NEW DATA CENTER PLANS

02/28/2006 00:00

MDS is happy to announce that we will be opening a second datacenter facility.
The new facility is approximately 63,000 square feet and the building construction is the same as our current facility, it is rated to withstand a direct hit from a Category 5 hurricane. Other notable features include N+1 redundancy on all key infrastructure. This means that we have 3 UPS systems (total of 1.5MW), 3 generators (total of 3.6MW), and redundant power utility feeds from FPL. The generators are supplied by 20,000 gallons of fuel which can run the entire facility at full load for two weeks.
The building has fiber from many fiber providers, including BellSouth, AT&T, Sprint, MCI (UUNet), and TelCove. We are negotiating with other fiber providers to bring more fiber into the facility. We currently have multiple OC-192 fiber capacity coming into the datacenter.
As for bandwidth, we are directly connected to the NAP of the Americas in Miami. This allows us to choose bandwidth from many providers.
To handle all of this fiber connectivity and bandwidth, we have chosen two network equipment providers, Cisco and Force10. Two fully redundant Cisco GSR routers and two fully redundant Force10 routers will make up the edge and core of our network. The Cisco equipment gives us high optical density, and the Force10 equipment gives us a full Terabit core, which is necessary for 10 Gigabit Ethernet. All servers and collocation facilities will be connected directly to a multiple gigabit backbone.
After the new facility is online and during the course of the year, we will be bringing out some new dedicated products to fill out our product lines. Some of these are:
- A hosted backup solution
- Bare metal backup protection
- Load balanced server pairs
- Firewall and security services
- Managed services
Over the next two months, as we prepare the new facility, I will be posting more information shortly. 

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