UIS $15M Data Center, Texas, USA

• 6 managed backbone providers
  
• 12 more third party backbone providers
  
• Liebert and PowerWare UPS power back up
  
• Anti-static environment
  
• Onsite permanent generator power
  
• Fire suppression system with VESDA
  
• 24x7 network monitoring and 24x7 security guard
  
• Redundant HVAC system by Liebert and Data Aire
  
• Video camera surveillance
  
• IPAlert system plus "hands and eyes" service
  
• Datatrax? system for electrical, UPS, HVAC, and generator monitoring
  

High Performance Network Connections

• Routing and Switching engines from Juniper and Cisco
  
• Juniper M20 routers as border routers
  
• Cisco 6500 series switches in the distribution layer
  
• Cisco 6500 and 5500 switches in the aggregation layers
  
• Cisco 3500 and 2900 series switches at the customer layer
  
• Fully meshed and redundant network with 6 backbone providers: UUNet(1Gb/s),
• Level3(1Gb/s), TimeWarner(1Gb/s), GlobalCrossing(1Gb/s), C&W(1Gb/s), and
• ATT(DS3)