- Space planning and lighting
- Enclosures and equipment frames
- Power, including UPSs and generators
- Access control and surveillance
- Environmental control and monitoring
- Passive and active fire protection
Data Centres
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We provide design and implementation services for the accommodation of mission critical equipment, including the following:
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Cabling system manufacturer CommScope recently asked data centre managers what they considered to be the top three implementation issues.
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The relative cost of data centre floor area is high – high density of equipment helps to reduce space requirements.
As demands on the data centre change, it is important that it can respond flexibly.
The reliable availability of data and processing is depandant on robust and fault-tolerant wide area network connections. It may be necessary to accommodate the network termination equipment of a number of suppliers.
Maintaining temperature and humidity within strict limits is essential for the reliable operation of all equipment in a data center. Routine or unplanned maintenance of air conditioning plant may compromise the environment unless redundancy is built-in.
Reliability of power supply will be increased through the deployment of UPS systems, redundant power supplies and typically generator back-up as well.
High availability of services and integrity of data can only be achieved if systems have an appropriate level of redundancy built-in.
Monitoring and reporting tools must be deployed and used effectively to ensure required levels of network performance are met.
Along with availability, security and integrity of information are key requirements. Physical security and access control is just as important as electronic security.