We are delighted to announce the next phase of our UK expansion into Manchester. As a leading name in the datacentre industry, LDeX will be delivering best in class enterprise grade colocation, network connectivity solutions from its newest carrier neutral datacentres situated in Trafford Park, Greater Manchester. The company is looking to provide robust, reliable, and agile colocation to the Manchester market.
LDeX2′ is a 20,000sq ft premium quality, carrier neutral colocation facility in Trafford Park, Manchester, well within the boundaries of the M60. Ideally located close to the M60 motorway, it also offers ease of access from Manchester City Centre and Manchester Airport alike.
Similar to LDeX1, the new datacentre will have onsite satellite farms and will provide connections to content delivery networks, OTT players and cloud platforms, enabling customers to broadcast large scale events and stream content over multiple hosted platforms. Customers can also look to expect facilities which will have a 100% uptime SLA and offer 24x7x365 disaster recovery and remote hands support services.
Every rack is provided with truly diverse A+B feeds as standard. With N+N UPS protection, rack power is reserved on 2 x diverse UPS strings for complete fail over capabilities which is far more resilient than N+1 alternatives. N+1 Diesel generator power is always on standby with 6500 litres of fuel on site and 24/7 replenishment contracts in place.
To be announced in Q2
The site is surrounded by 2.5m fencing and comprehensive CCTV systems which report images to on-site security & a specialist third party monitoring centre for an additional layer of protection. Virtual tripwires, armed at certain times of the day, protect the boundaries and provide immediate intruder threat alerts to our security guards and send automatically generated images direct to the local police where a threat is identified. Facial recognition biometric systems and volumetric man-trap portals work with our access procedures to control secure access to all areas of the data centre.
LDeX Group data centres utilise the very best in cooling and direct heat channelling technology to deliver and manage cold air flow with maximum efficiency. All LDeX Group datacentres benefit from N+1 cooling resilience and are cooled up to 10kW per rack. Bespoke cold aisle containment and the use of blanking plates ensure best practices is adhered to.
LDeX datacentres are carrier neutral and provide direct access to a range of leading network providers and carriers. All clients are free to select the network of their choice from those available on-site, whilst direct and low latency dark fibre availability, high capacity optical wave lengths and layer2 access to other data centre locations provide inter-connections to networks and equipment located elsewhere. An array of Tier 1 and Tier 2 carriers have been confirmed to provide ultra-fast low latency connectivity to LDeX customers. The company will look to provide superior access to peering and transit connectivity providers in Manchester area.
Customers at both datacentres will be able to avail of an array of network services including IP transit; RIPE, MPLS, WAN and datacentre interconnect services.
24×7 highly qualified LDeX technicians are on-hand to support your equipment on site and are trained to work as an extension to your own support team. Services provided include simple reboots and cable requests through to CCIE level network investigation services.