanta NAP operates a metro Ethernet ring based on Extreme Networks 10 Gig technology with Sonet like EAPS implementation for sub 50 ms reroute times utilizing Ethernet for efficient and affordable equipment connectivity. We have collocation in Telx at 56 Marietta and Switch and Data at 56 Marietta and are able to offer you 100 mb and Gigabit Ethernet metro cross connects to any one of the more than 100 carriers located in the Telx building. The ring is currently lit at 10 gig. This allows full burstabilty to ensure your customers will reach your website even in times of peak traffic. Your site will not see bottlenecks due to small pipes.

Power
The Atlanta NAP is one of the few facilities able to support even your most power dense applications. Power is dual fed from the grid and protected though a redundant paralleled MGE EPS 6000 UPS system, configured with an additional full wrap-around bypass for extra redundancy (they are able to take the system offline for any type of internal maintenance without dropping power to the facility). The UPS system is backed up by a state of the art parallel generator system with multiple generators running in N+1 format. These are computer controlled and automated. The generators have 150 gallon day tanks fed from redundant pumps from 12,000 gallon reserve tanks. The system is powered by state of the art Cummins turbocharged generators and digital fuel management system by Simplex and Veeder-Root.

Security
Security starts from the moment you enter the building with 10-foot high razor wire fences surrounding the 4-acre property, all of which is covered by security lights and cameras. All footage from the cameras is on a specially built security server with raid10 for redundancy. Entering the main gate requires keycard access or to be buzzed in by the onsite security guards and happens through an electric gate for customer’s convenience. The front door is again protected by a key card reader. After entering the gate, there are 3 locked/key-carded doors protecting the datacenter and a biometric hand scanner authentication. Once inside the datacenter itself, customer’s assets are protected by locked secure cabinets or cages. All assets entering or being removed from the building are logged by an onsite security guard. The guard service is managed by a duly sworn armed police officer with arrest powers.

Building Management
The Atlanta NAP is monitored at over 450 points by a state of the art digital building management system. Staff can login securely from any location and check on all systems. The datacenter floor is equipped with temperature sensors in strategic locations that constantly monitor conditions in the facility and make adjustments. Alarms and out of tolerance conditions will set off an e-mail alert directly to management’s PDA's. The system controls water flow though pump speeds and air flow to the cooling tower through fan speeds. This saves energy and ensures that the system is operating at its peak performance 24x7. The system also monitors and logs all electrical activity within the facility and sends notifications of events.

Cooling System
The Atlanta NAP currently has 1000 tons of cooling piped into its 50,000 sq. foot datacenter. With pre-planned capacity of over 2000 tons, cooling will never be an issue. Each bank of cooling towers utilizes state of the art energy management technology. As with all core systems, the cooling towers are N+1, fed by redundant N+1 pumps. The Atlanta NAP also has a 30,000-gallon reserve water tank in case the city water supply ever fails.

Fire Protection
The Atlanta NAP uses a state of the art dual interlock dry pipe fire suppression system. High-tech smoke detectors signal the pipes to switch from compressed air (so Atlanta NAP staff are instantly alerted of leaks) to water. Then if a sprinkler head is set off by an actual fire, water is deployed to the affected zone only. The system is monitored through the building management system. The floors are all equipped with floor drains on 20 foot centers that drain the building in case of any water.