BOTTOM LINE:
99.995% Uptime design will not go down for any reason including maintenance or replacement of any part or whole system.
TIER III REQUIREMENTS:
- Constructed to allow for “Planned Maintenance” known as “Concurrently Maintainable”.
- Does not address unplanned Failures of critical equipment or systems.
- Some Tier III’s try to Masquerade as Tier IV with some redundant systems, but fail in the Key Uptime Institute design requirements for Tier IV.
TIER IV vs TIER III
- (Two) Fully redundant Fault Tolerant “A side, “B side “mirrors of all critical equipment and systems.
- Each system must be compartmentalized from fire, water and human error.
- Additionally, each system must be fully automated to respond to a fault.
ADDITIONAL DATA SHELTER FEATURES
- Fully hardened underground bunker that meets the FEMA P-320 Safe Room Standards, to provide protection from Cat 5 Hurricanes and EF5 Tornados as well as other natural or manmade disasters.
- Military Grade security with multiple security zones.
- Proprietary waterless state of the art Fire prevention /suppression systems.
- Proprietary EMP Mitigation
- Two water supply systems. (1) City water and a back up deep well on our site.
- Cabinet Level access and control auditing
- Cabinet level redundant Cat 6 Ethernet-standard
- Cabinet level redundant Fiber with SC connectors-standard
- Each Cabinet to include 4 free Cross-connects
- No recurring Cross-connect fees
- 45U Cabinets
