With multiple large-scale datacenters under management in California, the Data Center Team leverages years of business management and datacenter operation experience to bring a variety of hosting solutions to clients large and small.

The datacenters have been accumulated over the past 10+ years through a combination of new construction, retrofits, and acquisitions. This unique cluster of facilities is located in the world-class San Diego Spectrum business park. Within minutes of all five major San Diego freeways, this central location makes the Data Center one of the only major Southern California Datacenters you can reach quickly even during rush hour.

As the epicenter for Fiber and Telecom carriers in the city, the datacenter campus is home to 11 different Tier 1 Fiber carriers.

All of the datacenter facilities are built to Tier 3+ standards complete with redundant power and cooling paths, multiple generators, and each is able to sustain major system or electrical outages without service interruption.

Raised Floor Cooling Systems
With computer power density increasing on an almost daily basis, it is essential for datacenters to be properly equipped and educated in managing HVAC cooling systems and datacenter thermodynamics.

By far, the best known and most respected theories on HVAC management within a datacenter are based on Raised Floor Cooling systems being combined with Hot Row / Cold Row footprint layouts. The Data Center Team maintains full Raised Floor Systems throughout all datacenter environments.

Hot Row / Cold Row – An industry Standard for Data Center Cooling
All datacenters are designed to maintain ice cold intake temperatures on the Cold Rows where air is drawn into the hosting cabinet, while quickly evacuating the exhaust air that is vented into the Hot Rows. This planning and management of air flow and temperature are meant to extend the life of IT equipment and provide adequate cooling for high density computing configurations.

The Science Behind Data Center Cooling
All datacenters follow strict guidelines as set forth by industry leaders such as The Uptime Institute. Temperatures within the datacenters are kept at 68’ or below in Cold rows and humidity is kept at 45’ (+-5’) at all times.

Fire Supression
Water & Servers just don’t mix. That’s why the datacenters utilize advanced gas-based, 100% water-free fire suppression systems.

Sure they cost more, but our customers are worth it! In the datacenter business, half of the efforts go into planning for the unexpected. The Data Center Team would be remiss in spending millions on power redundancy, millions on Internet connectivity, and then taking the easy way out by thinking, “Oh, a fire will never happen in our datacenter, we can just put sprinklers in.”

The Data Center Team's advanced CO2 and FM200 Fire Suppression Systems ensure that no matter what happens, your data and your online presence is safe and secure.

The datacenters employ the VESDA very early warning fire detection system that utilizes a system of smoke and photo electric sensors located strategically throughout the campus both above and below the raise floor platform. Should an actual fire emergency occur, the CO2 and FM200 systems are designed to extinguish the fire by releasing suppressant into the Zone where the fire was detected.

Each facility is broken into multiple fire zones for added security and to shorten the time it takes to bring the facility back to 100% operational status. Since the fire suppression systems are fully gas-based, recovering from a fire emergency takes just minutes, as opposed to the days of clean up and catastrophic damage that can be caused by foam, powder, or WATER based systems.

The Network
The datacenters use an "Enterprise Network" that was designed from the ground up to support the ever growing need for speed! While lightning fast page loads and bandwidth on demand are some of the primary objectives, overall redundancy is the next big focus of the datacenter Network Managers.

These objectives are achieved in a number of ways:

Transit to the major carriers is routed using Border Gateway Protocol (BPG-4 ), a protocol that provides automated detection and redirection in the case of a transit carrier failure. Edge routers – those that connect directly to the transit carriers – are linked by multi-Gigabit, multi-paths that are wholly owned and operated by the Data Center Team. This provides facility-level redundancy for Internet transit, backed by both AC and DC power plants.

Distribution redundancy is achieved by multi-facility non-active fiberoptic links to the transit routing infrastructure. No single fiber, transit carrier, or power failure can cause an interruption of service to the distribution routers. The distribution routers are the gateway routers for server connections; Hot Standby Routing Protocol (HSRP) provides redundancy for the gateway IP address to remove the distribution routers as single points of failure. Dedicated Virtual LAN’s are assigned to colocation clients to enhance network security and to allow customized Access Control Lists (ACL’s).

Network access consists of dual switch connections, 100Mbps or 1Gbps. The switch connections are provided from separate access switches that are connected to the distribution network by redundant trunk ports. Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) is used to ensure automatic failover in the case of a switch or uplink failure.

Carrier Neutrality
Six (6) different Tier 1 bandwidth providers call the San Diego datacenters home (AT&T, Level3, Cox, Cogent, MCI/Verizon, Telepacific). Each resides in their own facility and has connectivity that is directly connected to the datacenters. In addition to these six, the datacenters are also connected to 5 additional Carriers (Time Warner, XO, Broadwing, SBC (Legacy), & Williams (Legacy) ), bringing the grand total of Fiber carriers available to the datacenter customers to eleven (11).

This tremendous diversity enables the Data Center Team to provide world-class hosting services to any customer.

14Gbps & Growing
Network Connectivity – the best connectivity money can buy

You have heard people describe the Internet as “The Information Superhighway.” Well, if that is true, the San Diego datacenter network has some of the largest “on-ramps” available.

The Data Center Team has constructed an "Enterprise Network" which is connected to the world’s largest backbone providers ensuring responsive and reliable connectivity regardless of where your audience resides. The global reach available from the premium BGP bandwidth provides excellent connectivity for all hosting applications.