INAP’s Boston data center (BSN) is located at 70 Innerbelt Rd, Somerville, MA 02143. The data center is located near downtown Boston and accessible via mass transit with convenient access to highways, airports, and hotels. The data center is built in 2000 and has seismic zone 2A rating. The building is structural steel and reinforced concrete construction. The facility provides amenities like fully equipped office space, conference room, technical workspace and adjacent breakdown rooms, and full service lounge.
The data center offers a number of colocation options, including cabinets in half and full sizes, and custom private caged space. INAP uses Chatsworth Products’ 4-Post QuadraRack ServerFrame which provides a highly secure storage environment. The data center provides 71,000 square feet of total space, and 16 feet of clear ceiling height. Antistatic raised floor provides the efficient cooling and easy management of cabling system. The facility is regularly audited in accordance with SSAE 16 Type II requirements. The data center provides the state of the art security measures, including 24x7x365 security guards onsite, CCTV monitoring with archiving of data for 90 days, and intrusion detection system. The entrance to the data center floor is authenticated through the use of card key and biometric scan. The facility uses both wet pipe, and multi zone pre action dry pipe fire suppression system for the life safety. The facility has subfloor smoke detection and is remotely monitored.
Boston (BSN) is a reliable and fault tolerant N+1 power infrastructure with concurrently maintainable power system. The power to the data center is delivered through redundant power feeds by nStar utility. The entire critical infrastructure is protected by 4 x 750 kVA and 4 x 500 kVA Liebert parallel UPS system in N+1 redundancy on power failure. The secondary power is provided by 2 x 1.5 MW and 3 x 2MW Caterpillar diesel generators onsite. The DC battery bank provides 20 minutes of backup time on full load. The cooling and humidity in the data center is maintained by glycol cooling units in N+1 configuration. The hot aisle, cold aisle separation and passive cooling solutions maximize cooling efficiencies.
70 Innerbelt Rd is a carrier neutral facility with robust carrier neutral meet-me-room, including alternative transit and local access options. The data center offers 100% network uptime SLA. INAP’s multi-homed route optimized Performance IP provides links up to 10GB through multiple top tier carriers. 24x7x365 NOC staff provides the helpdesk and support services, and remote hands services.