Data Centre & Network
Spectrum House Overview
All of our equipment is based in Spectrum House, a purpose built 14,000ft² facility conveniently located in the Thames 'Silicon Valley' in Maidenhead, Berkshire, United Kingdom.
Spectrum House provides us with redundant cooling, redundant power, fire supression systems, security and high quality redundant connectivity for our hardware.
We have multiple full 42U racks within Spectrum House, housing all of our:
- Servers
- PDUs (Power Distribution Units)
- KVMs (KVM Over IP Units)
- Switching Equipment
Network Overview
We use the high quality Rapidswitch network (AS29131). The Rapidswitch network is an all Cisco powered BGP4 network, and currently consists of over 98,000mbit/s of external connectivity. In addition to multiple Tier-1 carriers, the network terminates in London, Maidenhead, Nottingham, Leicester and Glasgow providing excellent low latency bandwidth throughout the UK.
Carriers
- tinet (Formerly Tiscali)
- TeliaSonera
- Teleglobe
- LINX
- LonAP
- + More than 200 peering sessions
Core Hardware
- Cisco VS-1440 Virtual Switching System (VSS Cluster)
- 2x Cisco Catalyst 6500 series Routers in high-availability cluster
- Tertiary Cisco 6500 series router on standby
- 98,000mbits external connectivity (At time of writing)
- Diverse fibre for Tier-1 uplinks to the Core
Edge Hardware (Per Rack)
- Cisco Catalyst 3750 series Switch
- Multiple GigE uplinks onto Core Routers
- Expansion for upto 4,000mbit/s connectivity per rack
- 100Mbit (Full Duplex) connectivity per Server
Speed Test / Test IP
- Speed Test: http://95.154.246.177/100mb.bin
- Test IP: 95.154.246.2
