INAP’s New York data center (NYM008) is located at 76 9th Avenue, New York, NY 10001. The data center is located in one of the premier carrier hotels in New York. The facility has convenient access to airports, highways, and transit. The data center is built in 1999 and has seismic zone 4 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 75,000 square feet of colocation space, and 14 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 through 80 x indoor cameras and 9x outdoor cameras 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 multi zone pre action dry pipe fire suppression system with VESDA control for the life safety. The facility has subfloor smoke detection and is remotely monitored.
New York (NYM008) is a reliable and fault tolerant N+3 power infrastructure with concurrently maintainable power system. The facility is efficient energy design and providing efficient working environment by consuming fewer fossil fuels, reducing greenhouse emissions, minimizing the impact on land. The power to the data center is delivered through redundant power feeds by Con Edison utility. The entire critical infrastructure is protected by 3 x 750 kVA Liebert UPS system and 6 x 750 kVA PowerWare UPS system in N+3 redundancy on power failure. The secondary power is provided by 4 x 2MW Cummins diesel generators onsite. The data center provides single and three-phase AC and 48V DC power to the customers’ equipment. The DC battery bank provides 12 minutes of backup time on full load, and power density of 12 kW per rack. The cooling and humidity in the data center is maintained by 2×800 tons glycol cooling units in N+1 configuration. The hot aisle, cold aisle separation and passive cooling solutions maximize cooling efficiencies.
111 8th Avenue 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.