Equinix’s Ashburn data center (DC11) is located at 21721 Filigree Court, Ashburn, VA 20147. The main entrance to DC 11 is through their DC 6 data center facility. The two story steel structure data center with exterior concrete panels, and seismic zone A designed building is fully compliant with building code compliance standards. The data center is 7 miles from Dulles international airport, 33 miles from Reagan Washington National airport (DCA), and 61 miles from Baltimore-Washington international airport. The facility has adjacent parking available.
The Ashburn Equinix data center offers half and full cabinet colocation, locked cabinets, caged space, and private suite colocation space. The data center is a SSAE 16 SOC I Type II audited facility. The data center provides 222,358 square feet of total space, including 42,824 square feet of colocation space, with 3,285 square feet of flex space. The colocation floor is able to bear a floor load of 175 lbs. per square foot on the second floor. The data center has multilevel security including CCTV & recorders, motion detection, 24 x 7 security guards, a perimeter fence with gated entry. All doors, including cages, are secured with biometric hand geometry readers, and closed cabinets with kinetic & key locks.
The Equinix Ashburn data center (DC11) has a N+1 power infrastructure, and offers 99.999% SLA on power. The facility is LEED silver design making data center an energy-efficient infrastructure. The Equinix data center provides electrical capacity of 4 & 5 kVA per cabinet. The data center has a single utility feed, and ten power transformers. The data center provides 34.5 kVAC power, and DC power to customer’s equipment. Immediate power failure is protected by redundant UPS’ in N+1 configuration. Standby power is provided by 10 x 2,000 kW diesel generators in N+1 configuration. The cooling and humidity in the data center is controlled by high-efficiency evaporative condensed rooftop units, with airside economizer in N+1 configuration. The facility is served with cooling of 5 kW per cabinet (17,065 BTUH), and offers 99.99% SLA on temperature & humidity.
The data center is a carrier neutral facility offering connectivity to multiple carriers and service providers. Because of the area’s strategic importance as the Eastern hub of traffic exchange to the United States, Equinix’s DC metro IBX centers are one of the largest Internet exchange points in the world. The data center has an overhead proprietary cable tray system with a multi-tier ladder rack. The data center offers cross connect services including single mode fiber, multi-mode fiber, Cat 5, Cat 6, Cat5(T1), and Cat3 (POTS), and provides 99.99% SLA on cross connect availability. The facility provides Equinix Metro Connect services, Equinix Internet Exchange, Equinix Carrier Ethernet Exchange, and Equinix Direct. IBX staff of engineers, technicians, and customers support specialists offer onsite technical and logistic support 24 x 7 x 365, and provide smart hands services.
