GoGrid's San Francisco data center was built by WorldCom in 2000. The building also houses "super-nodes" for Verizon and AT&T local phone service in San Francisco, so it is considered an "essential" facility because 911 calls are routed here. We share generators, power, cooling, and fire suppression infrastructure with Verizon, including dual 2 Megawatt generators that support the critical power requirements and operations of the building.
The highlights:
GoGrid's Network Operations Center (NOC) is built right in the center of our data center floor, and is staffed 24/7/365 by certified systems administrators and network engineers. The 21 screens that make up our NOC monitor everything from network traffic and performance to power, temperature and security systems to services, applications, known vulnerabilities and RAID array status on customer servers.
Our data center is located in the San Francisco Telecom Center, conveniently located just south of San Francisco's Financial District. This 100% occupied telecom building also houses AT&T and MCI super nodes. The building was originally built in 1924 as a Marine Corps Depot for heavy equipment, so the five story structure is built of extra-thick, reinforced cast-in-place concrete. The building was seismically retrofitted in 1999 to convert the existing warehouse into a Telecom Center in accordance with San Francisco's Uniform Building Code, and then retrofitted a second time to exceed those standards by tenants AT&T and MCI in accordance with their stringent telecom carrier standards.
Our state-of-the-art fire suppression has three levels of protection. Halon fire extinguishers are located throughout the data center. We also have a two stage TotalPac double interlocked dry-pipe preaction system, with tightly defined zones to isolate and extinguish any fires without affecting surrounding areas. This system must detect both smoke and heat to be triggered. The data center is protected by a grid of 200 sensors on the ceiling and 200 under the raised floor plus "VESDA" AnaLaser-brand laser smoke sensors that are 10,000 times more sensitive than conventional smoke detectors and capable of detecting incipient smoldering. The system is monitored 24 x 7 on-site and off-site by both GoGrid and MCI NOCs.
The San Francisco Telecom Center where our data center is located maintains the highest possible standards for physical security. This facility is home to only three tenants, MCI, AT&T and GoGrid, and is equipped with state-of-the-art video and audio monitoring equipment and 24 x 7 on-site guards. All people entering the building are required to register with the security office and leave a valid ID while in the building. Those not on the access list are not allowed into the building without an escort. We check in visitors a second time prior to entry into our data center on the second floor. The GoGrid NOC is staffed 24 x 365 and is afforded a direct line-of-site view into the data center.
GoGrid has tremendous cooling infrastructure, with dual redundant chilled water supply loops and multiple Liebert air conditioning units pumping cold air into the pressurized raised floor of our data center. Chilled water is provided by the roof cooling towers, which also provide chilled water for MCI’s critical systems. Additional chilled water supply and return valves are already plumbed every thirty feet along the perimeter of our data center, allowing for rapid installation of additional Liebert units should increased cooling capacity be required.
Our data center power is fed by conditioned UPS (uninterruptible power supply) electricity, with redundant feeds from dual 2 Megawatt generators that also support critical MCI phone switches. One generator can power the entire building for several days time, and there is 20,000 gallons of reserve diesel fuel on site. These generators are tested monthly stringent protocols, and every third month the power is disconnected from the two utility feeds to ensure proper generator operation.
GoGrid operates its own screaming-fast network™, featuring multi-homed bandwidth with connections to over 40 networks. We route traffic over major Tier 1 Internet backbones such as UUNet, Level 3, NTT, AboveNet and PAIX, with no low-quality bandwidth and plenty of network capacity for maximum reliability and scalability.
GoGrid's Ashburn, VA data center is managed by Equinix, a premier provider of global datacenter services. It was built in 2008 and features a state-of-the-art power and cooling infastructure, unrivaled physical security, and network-rich connectivity. Learn more about Equinix datacenters.
The Highlights
Equinix IBX centers are specifically designed to provide a robust power infrastructure with the highest level of reliability. The datacenters provide a minimum N+1 redundancy for every power system, delivering the highest levels of uptime availability.
As demand for power and cooling continues to increase, Equinix’s stateof- the-art Heating/Ventilation/Air Conditioning (HVAC) system is a key feature of the the datacenter.
All areas of the center are monitored and recorded using CCTV, and all access points are controlled. The datacenter is staffed with 24-hour security officers to augment physical security features, providing the utmost protection of your mission-critical Internet infrastructure.
Cutting-edge fire detection and suppression systems, which limit the potential for damage in the event of a fire.
The building is constructed above sea-level with no basement, and includes additional flood control features to ensure that equipment damnage is minimized or prevented in the unlikely event of a flood.
GoGrid operates its own screaming-fast networkTM, featuring multi-homed bandwidth with connections to over 40 networks. We route traffic over major Tier 1 Internet backbones such as Level 3, and AboveNet with no low-quality bandwidth and plenty of network capacity for maximum reliability and scalability.
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