Manchester Colocation
at Internet Facilitators Data Centre - IFL
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Connexions4London can provide cost effective
colocation services at Internet Facilitators Datacentre
- IFL, in Manchester. We currently have over 50
colocation racks across the country and can offer
extremely competitive pricing. You will be placed
in IFL2 in Manchester. This location is ideal
for companies wishing to locate in Manchester
or for those who are looking for a disaster recovery
site outside of docklands. As well as the taking
advantage of our reduced IFL pricing, you will
also be provided with additional services such
as our improved security procedure levels and
free network advise.
We have been Trading for over 5 years and have
an experienced in house team of staff who can
cater for your needs and will work to make your
experience run as smooth as possible. You will
be provided with a dedicated sales manager who
will ensure all your requirements are met. Companies
relying on our Network and Services include BBC,
Panasonic, NHS, O2, Sky and many more.
With our colocation we provide you direct connectivity
onto our industry leading network. We can provide
you with a selection of connectivity options.
These can be from simple GB transfer rates, up
to dual or quad feed Gigabit fibre connections.
We have the largest distributed network of any
Tier2 carrier at IFL. You can decide to take advantage
our multihomed transit or take a direct Tier 1
feed.
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Connectivity
Options |
| Multihomed
IP Transit |
Our most popular product is our multihomed
IP Transit. We provide you with the best of
all the connectivity we have around the globe
to give you 100% reliability and the fastest
connection physically possible. Our strength
which makes us different from many other transit
providers lies in our high redundancy and
low latency network. Our network is BGP4 multi
homed with
multiple providers which ensures much greater
reliability than getting connectivity from
just one provider.
C4L have carefully chosen the correct Tier
1 providers with strengths in each part of
the globe. We take away the headache and overhead
of the hardware and admin required to connect
to multiple providers.
Your feed includes NTT Verio, Level3, KPN,
AboveNet transit feeds. We also have agreements
with over 400 ISP's in the UK, Europe and
US to provide your equipment with the optimum
route for their traffic, removing unnecessary
hops. These include NTL, BT, Telewest, Nildram
and many more.
We currently provide Internet connectivity
to over 20,000 servers and machines in the
UK. We also have links into all the major
exchanges such as LIPEX, LONAP, LINX, MANAP,
AMX-IX, BN-IX, GL-IX, NL-IX etc... We also
include peering such as the BBCi
as standard.
Backed by our industry leading network, this
provides you with the optimum solution in
Internet Transit. All connections are a minimum
of 100Mbps burstable as standard. We provide
connections from 1Mbps up to 10Gbps connectivity.
We currently have over 5Gbps of capacity going
into Redbus and we ensure that our network
stays at below 20% capacity. |
| Direct Tier1 IP Transit |
We can provide direct connectivity to
the following Tier 1 carriers. These can
be provided from 1Mbps up to 1Gbps.
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Connexions4London
Network Information |
| Network Growth and Stability |
With over 20,000 machines and servers connected
by our network, Connexions4London have helped
1000’s of businesses to succeed. Our
network has grown organically through growth
of customer base, enabling us to remove the
risk and debt that many ISP’s have experienced.
Connexions4London now provides connectivity
directly to over 13 UK datacenters, making
it one of the UK’s largest direct neutral
transit and interconnect providers. |
| Hardware and Design |
We use dual vendor Cisco and Foundry Routers
and Switches throughout our network and Foundry
on our MetroRing to ensure the ultimate in
network performance. All our core network
locations have multiple routers and switches
to ensure hardware redundancy. All our switches
run at wire speed and our core routers are
capable of over 20Gbps capacity.
We utilise the Foundry MRP protocol which
provides sub 50ms failover time in the event
of fibre or equipment failure.
Our core routers are distributed across
multiple facilities and floors in the datacenters
to protect against facility downtime. Each
facility has a high power and security SLA.
Every facility also is connected by multiple
connections and is connected to or by our
London MetroRing.
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| Monitoring |
The Connexions 4 London network is monitored
24x7x365. As soon as a customer’s port
drops or something out of the norm happens
on the network our engineers are notified
immediately via email and SMS. We can instantly
see what that problem is and work to resolve
it.
If a customer’s port does drop or
starts recording errors, then they will
be notified as soon as possible to let them
know they have a problem with their connection.
We will then work with the customer to see
if it is a problem at their end or a problem
on the port. If it is their end, we can
then help them to get their equipment back
online.
We can offer an additional monitoring service
where the customer is notified immediately
via SMS of any problems on their port.
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| Support |
Carriers and customers are provided with
business hour customer support numbers and
out of hour 24x7x365 engineer support numbers
should a problem occur. Any support calls
are tracked online in our support ticketing
system and enabling Connexions4London to respond
effectively and efficiently. |
| Stats |
Each customer is provided with their own
login area, this enables them to see what
their bandwidth and usage patterns look like.
This is updated every 5 minutes and shows
the results for the last day, week, month
and year. It also shows the 95th percentile
billing rates.
Connexions4London also offer additional
services such as monitoring of site pages,
server scripts, CPU temperature, server
fan status or any custom monitoring to your
requirements.
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| Additional Redundancy |
You can also increase your redundancy by
taking our dual port service. This means you
can plug in 2 cables into 2 separate switches
on our network for the maximum redundancy. |
IFL is located on the Manchester University Campus.
This offers excellent colocation rates and high
specification building as below.
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IFL2 Facility Information |
| Electrical Supply |
Externally the facility is supplied
by diverse routes from a main electricity
board substation This power supply can provide
us with up to 1.3MW. Two transformers in the
Energy Centre allow us to provide n+1 capability.
A 2 MW Generator with a weeks supply of fuel
provides us with full capability to sustain
long power outages and UPS in n+1 mode will
provides us with power to sustain load until
the generator starts up as well as ensuring
a clean electrical supply. Each full rack
is provided with 5 AMPS. |
| Air Conditioning |
The chief difference between the new
and existing facility is that the air conditioning
in the new facility is provided by under
floor cooling by in room air handling units,
the air flow directed appropriately by grilles
in the floor. The capacity of the equipment
is such that a failure of one unit can be
handled by the other units
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| Fire Detection and Suppression |
A full VESDA system that provides early
detection of smoke is in place so that any
potential fire is detected before it can
develop. In the extremely unlikely event
that a fire does develop a FM200 fire suppression
system will be in place.
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| Security |
The new facility is based on Manchester Technology
Park which has guards on site 24 hrs a day
with offsite backup to deal with any major
event. CCTV cameras, motion detection and
a “key fob” access system will
ensure a high level of security with multiple
layers of defence.
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| Connectivity |
We have a minimum of 2 diverse routes coming
into each of the Manchester Facilities. Connected
directly to our industry leading network provides
excellent connectivity. |
Access & Contacts
If you are taking a quarter or full rack, you
will have full access to your equipment 24/7.
You are provided with your own security pass giving
you access to your equipment 24x7x365. The staff
will also visually check you are the person authorised
to the card. You can also authorise engineers
to have access to your equipment if required.
Should you ever have any problems, you are provided
with 24/7 numbers to call. You will also have
access to your login area and our support system.
If you would like to setup colocation or would
like to speak to a sales person to discuss your
requirements, please feel free to Call
FREE on 08000 470 481 for instant quote
or fill in the form below:
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