Network

Washington D.C. Data Center

Softlayer's Datacenter in Washington D.C.,DC is located in a private N+1 data center facility just 7 miles from Dulles airport in Chantilly, Virginia. The facility is also home to data centers belonging to AT&T and Verizon Business, and receives power from two redundant Dominion Virginia Power grids. It includes three on-site, 600-ton cooling towers, fully meeting N+1 cooling requirements.

• Capacity: more than 10,000 dedicated servers
• 2000 amps 480v Input Power
• 8 x 750Kva UPS Battery Backup Units
• 3 x 2-Megawatt Generators w/On-site Fuel Storage
• Redundant Liebert 30-ton HVAC Units
• FM-200 Fire Suppression System with VESDA
• Biometric Security System
• Digital Security Video Surveillance
• Public Network:
  • Comcast Peering - 10G
  • Equinix Peering - 10G
  • Global Crossing - 10G
  • Internap 1 - 10G
  • Internap 2 - 10G
  • Level3 - 10G
  • NTT America - 10G
  • Qwest - 10G
  • Telefonica Peering - 10G
  • Time Warner Peering - 10G

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Dallas Data Center

Softlayer's Datacenter in Dallas,TX is located inside the recognized Infomart telecom hotel, a private, Tier III, N+1 facility near downtown Dallas. Infomart is also home to data centers belonging to MCI, Level 3, Equinix, Verio, Switch & Data, Verizon, Telefonica and Via West. It sits on three redundant TXU electrical grids, delivering diverse power to each quadrant of the building, with five on-site 100-ton water chillers meeting N+1 cooling requirements.

• Capacity: more than 40,000 dedicated servers
• 6000 amps 480v Input Power
• 6 x 750Kva UPS Battery Backup Units
• 3 x 2000Kw Diesel Generator with On-site Fuel Storage
• Redundant Liebert 30-ton HVAC Units
• Pre-Action Dry Pipe Fire Suppression
• Proximity Security Badge Access
• Digital Security Video Surveillance
• Public Network:
  • Comcast Peering - 10G
  • Equinix Peering - 10G
  • Global Crossing - 10G
  • Internap 1 - 10G
  • Internap 2 - 10G
  • Level3 1 - 10G
  • Level3 2 - 10G
  • NTT America 1 - 10G
  • NTT America 2 - 10G
  • NTT America 3 - 10G
  • Qwest - 10G
  • Telefonica Peering - 10G
  • Time Warner Peering - 10G

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Seattle Data Center

Softlayer's Datacenter in Seattle,WA is located in a private N+1 data center facility outside the Seattle fault and liquefaction zones. The facility is designed and constructed to sustain a seismic event while maintaining business functions and boasts low latency through superior connections to Seattle's robust fiber optic loops, 55MW of existing electrical capacity, 45 on-site generators with .5-million gallons of on-site fuel storage, and a carrier vault system supported by more than 50 miles of embedded, secure conduits.

• Capacity: more than 10,000 dedicated servers
• 2000 amps 480v Input Power
• 4 x 500Kva UPS Battery Backup Units
• 3 x 2-Megawatt Generators w/On-site Fuel Storage
• Redundant Liebert 30-ton HVAC Units
• Pre-Action Dry Pipe Fire Suppression
• Proximity Security Badge Access
• Digital Security Video Surveillance
• Public Network:
  • Comcast Peering - 10G
  • Global Crossing - 10G
  • Internap 1 - 10G
  • Internap 2 - 10G
  • Level3 - 10G
  • NTT America - 10G
  • Qwest - 10G
  • SIX Peering - 10G

Click to download the 100MB Testfile

For more information about the Datacenters, please visit Softlayer.
For more information about the Servers we utilize, please visit our About us webpage.