Located near Kansas City International Airport in the AirWorld Technology Park, the newly opened GSI Air World Technology Center (ATC) covers over 5 acres, with over 70,000 square feet of secure raised-floor computing space.
Physical Security
- Interiors and exteriors are vigilantly monitored by our 24/7/365 staff via our closed-circuit video surveillance system, covered with over 24 cameras feeding a time-lapse digital video recorder (DVR) with 90 days retention.
- Access to our data centers is tightly controlled by various protocols including proximity keycards, and a man-trap with a guard shack requiring valid picture identification. Additionally, visitors and/or vendors must have registered and verified an access ticket prior to their arrival, and will be escorted to their servers once they get there.
- Our data center floors are located in a building-within-a-building, completely isolated from exterior access.
Disaster Prevention & Protection
- Smoke and fire suppression starts with our early warning smoke detection system using ion and laser-based detection units.
- In the unlikely event of a fire, we have a dual-interlock, pre-action, dry-pipe sprinkler system. Additionally our 24/7 staff is trained to use Halotron clean agent fire extinguishers.
Fiber Capacity & Core IP Network & Bandwidth
- Our core network is Cisco-powered.
- We have diverse fiber entry points from 6 different vendors:
- AT&T
- TimeWarner
- Qwest
- Sprint
- Telecove
- Unite
- And 5 upstream Tier 1 providers:
- AT&T
- Sprint
- Level3
- Cogent
- Global Crossing
Environmental Controls
- We have taken additional steps to ensure that our data centers are kept at the right temperature
- We have one of the first dually diverse cooling configuration systems which ensures temperature, humidity and air flow consistency
- High-capacity chilled water loop system with 320 tons cooling capacity to datacenters
- Dual external chillers
- 150 tons of precision split (DX) air cooling
- No water facilities are above the data center floor
- FOUR chilled water pumps with a capacity of 600 tons feed two chilled water loops
- Water pumps are linked with an exterior chiller
Conditioned Power
- Dual feed from Aquila provides independent/redundant 25,000 V main power feeds
- Generators are in place in the event of a natural disaster
- 3 megawatt transformer for power failure protection