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The Planet Datacenter

  • State-of-the-Art Datacenter
  • Dedicated Network Monitoring
  • 78,500 sq. ft. facility
  • High-End Pentium-Class Servers
  • Cisco Certified Network
  • Redundant Network Connectivity

24 x 7 Network and Server Monitoring Plus a Dedicated Network Operations Center

Datacenter Overview

hosting datacenterThe Planet corporate headquarters and main datacenter facility is located in Dallas, Texas. The building is F5 rated and has 77,000 square feet with 35,000 sq. ft. of raised floor datacenter space. The Planet has two other datacenters and just acquired a fourth facility that will be operational in March of 2006.

The Network Operations Center (NOC) along with Customer Care provides support and proactively monitors the datacenters and customer systems 24/7/365. Certified Operation Technicians are able to view all connectivity changes in the mesh including all customers and providers (ISPs). They watch all environmental conditions within the datacenter as well as monitor news and weather events.

Our network architecture utilizes the Enterprise routing and switching engines from Juniper and Cisco. We utilize Juniper M20 routers as border routers, Cisco 6500 series switches in our distribution layer and Cisco 6500 switches in our aggregation layers, and Cisco 3500 and 2900 series switches at the customer layer. Our network is fully meshed and redundant with 8 backbone providers for a total of 28 Gbps of available bandwidth.

Technical Specifications

Here are just a few features of what this state-of-the-art datacenter has to offer:

  • hosting datacenter78,500 sq. ft. facility
  • 35,500 sq. ft. raised floor
  • (23) HVAC units totalling 574 tons
  • Very Early Smoke Detection Apparatus (VESDA)
  • Pre-action dry pipe sprinkler system
  • Over 500 smoke detectors in integrated system
  • Northern Proximity security badge entry/exit
  • Multiple TXU electrical grids
  • 4800 amps of 480v input power
  • 3 main transfer switches
  • (3) 500KVA Powerware UPS units, 90 batteries each
  • Standalone PDUs at each cabinet row
  • 1-megawatt generator (2000 gallon tank)
  • 1.5-megawatt generator (2200 gallon tank)
  • DataTrax monitoring for all datacenter infrastructure
  • Cisco Certified Network
  • Juniper M20 Border Routers
  • Cisco 6500 Series Distribution Routing Switches
  • Cisco 6500 Series Aggregation Switches
  • 100% Uptime SLA utilizing HSRP/BGP
  • Intel Pentium-Class Servers