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