Data Centre

The core to our operations, our data centre has been designed and developed around the principle of energy efficiency and high density racking. With this approach we have done away with traditional raised flooring and conventional air delivery / hot-cold aisle seperation and brought in designs that see a unique deployment in a next generation data centre build.

Incorporating custom fitted racks our data centre delivers conditioned air throughout the whole room via built in room ducting. Hot return air from equipment is controlled and delivered back to be processed (heat removal via Liebert A/C or dispelled outdoors). Air intake (dependant on environmental conditions such as humitidy, temperature and air quality) is made up from returned air (closed loop) or fresh outdoor air. Having a design incorporating external processing of data centre air delivery enables our systems to run completely on fresh filtered air, drastically reducing electrical load far greater than can be achieved with alternative approaches (eg. Solar Panel)

Read more about our data centre's features below:

Facility :

Highly secure development and data services
24/7 availability with escorted and remote after hours access

Racks :

42RU (600mm W x 900mm D) customised deployed racking
Perforated rack fronts with managed heat dispersion
High Density power available up to 45A per rack
Configurable Power feeds per rack ( A+B+C )

Quality rack fit-out supporting all major hardware vendor deployments giving the option of configurability to support your equipment requirements.

Power :

Data Centre located on Perth CBD Hospital power grid
UPS filtered power with option of N+1 redundancy
Onsite Diesel Generater with managed support contract

With the above combination of redundancy and site location power availability is extremely high.

Cooling :

Dedicated Cooling Plant room
Managed Air Conditioning with N+1 redundancy, additional direct air intake and exhaust heat management systems

The added redundancy built into keeping operations cool with the fail safe of direct-air / exhaust heat management ensures the integrity of your equipment with even the most critical failure.

Security and Protection :

24/7 monitored via NOC and third party Security
Recorded CCTV
Swipe card access throughout
Laser VESDA (Very Early Smoke Detection Apparatus) along with traditional smoke detector coverage
FM200 Gas Suppression in Data Centre**
Environmental Monitoring System
Located within 2km of Police, Fire and Security dispatch

With both pro-active and re-active measures our combined monitoring ensures upmost security throughout with low response time to address issues.

Connectivity :

Connectivity with AMCOM, WAIA ( Vocus / AAPT ), NextGen and Exetel
WAIX peering and connectivity
Network uplinks to the core switches are a minimum of 100Mbit.

DCwest has partnered with multiple industry data providers to deliver cost effective data service solutions with the availability of uplifting further transit from peers in QV1 or current POPs at DC.

** Final commission of FM200 scheduled March 2012