Our Servers are parked at The Planet that currently owns and operates two state-of-the-art data centers in Dallas, Texas, offering complete in power, redundancy HVAC, fire suppression, network connectivity, and security. With over 53,000 sq ft of raised floor between the two facilities, The Planet has an offering to fit any need. The datacenter facility sits atop multiple power grids driven by TXU electric, with PowerWare UPS battery backup power and dual diesel generators onsite. Our HVAC systems are condenser units by Data Aire to provide redundancy in cooling coupled with ten managed backbone providers. Twelve more third party backbone providers are available in the building via cross connect. Fire suppression includes a pre-action dry pipe system including VESDA (Very Early Smoke Detection Apparatus) with over 700 smoke detectors between the two facilities.

 

All of our servers utilize Intel® Pentium 4, with 1.0 gigs of ram or above processing power and reliable, fast scsi hard drives for optimal performance.

 

DATA CENTER TOUR

 

Our Network Overview and Data Center in Dallas Texas USA

 

Our network architecture utilizes the Enterprise routing and switching engines from Juniper and Cisco. We utilize Juniper M20 routers as border routers, Cisco 6500 series switches in our distribution layer and Cisco 6500 switches in our aggregation layers, and Cisco 3500 and 2900 series switches at the customer layer. Our network is fully meshed and redundant with 12 backbone providers.

Cisco Certified Network

Cisco 6500 series distribution routing switched

Cisco 6500 series aggregation switches for customer access

Juniper M20 border routers

100% uptime SLA utilizing HSRP/BGP

OC48 SONET Ring - SBC

OC48 SONET Ring - Time Warner

OC48 SONET Ring - XO Communications

OC48 SONET Ring - MCI

OC48 SONET Ring - Looking Glass

OC48 SONET Ring - Broadwing

3 Gbps Direct Fiber - AboveNet

3 Gbps Direct Fiber - AT&T

1 Gbps Direct Fiber - Broadwing

1 Gbps Direct Fiber - Dallas Public Peering

2 Gbps Direct Fiber - Global Crossing

3 Gbps Direct Fiber - Level3

1 Gbps Direct Fiber - nLayer

2 Gbps Direct Fiber - Sprint

1 Gbps Direct Fiber - Time Warner

1 Gbps Direct Fiber - UUNET

1 Gbps Direct Fiber - Verio

T3 and T1 Access - EPGN

T3 and T1 Access - SBC

T3 and T1 Access - Time Warner

T3 and T1 Access - XO Communications

T3 and T1 Access - MCI