In May, RUVDS opened a new containment area in Germany, in the country's largest financial and telecommunications city, Frankfurt. The highly reliable Telehouse Frankfurt data center is one of the data centers of the European company Telehouse (headquartered in London), which in turn is a subsidiary of the global Japanese telecommunications corporation .
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The Telehouse Frankfurt system is connected to the second largest Internet Exchange Point in Europe β , which provides premium services and is the world's leading interconnection platform, delivering peak traffic of over six terabits per second. Collaboration with several hundred international Internet service providers makes it an ideal collaboration tool for fast-growing multinational corporations, small and medium-sized enterprises that need a reliable access point in the most secure place near Europe's largest economic center. General official information about Telehouse Frankfurt can be found in .
Security
As a theater begins with a hanger, so a data center begins with a "house adjoining" area. Everything here is serious and concise in German. The facility is surrounded by a seemingly insignificant fence, which is however equipped with a modern detection system. Video surveillance is carried out not only in the courtyard, but also outside the territories, and in the premises of the data center with constant recording and storage of records for three months.
Security systems use an on-site access authorization program, a biometric access control system (ACS), a XNUMX-hour control center with a XNUMX-hour security staff.
Infrastructure
Telehouse occupies a plot of 67 m000, of which 2 m25 is available fully equipped colocation space. It is a multi-tier data center to meet a wide range of customer requirements. In addition to providing colocation services with racks, cages and separate server rooms, it allows you to build a dedicated data center for customers on its territory. That is, Telehouse itself generally corresponds to the TIER 000 level of reliability, but additionally has available (the company constantly focuses on this adjective, which abounds in its information materials) local areas for the construction of private data centers corresponding to the TIER 2 level.
Telehouse Frankfurt operates Frankfurt's largest data center campus, the city's telecommunications hub with a large number of carriers and providers. The campus includes 3 data centers that have access to DE-CIX, the leading Internet exchange in Central and Eastern Europe. In November 2013, the Telehouse Frankfurt data center became a partner , offering customers direct access to their platform, making Telehouse Frankfurt the best choice for international carriers looking to integrate data centers into their communications network. Which is what we used. The server hardware is installed in a 19" individually enclosed rack cabinet. Dedicated personal space (up to 900 m2) is enclosed in cages built to individual customer specifications.
The DE-CIX Apollon platform in Frankfurt is the first of its kind. It uses ADVA FSP 3000 and Infinera CloudExpress 2 optical networks for the optical backbone, and Nokia's next generation (formerly Alcatel-Lucent) service routers for the 7950 XRS and 7750 SR series IP network. The optical backbone has a total capacity of 48 terabits per second in a mesh topology and delivers up to 8 terabits per second per fiber. DE-CIX Apollon provides three to one redundancy: all four cores are working, one is just for redundancy. You can read more about the system in .
DE-CIX is proud to be the first IX in history to introduce a fully automated patch robot: the Patchy McPatchbot. This Optical Distribution Frame (ODF) replaces the standard rack and patch panel and dramatically improves customer experience. The port can now be deployed or upgraded within minutes without the need for physical intervention from a technician. In 2018 at the Frankfurt campus, more than 450 clients were transferred from one data center to another during real-time operation. At the same time, about 15 kilometers of fiber-optic cable were laid. More than 40% of all data traffic on the world's leading Internet exchange was transferred without failure.
You can watch Patchy McPatchbot in this video:
Connectivity:
- Carrier independent, giving customers the freedom to choose connectivity with access to several major local and international network operators.
- Optimal connection to the German Internet Exchange hub (DE-CIX).
- Direct connection to the fiber optic ring in Frankfurt.
With 300 workstations for backing up business operations, the Business Continuity Center offers office space and warehouses of various sizes for rent, all integrated into Telehouse's overall security system.
Telehouse customers in Frankfurt can benefit from KDDI's technology expertise in the form of global information and communication technology (ICT) consulting services.
Operability, reliability and about the power supply system
Telehouse uses two independent power supplies that are connected to two separate substations. Combined with its own UPS systems and emergency generators, Telehouse delivers the highest levels of uptime and reliability.
Redundant power supplies are arranged according to the N + 1 UPS scheme with a backup battery. Uninterrupted emergency power up to 21 MVA. Power distribution is carried out according to customer requirements with separate measurements. In the event of a power outage, the data center can remain fully operational for up to three days via diesel generators.
βEnvironment and air conditioning
- Redundant air conditioning and refrigeration systems at N+1
- The room temperature is maintained at 24Β°C
- The temperature in data centers is controlled by sensors
- Relative humidity 50% to 15%
- Floor bearing capacity from 5 to 15 kN/m2
- Raised floor 300-700 mm
βFire detection and suppression
- Visual/thermal fire alarm on two levels (ceiling and raised floor)
- Active inergenic fire extinguishing systems
- Option: early fire detection (RAS system)
- Choice between rooms with active or passive fire protection
βCertificates
Telehouse Frankfurt complies with the Tier 3 classification with additional tiered highlighted areas. Certified to IDW PS951 (German equivalent of Statement of Auditing Standards (SAS) No. 70) and ISO 27001:2005 (Information Security Management), ISO 50001, ISO 9001, ISAE3402, PCI-DSS.
The new RUVDS platform is designed to provide customers with rental services for VPS / VDS virtual servers, and services in Frankfurt are available to the company's customers at the same low prices. They are focused primarily on the corporate segment: government agencies, banks, stock market players. RUVDS also has its own TIER III level data center in Korolyov (Moscow region), containment areas in Interxion data centers in Zurich (Switzerland), Equinix LD8 in London (UK), and MMTS-9 in Moscow (Russia), Linxdatacenter in St. Petersburg (Russia), IT-Park in Kazan (Russia), Data Center Yekaterinburg (Russia). All containment areas meet the reliability level of at least TIER III, and high speed and flexible tariff plans make the service attractive to customers.
Source: habr.com