The Data Centres offer a flexible, technically superior and physically safe environment, built and operated to global best practice.  Customers benefit from unrestricted choice of network and service provider and an open market for interconnection to service providers and partners  within the Data Centre. The Data Centres are located on the fibre rings of the major licensed carriers in South Africa, including Telkom and Neotel, Broadband Infraco and Dark Fibre Africa all of which have fibre nodes within the building, presented in the “Meet Me” room.

The Data Centre facilities provide security, fire protection, cooling and cable management according to a N+1 redundancy policy, with power provided according to a 2N redundancy  policy allowing BCSgroup Telco to offer Service Level Agreements guaranteeing  99.999% availability. Skilled technical staff ensures

24x7 support.

5 Brewery Street, Isando, Johannesburg

Multiple phases to 3800m²

Environment

•  Multiple cooling zones with independent CRAC units, each with N+1 redundancy

•  Temperature controlled at 25°C +/- 4°C

•  Relative humidity 50% +/-5%

•  Hot aisle containment

•  Data centre positive pressure to ensure dust free environment

•  Independent humidity and temperature monitoring in all plenums

Power

•  Dual Municipal power feeds into the building providing 2 x 4MVA power to the data center

•  Diesel run time: we have enough diesel to run both generators for 36 hours @ 75% load and 27 hours @ 100% load

•  Power cascaded to multiple redundant distribution boards servicing multiple zones

•  Fully online UPSs ensuring frequency, voltage and surge stability

•  Power Distribution Unit technology to manage power down to socket level within cabinets, remote management to reduce the need to come to site

Security

•  Comprehensive perimeter and building security, with ‘zones within zones’ for multiple levels of security

•  Pre-authorization required for Data Centre access according to Access Policy

•  Visitor identity confirmed visually against picture on named user list, with additional biometric confirmation by fingerprint

•  Service areas physically separate from

Data Centre areas

•  Continuous video surveillance of all zones and cabinets

•  Comprehensive audit logs on all access