The
FortressITX Data Center resides in Clifton, NJ,
just 14 miles from New York City. This new
facility boasts enormous growth potential
allowing us capabilities of up to 55,000 sq ft
of pure datacenter floor space, and ease of
access to backbone providers. Currently, the
facility incorporates over 7,500 sq ft of
completed raised floor data center space, along
with 4,500 sq ft of corporate office space which
includes a front reception area, conference
rooms, and ample space for our employees. The
new datacenter has been carefully planned from
inception to overcompensate for such factors as
cooling, generators, UPS's, backup generators,
fire suppression, and much, much more. Our new
facility has been set in place with 7,500 sq ft
of raised flooring, 4 (ten) 20 ton AC units and
double pre-action fire suppression system.
Connectivity
FortressITX currently uses MCI and
Above.net as its backbone providers, and is
adding Level3 and Global Crossing in the near
future. DedicatedNOW offers fast, reliable
connectivity to the internet via an MCI OC48
Full Sonnet Ring with the addition of dual
OC192's in the upcoming
future.
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From the
west coast NOC, offers only world class
bandwidth. While some hosting companies use dirt
cheap junk bandwidth from providers that use
public peering points, the NOC only uses the
highest quality providers with private peering.
Public peering points are notorious for bringing
incredible slow downs, packet loss and even
breaks in connectivity. However, private peering
offers only top quality bandwidth, no slow
downs, the least number of hops and backbones to
get to where you are, and plenty of available
overhead. Bridging technology us also used which
means that almost every backbone that exists is
only one hop away from the core router. This
means the fastest route and most reliable path
to you. As a side note, all customers who
connect to the internet either through ATT
broadband (or similar) or through Cox broadband
(or similar) have a direct connection to their
west coast server. For example, a customer with
a Cox cable modem will never even have to go to
the internet to get to their server, it is a
direct connection! Cox and ATT have a large
share of the broadband services in the United
States which means your customers that have
their connectivity through Cox and ATT will have
a direct connection for the absolute fastest and
most reliable connection. Using state of the art
BGP4 routing protocol each packet that leaves
the NOC network is evaluated and sent out the
best route possible. In the event that one of
our providers fails, traffic is automatically
and seamlessly transferred out our other
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The Planet
has joined six (6) different Tier one backbone
providers together to form the best network
infrastructure in the industry, with backbone
border routers of Juniper M20's and our fully
redundant switching layer comprises a certified
six pack design of Cisco™ 6500 series switches.
All customer access switches in the datacenter,
and there are hundreds of them, are Cisco™ 2950
series switches designed for maximum performance
and uptime availability. Our current backbone
provider list running the BGP4 protocol is
listed below.

The data center facility
infrastructure starts with five diverse OC48
SONET fiber rings and 1 OC192 SONET fiber ring,
providing the basic connectivity to six
different Internet access carriers. The 35,000
square foot datacenter is state of the art. The
bare essentials are: A preaction dry-pipe
sprinkler system with 580 smoke detectors and a
VESDA contaminate system to create a full proof
fire prevention system. 23 - 26 ton Data Aire
down flow air conditioners designed to run in
complete redundancy for maximum cooling. 6
-500KVA Powerware UPS battery backup systems
with 90 batteries each (540 total) for up to 80
minutes of UPS battery backup power. 2 - Cummins
backup generators. Big Moe, that's his name, is
a 1.5Megawatt 16 cylinder diesel with a 2200
gallon diesel fuel tank. Little Joe, the
not-so-small guy, is a 1.0Megawatt 12 cylinder
diesel with a 2000 gallon diesel fuel tank. We
can operate for 15 days on generator power
without a refuel. Couple these generators with
our three input electrical feeds to two
different city grids in downtown Dallas and our
uptime guarantee on power is
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