Cage Colocation
Cage Colocation Overview
1102 GRAND’s Cage colocation is for customers with a footprint ranging from 3 racks or cabinets needing approximately 100 – 120 square feet of space to larger customers with dozens of cabinets needing several hundred to more than a thousand square feet of private cage space. Colocation cages are located in a colocation room along with other cages each housing a different company’s equipment. Rather than investing a potentially significant amount of capital to build out a data center at their corporate office, technology executives instead decide to move equipment to 1102 GRAND in order to leverage the common infrastructure shared with other cage colocation customers. Cage colocation customers also can get a cage sized to meet not only today’s need but ensure contiguous space for expansion. In addition, unlike in a cabinet colocation room, customers have the ability to not only specify their racks or cabinets (even reuse racks already owned) but also roll in non-standard cabinets such as proprietary storage area network (SAN) cabinets.
1102 GRAND offers flexible terms which allow customers to grow or ramp into a larger space over time. That ensures you only pay for what you need now but have room for the future. While there are certainly limitations on what we can do, 1102 GRAND is looking for long term relationships with our tenants and are happy to tailor solutions to meet your company’s objectives to the best of our abilities. Cage colocation is especially attractive to companies that do not wish to maintain a data center and would rather focus on their core business but also would like to provide their own cabinets or racks and want a little more physical security.
Common Cage Colocation Customers at 1102 GRAND
1102 GRAND is home to a wide array of private cage colocation customers including: call centers, VoIP providers, information security, online media, voice/data carriers, internet service providers, news organizations, financial services, IT consulting companies, data storage providers, etc.
Cage Colocation Features
- Raised or non-raised floor depending on which colocation room
- Private cages ranging from 9’ x 12’ to 1000+ square feet custom sized footprints
- Key locks with additional security options available
- Customer or 1102 GRAND provided racks / cabinets
- Primary (“A” Feed) and redundant (“B” Feed) power
- Redundant floor level power distribution units (PDUs)
- Redundant uninterruptible power supplies (UPSs)
- Backup diesel generator support with automatic transfer switching
- Facility supplied by dual power feeds from Kansas City Power & Light (KCP&L) – consistently named most reliable electric utility in the region and was named most reliable in the nation (2008)
- Minimum of N+1 Liebert computer room air conditioning (CRACs)
- DuPont™ FM-200® or FE-25™ (ECARO-25™) clean agent waterless fire suppression system
- Multi-factor physical security to gain access to colocation room and customer cage
- Video surveillance including on and off-site storage for 30+ days
- Environmental monitoring system (temperature, humidity, water sensors, etc.)
- Preventive maintenance plans (CRACs, UPSs, generator, etc.)
- SAS70 compliant and HIPAA, ISO, and PCI ready data center environment
- Access to remote hands and eyes support
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