Hurricane Electric: why we entrusted our equipment to this company

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    Our company has been working in the field of hosting for many years. Our technological platforms are in the USA, the Netherlands and Russia. In these countries, we work with a number of major telecommunications companies. One of them is Hurricane Electric. Choosing partners in the USA, we wanted to get maximum protection for our equipment so that at the most inopportune moment, everything would not fail at once for an unknown reason (frankly, there cannot be a suitable moment for such cases).

    The choice was quite large, but we decided to start working with Hurricane Electric, and, in general, did not regret it even once. The fact is that the company is one of the largest in the world. The range of services of Hurricane Electric includes collocation, web hosting, and rental of dedicated servers with tunneling and IP transit. Why did we decide to trust this company? Let's try to explain.

    The fact is that the collocation service of this company is very developed. This is facilitated by a number of points, including a developed backbone infrastructure: the company has its own backbone network of optical channels in North America, Europe and Asia. Among the positive aspects - a large number of points of presence, with the ability to connect IP transit services. There are connections with 100 main points of exchange, there is also an exchange of traffic with 4000 large networks. Critical sections of network infrastructure are duplicated. Well, plus high-speed Internet ports with the ability to switch to an additional bandwidth.

    Equipment placement




    You can work with the company with almost any amount of equipment. You can place a rack and a whole data center. Each year, the usable area increases, so that the equipment is placed more and more. And you can place at least one server, at least ten thousand. If necessary, Hurrican Electric specialists can change the configuration of the equipment being placed, or the client himself can perform this operation.



    Protection of server racks is solid - in addition to monitoring systems, it is possible to lock both rack doors with a key. As for the dimensions of the racks, that is, ordinary racks, with a depth of 30.25 inches, and deep, with a depth of 37.5 inches.



    Rack cooling:







    It is worth noting that in the United States the company has three data centers.

    Fremont 1. The area of ​​the local data center is 4180 square meters. Access, protection, support - all this is available around the clock.

    Fremont-2 . The data center area is 18580 square meters. All the same conditions as in the previous case.

    San Jose . Here, the area is smaller, 280 square meters. But you need to remember that this is Silicon Valley, where everything is not just expensive, but very expensive. But here there are 20+ varieties of fiber optic media and enhanced security, biometric access. It houses the most valuable equipment for customers and the company itself.

    Cooling system


    All company data centers use (for the time being partially) a green equipment cooling system. This improves cooling efficiency and reduces energy costs. Duplicate industrial air conditioners are also used.





    Energy infrastructure


    Protection of data centers from power outages, if not maximum, is close to that. There are emergency generators, batteries. If necessary, the customer receives an additional protection system according to an individual scheme. Only specialists have access to the energy system.



    If the central power supply system fails, battery systems come into play that provide energy until the generators are put into operation.



    Additional protection


    Each stand is also protected additionally from ground vibrations (seismic). The building is also protected.



    If necessary, customers can use any equipment that may be required.



    Another service, called remote hands, is also offered. Support Hurican Electric performs at the request of customers any physical actions if necessary (replacing a cable, connecting a monitor or keyboard, restarting the server, replacing hard drives, etc.).

    Security


    Support works 24/7, which, in general, is not uncommon now. But they work well, quickly responding to tickets and problems. All technical rooms are not accessible to guests. There is a security camera for each rack, and the client gets access to it after ordering the service. In addition, digital locks are installed at each entrance or exit, and a card is issued to customers. Personnel access to equipment is monitored and monitored.



    By the way, Hurricane Electric still provides free certification of technical experts on the use of IPv6.

    Afterword. We have been working with this company for several years, and there have never been significant problems. They really do what they promise. Our equipment here is, in our opinion, in complete safety. And we, in turn, try to do our job well.

    As already mentioned, we place the equipment in the data centers of this and other companies in other countries, we will try to write more about this in subsequent posts.

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