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AIS Lightwave (East) San Diego Collocation Specifications

American Internet Services' Lightwave San Diego collocation facility is located on 9305 Lightwave Avenue, situated in the San Diego Spectrum area of Claremont Mesa.

The site offers a mix of cabinet, cage and data suites, as well as roof rights for microwave links and other antennae systems. The San Diego collocation facility is fed from SDG&E with 600 amps at 12,000 Volts which is equal to 13 Megawatts.

The Lightwave San Diego collocation facility is located in the heart of the internet backbones in San Diego. The area is saturated with all fiber providers that are located in San Diego.

Lightwave San Diego Collocation Fiber Providers
  • AT&T
  • XO
  • Time Warner

This San Diego collocation facility is connected to the AIS network via redundant OC192s from two different vendors with diverse entry. Diverse fiber pathways accommodating Sonnet rings are provided by from the listed carriers. We operate a true carrier/optically neutral San Diego collocation facility with large (1500 sq. ft) Meet Me Room and fiber POP.

Many San Diego collocation companies these days claim to have the largest state of the art facilities but it is AIS that has the largest San Diego data center. When our San Diego collocation facility was built by General Dynamics, no expense was spared. 45 million in today's dollars was spent to build this 80,000 square foot San Diego data center. An additional 3 million has been invested in network infrastructure and upgrades. This San Diego collocation facility not only looks impressive but also has an uptime track record second to none.

Security
  • Camera with remote door release at facility entrance - only authorized personnel are allowed to enter San Diego collocation facility
  • Biometric palm scanners at man trap entrance
  • Card access control at all interior doors
  • 24/7/365 on-site security staff
  • 24/7/365 intrusion detection monitoring
  • Digital surveillance cameras with 30 days storage for all main areas in our San Diego collocation facility
  • All customer equipment is registered and can only be removed by authorized personnel
DC Power Systems
  • DC power available upon request
AC Power Systems
  • N+1 redundancy in all systems
  • 5 Teledyne 500KW Parallel redundant UPSs
  • Valve-Regulated Lead-Acid (VRLA) batteries providing a minimum of 15 minutes backup at full load
  • Redundant AC power available for POP, Meet me Room and San Diego collocation areas
  • 4000 amps of 480 Volt AC power (Transformers step down to 208/120 Volts for customer use)
Generator
  • Two 1.5 Megawatt redundant Caterpillar Generator sized to run the entire San Diego collocation facility at full load for a minimum of 48 hours without refueling, hot refuel capability
  • Dual Automatic Transfer breakers and bypass/isolation switches provide N+1 redundancy for dual source power capability
  • 24 x 7 maintenance contract
  • Electrical connections for roll-up generator and load banks
Environment
  • Full data-grade HVAC system with N+1 redundancy
  • Triple, redundant 500 ton Trane chillers with redundant pumps
  • 72 degree ambient air temperature (+/-2 degrees)
  • 45% humidity (+/-5%)
  • 600 tons of computer room air conditioning with expansion to 1000 tons
  • Fire Protection
  • Dry-pipe, pre-action double interlock fire suppression system
  • Both smoke and high temperature heat detectors
  • Zone specific discharge
  • Early warning VESDA fire detection systems
Monitoring
  • Metasys to monitor the San Diego collocation facility’ s Power, HVAC, Security, Fire, Leak Detection and Hydrogen Detection Systems
  • Network monitoring by NMS which monitors all network and customer connections
  • Systems is monitored on-site 24/7/365
Racks, Cabinets & Cages
  • 24"W x 33"D x 84"H locking colocation cabinets with 19" mounting rails
  • 24"W x 33"D x 105"H locking colocation cabinets with 19" mounting rails
  • 30"W x 33"D x 84"H locking colocation cabinets with 23" mounting rails
  • Quarter, third and half cabinets with 19" mounting rails
  • Open 19" and 23" racks in POP and Meet Me Room
  • 10' x 12' locking chain link cage space (120 square feet)
  • Custom cages built to customers specifications
  • Private San Diego collocation suites from 2,000 to 20,000 square feet available

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