The Datacenter: Hosting in a city near you!

The Aquarius Sorage NetworkAquarius Storage proudly houses all equipment with SoftLayer. The SoftLayer network has been designed to accommodate clients demanding the highest network performance. There is a central focus on redundancy allowing our network to rapidly self-heal failures without interruption.

Data Center Design

All SoftLayer data centers are built upon SoftLayer’s unique pod design concept, making them functionally independent with distinct and redundant resources, and fully integrated through SoftLayer’s revolutionary network architecture. You can have direct control over your system in any SoftLayer data center and full access to all of SoftLayer’s back-end services—all fully automated and on demand.

Details: Dallas Data Center

SoftLayer Dallas is located inside the recognized Infomart telecom hotel, a private, Tier III, N+1 facility near downtown Dallas. Infomart is also home to data centers belonging to MCI, Level 3, Equinix, Verio, Switch & Data, Verizon, Telefonica and Via West. It sits on three redundant TXU electrical grids, delivering diverse power to each quadrant of the building, with five on-site 100-ton water chillers meeting N+1 cooling requirements.

Specifications

  • Capacity: more than 25,000 dedicated servers
  • 6000 amps 480v Input Power
  • 6 x 750Kva UPS Battery Backup Units
  • 3 x 2000Kw Diesel Generator with On-site Fuel Storage
  • Redundant Liebert 30-ton HVAC Units
  • Pre-Action Dry Pipe Fire Suppression
  • Proximity Security Badge Access
  • Digital Security Video Surveillance

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The Network

SoftLayer seamlessly integrates three distinct and redundant gigabit network architectures—public, private, and data center-to-data center—into the industry’s first network-within-a-network topology for maximum accessibility, security, and control.

With 290 Gbps of connectivity to the Internet, SoftLayer runs one of the largest IP backbones in the US. Our 29 x 10 Gbps diverse connections are spread across 10 of the leading network providers in the US and, in addition, include multiple public peering links to dozens of additional Internet access networks.