Co-location
Aurora Telecom offer best in class co-location facilities at key locations across our Irish fibre network. Each site utilises uninterrupted power supply (UPS) and DC battery backup. This along with emergency on-site diesel generators ensures resiliency and eliminates downtime. Our facilities have been designed to anticipate and avoid any threats that could impact network availability.
House your equipment in our highly secure facilities
Our co-location facilities offer a Point of Presence (PoP) near all major towns. Designed with an average spacing of 80km between sites making it ideal for In Line Amplification (ILA) for backhaul services and as an access point for customers.
Our co-location facilities offer fully serviced footprints in a dedicated and secure environment. The facility is fully monitored by our building monitoring system (BMS) and our dedicated network operations centre (NOC).
Always on monitoring
Our co-location features include:
- 24 x 7 x 365 monitoring
- Onsite diesel backup generators
- Internal and external CCTV
- Intruder alarm system
- Fire detection and suppression system
- DC (direct current) power with battery backup
- Uninterrupted power supply
- Leak detection
- Air conditioning
- Internal cable management systems
- All facilities have diverse fibre routes terminating in separate ODFs
Our co-location facility is the optimal solution for customers requiring:
- Footprint space in a climate controlled secure environment
- Facilities with multiple layers of power redundancy
- Dedicated onsite backup generators
- UPS and DC battery backup system
- Dispersed co-location facilities nationwide dispersed at ~80km intervals across the network
- Download our detailed data sheet for a full summary of all our co-location features.
Our solutions
Co-location
Use our custom-built facilities to house networking equipment. Customers can avail of our professional infrastructure without the cost of building and managing their own facility. This provides customers the ability to aggregate local traffic for backhaul through the network.
In-line amplification
Use our custom build facilities to house optical amplifiers along a fibre optic backhaul cable to boost signals and maintain their strength over long distances.
Why choose Aurora Telecom's co-location services?
Our co-location facilities have been built to provide customers with as complete a service as possible.
Typical co-location facilities measure 9m long x 3m wide x 3m high and are constructed from double skin plastisol coated steel, designed to meet a resistance to penetration of solid bodies and water greater than IP55.
The Eltek Flatpack DC power system rectifies the AC mains power converting it to 48-53 volts DC supply to the customer cabinets. In times of electricity mains fail, the system switches over to its battery backup supply. The system consists of 48v rectifiers utilising a N+1 design and facilitates an A&B feed to the equipment racks.
All sites are equipped with onsite backup 50KVA 3 Phase diesel generators, external bunded diesel storage tanks and automatic change over switch to give a backup autonomy in excess of 24 hours in the event of failure of mains power supply.
Each cabin has the Riello SEP 3000 UPS system installed. This provides a true in line double conversion (VFI) UPS. The system has a fail-safe internal bypass for continued operation. The battery system is of a sealed lead-acid type fully scalable and modular.
Our colocation cabins are equipped with Inergen fire suppression systems, a solution that safeguards critical infrastructure without compromising equipment or safety. Inergen uses a clean, inert gas mixture that extinguishes fires by reducing oxygen levels just enough to stop combustion while remaining safe for people and leaving no residue. This environmentally friendly system ensures uninterrupted operations and maximum protection for our customers equipment.
In order to maintain an optimal operating environment for the equipment, each cabin has been fitted with a DIONX DAQs air conditioning system. This provides heating and cooling as required using free air and mechanical cooling. This keeps the room at a temperature between 16 and 23 degrees centigrade with an N+1 design.
The cabins are monitored and managed remotely via a BMS - Building Management System from the Aurora Telecom monitoring centre. This system is designed to communicate with and manage all of the systems within the co-location facility.
Each cabin contains two Tyco FIST-GR3 rack containing Tyco FIST-GPS3 optical distribution frames and patching trays at opposite ends of the cabin. Each GR3 Rack contains a single diversely routed span (East or West) of the Aurora Telecom national fibre optic cable. All connectors in the GPST patching trays within the ODF’s are SC-PC.
Should a breakout be required, the customer fibres shall be patched directly from the ODF’s to the customer’s co-location rack. Fibre can be run over diversely routed paths in the fibre raceways at ceiling level. All customer access to the fibre shall be managed at their co-location rack only as the ODF will be locked from all third-party access. If a breakout is not required within a co-location facility, the fibres can be routed directly from ODF to ODF.
The cabins are fitted with a leak detection system to detect the ingress /presence of moisture within the cabin.
The CCTV system comprises of two ethernet based CCTV cameras internally and two high speed 4-way Multi sensor cameras located externally providing 24x7x365. The intrusion detection and alarm system installed within the building includes magnetic door contacts and PIR motion sensors. The system is addressable locally and remotely via the BMS monitoring link.
