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Kcom’s flagship enterprise hosting facility is based at Global Switch, London. The facility is one of the best in the world and provides a range of services. These include data centre facilities, providing data storage and disaster recovery rooms, through to telecommunications environments ideal for voice and data transmission and co-location.

Our facility at Global Switch provides diverse systems to create an environment that remains permanently operational. Other building characteristics include raised floors capable of accepting high floor loadings and greater-than-average floor-to-ceiling heights.

Underpinning this is an N+1 design philosophy, which ensures the back-up of all key services, together with the provision of sophisticated security systems and dedicated 24x7x365 facilities management staff.

Reasons to choose our Global Switch hosting facility

• Perimeter & Building Security – 24 hour manned car park with barrier entry control and the accommodation is manned 24 x 7 x 365 with a security force
• Data Suite Security – includes CCTV with 24x7 recording delivered over IP to NOC monitors as well as 24x7 engineers for helpdesk and remote hands support
• Network resilience – includes a triangulated link from Telehouse to Global Switch and IX Europe Heathrow plus back-up LAN runs over separate switching infrastructure
• Fire Protection Plan – Datasuite provided with a pre-action fire protection system and an FM200 gas fire suppression system
• Failsafe power – The accommodation is fed from a London Electricity 11kV service with Two feeders giving 100% redundancy to the supply cable
• Generator Backup – Each UPS system is supported by a 2,500HP Caterpillar diesel engine that also generates power for essential loads such as cooling plant
• UPS Capacity – three rotary UPS systems to provide N+1 redundancy, each rated at 1,100kVA
• HVAC System – The Datasuite is serviced by 5 x 60kW Liebert-Hiross downflow air conditioning units that pressurise the raised floor areas. Conditioned air rises up through cutouts under the racks/cabinets and through floor grills in the circulation routes
• Leak Detection System – Any leak will activate this system and can be located by control panel graphics
• Building Management System – make management decisions about the environmental stability of the accommodation from any off-site location

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