Equinix’s El Segundo data center (LA4) is located at 445 North Douglas Street, El Segundo, CA 90245. The data center is a single story tilt up concrete steel structure, and a seismic zone 4 design building. The data center building is fully compliant with building code compliance standards. The data center is 3 miles from the Los Angeles International Airport, 30 miles from the Burbank airport, 19 miles from Long Beach airport, 39 miles from John Wayne airport, and 56 miles from the Ontario airport. The facility also has building parking available.
The 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 certified facility. The Equinix data center provides 177,469 square feet of total space, including 62,159 square feet of colocation space, and flex space of 11,800 square feet. The colocation floor is able to bear a floor load of 250 lbs. per square foot. The data center has multilevel security including CCTV & recorders, motion detection, and 24 x 7 security guards. All doors, including cages, are secured with biometric hand geometry readers, and closed cabinets with kinetic & key locks.
The Equinix El Segundo data center has a N+1 power infrastructure, and offers 99.999% SLA on power. The data center is LEED silver design, and a Energy Star certified facility. The data center provides electrical capacity of 4 kVA per cabinet. The data center has a single utility feed, and six x 6 MVA power transformers. The data center can provide AC or DC power to customer’s equipment. The facility has 16 kV of utility voltage. Immediate power failure is protected by block redundant 9.0 MW UPS power in N+1 configuration. The standby power is provided by 7 x 2,500 kW diesel generators in N+1 configuration. The cooling and humidity in the data center is controlled by 5 x 750 tons water-cooled centrifugal chillers, and 5 x 750 cooling plants in N+1 configuration. The facility is served with cooling of 4 kW per cabinet (13,640 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. The data center has an overhead proprietary cable tray system with 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 has conduit access for network service providers for installing bulk fiber. 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.