Equinix’s Seattle data center (SE2) is located at 2001 Sixth Ave, The Westin Building, Suite 1202, Seattle, WA 98121. The data center is in thirty four story building, glass & concrete face with steel concrete structure, fully sprinklered construction type, flood plain zone X, and seismic category 2B design building. The data center building is fully complied with building code compliance standards. The data center is 14 miles from Seattle Tacoma international airport. The facility 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 SSAE 16 SOC I Type II certified facility. The data center provides 43,610 square feet of total space, including 35,685 square feet of colocation space. The colocation floor is designed for the load capacity of 100 lbs. per square feet. 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 data center has mantrap entry to access the data center resources. Pre action, double interlocked, dry pipe sprinkler system is installed in the data center for life safety.
Seattle SE2 data center is N+1 power infrastructure, and offer 99.999% SLA on power. The data center provides electrical capacity of 4.0 kVA per cabinet at 5th floor, 2.4 kVA per cabinet at 11/12/13 floor. The data center has four utility feed, and eight power transformers. The data center provides AC power, and DC power to customer’s equipment. The facility has 0.48 kV of utility voltage. The immediate power failure is protected by UPS system in N+1 configuration; 8 x 225 kVA parallel redundant at 5th floor, 6 x 225 kVA parallel redundant at 11th floor, 2 x 130 kVA parallel redundant at 12th floor, and 375 kVA Iso redundant at 13th floor. The standby power is provided by diesel generator in N configuration; 1 x 2,500 kW at 5th floor, 1 x 1,250 kW at 11th floor, 1 x 2,500 kW at 12th floor, and 1 x 750 kW at 13th floor. The cooling and humidity in the data center is controlled by 1,169 tons CRAC/DX split system air conditioning system in N+1 configuration. The facility is served with cooling of 4.0 kVA per cabinet at 5th floor (13,652 BTUH), 2.4 kVA per cabinet at 11/12/13 floor (8,191 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 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 provides Equinix Internet Exchange services. 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.