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Security

• Security starts from the moment you enter the building. The entire perimeter of the NAP’s 3.7 acre property is a surrounded by a 10 foot fence with razor wire around the top. The property is completely lit with perimeter lighting and is monitored by video surveillance cameras. The footage from the cameras is stored on a specially built security server with redundant storage. Entrance through the main gate requires a keycard or manual access granted by our onsite security guards and happens through an electric gate for customers' convenience which provides completely safe and secure parking and unloading facilities for your employees and customers while on the NAP property 24x7. All main access doors are protected by key card readers and key entrances to data center areas have another level of security that is authenticated with biometric hand scanners.
  
  Within the datacenter, customers’ assets are protected by locked secure cabinets or cages and video surveillance. All assets entering or being removed from the building are logged by an onsite security guard. Our guards are armed and typically are off duty police officers with arrest powers. Our armed supervision of the data center makes us one of the most secure facilities in the world.
  
  All patrons of the NAP are required to possess a picture ID security badge that is PIC compliant with key information and color coded as to their classification. This badge gives access and allows the NAP security to quickly identify persons on the premises.

Power

• The Atlanta NAP is one of the few facilities able to support higher power density applications. Power is dual fed from the grid and protected though multiple redundant N+1 paralleled generator and ups power systems. Each UPS is configured with an additional full wrap-around bypass for extra redundancy (we are able to take the system offline for any type of internal maintenance without dropping power to the facility). All of our power systems are monitored by our state of the art computerized building management system which provides key operating details to our building management staff at all times and alerts us to problems by monitoring the systems many times per second.
  
  The generators have day tanks fed from redundant pumps from our 12,000 gallon reserve tank. The system is powered by state of the art by Cummins turbocharged generators and digital fuel management system by Simplex and Veeder-Root. The NAP has enough onsite fuel to run for several days without refueling.

Cooling Systems

• The Atlanta NAP currently has 2000 tons of cooling piped into its 50,000 sq. foot datacenter to support 225 watts of average critical load on occupied areas of the floor. The cooling tower system is made up of 4 500 ton units that are paralleled together for additional redundancy. Each bank of cooling towers utilizes state of the art variable frequency energy management technology. As with all core system, the cooling towers are N+1, fed by redundant N+1 pumps. The cooling tower makeup water is fed by our onsite well which supplied a 30,000 gallon reserve water tank before it hits the cooling towers for added redundancy. The well is backed up with a 4 inch main from the city water supply. The NAP is self contained on its water supply and can run for 2 days in the event of city water and well water failure at the same time which has a very low probability. The NAP also has innovative green technology of air to air exchange for additional efficiency.

Building Management

• The Atlanta NAP is monitored at over 450 points by a state-of-the art digital building management system. Staff can log in securely from any location and check on all systems. The datacenter floor itself is equipped with temperature sensors in strategic locations that constantly monitor conditions in the facility and make adjustments. Alarms and out-of-tolerance conditions send an e-mail alert directly to management's PDAs. The system controls water flow through pump speeds and air flow to the cooling tower through fan speeds. This saves energy and ensures that the system is operating at its peak performance 24x7. The system also monitors and logs all electrical activity within the facility and sends notifications of events.

Fire Protection

• The Atlanta NAP uses a state-of-the-art dual interlock dry pipe fire suppression system. High-tech smoke detectors signal the pipes to switch from compressed air (so Atlanta NAP staff are instantly alerted of leaks) to water. Then if a sprinkler head is set off by an actual fire, water is deployed to the affected zone only. The system is monitored through the building management system. The floors are all equipped with floor drains on 20 foot centers that drain the building in case of system activation.

Parking

• The Atlanta NAP offers free parking for all staff/customers/visitors. This parking is inside of our security-controlled gate which means you can leave your car with no worries and without paying $11/day.

On-site Offices

• The Atlanta Nap provides on-site executive offices for corporate presence and technical operations. The NAP also provides conference room facilities with multi media equipment, a break room with free beverages and an onsite rec room for tech breaks including a wii / pool table and satellite tv on a big screen.

Connectivity

• Sitting on one of AGL's main fiber backbones, the Atlanta NAP operates a multiple 10 G Ethernet connections back to key communications centers in Atlanta. Dark fiber is available very affordably to most areas in the city as well many large carriers are on net at the NAP. We have co-location in Telx at 56 Marietta and are able to offer you 100 mb and Gigabit Ethernet metro cross connects to any one of the more than 100 carriers located in the Telx building. The NAP also has a lit fiber segment to Level3 at 345 Courtland which was engineered to not touch or come near Telx for disaster purposes to ensure that the NAP is not single homed to an single network failure point which makes it unique among most co-location providers.

Equipment Loading and Unloading

• The NAP maintains drive-up docks on the front of the building for easy delivery of your freight. We also maintain a full drive-in door and loading bay on the rear of the building for inclement weather loads as well. There are no elevator loads to worry about since the facility is one story. A forklift is available onsite for large loads.

Floor Loading

• The Atlanta NAP used to be a main warehouse with heavy operations and fork lift operation inside. The floors are 12 inch thick concrete with 1 inch rebar, so there are no floor load limitations for currently known computer and telco equipment including battery operations and UPS systems.