USA Data Center,  USA

Hurricane Electric's Datacenter provides the ideal environment to keep your servers up 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The facility has been engineered with HVAC environmental systems, digital surveillance, stringent security and conditioned uninterruptible power. The Data Center is monitored and staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with knowledgeable technical support engineers. Raised floors, individually locked cabinets, back-up power, custom designed video surveillance of every cabinet, and onsite security measures assures that the servers will be safe and run optimally.


Datacenter Security
The HE Data Center is located in Northern California; it is a secure, controlled access facility. The facility is secured with Card Key Access System, 24-hour Video Monitoring System with cameras installed in key locations to cover all accessible data center floor space. In addition to the floor access security, all server hardware is housed in locked steel cabinets with blinded louvered doors.

Robust Network Hurricane Electric's national backbone is ranked among the top in the nation. The data center is connected at major internet peering points (MAE-West, MAE-East, PAIX, AADS, NYIIX) with redundant connections ranging from OC-3 (155 Mb/s) to GigE (1000 Mb/s). The Datacenter has a Gigabit Ethernet Primary Backbone, each server is connected to the backbone via a switched 10/100 Ethernet port. The data center's switched network utilizes the Border Gateway Protocol Version 4 (BGP4) over Cisco 12000 series GSR routers for maximum redundancy.

HVAC System
The entire Data Center has 12 inch raised flooring with in-floor routed Air Conditioning and Power. Each server cabinet has cooling vents on the floor and a air circulating fan on top of each cabinet to pull the cool air through the cabinet. The HVAC system is redundant with zone based temperature monitoring and an industrial grade filtration system.

Conditioned Power
The power system in the Data Center provides industrial grade conditioned power, designed to run the entire data center without interruption. The power system is backed by an industrial grade UPS system, and also a 2 Megawatt Industrial Diesel Generator as secondary power backup.