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Chicago, IL

Dallas, TX

Kansas City, MO

London, UK

Los Angeles, CA

New York, NY

Specification of Servers -
Windows Server 2008 R2
Intel Xeon E31230 3.20 GHz
1x 500GB Hard Drive (For Windows O/S)
1x 1TB Hard Drive (For All Game Files)
16GB RAM

Our Chicago Servers are located at -
Stead Fast Colocated

350 East Cermak Rd Data Center (chi01-chi02)

Steadfast Networks operates its own state of the art data center located in downtown Chicago, Illinois on the 2nd and 4th floors of the Digital Lakeside facility (350 E Cermak Rd) one of the world's largest data center facilities. This is the same building that serves as the home to major corporations such as the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME Group), the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), Equinix, Fidelity Investments, British Petroleum (BP), CenturyLink (Qwest and Savvis), British Telecom (BT), T-Systems, and many others. The facility exceeds Tier III data center standards by providing 2N power redundancy, N+1 redundant HVAC, 2N network redundancy, and 24/7 on-site security. Fiber connectivity is available to over one hundred networks through both Equinix (5th and 6th Floors) and the building MMR (2nd Floor, operated by TelX). Steadfast Networks can directly provide redundant managed network services, 24/7 on-site system administration, and managed colocation services. General

Data Center Space: 16,000 Square Feet
Floor Load: 250 Pounds per Square Foot
Security: Proximity Card and Biometric Access Controls, 24/7 Security Camera Monitoring/Recording, 24/7 On-Site Security Staff
IT Staffing: 24/7 On-Site Systems Administrators
Power Density: Up to 12kw per Cabinet
Audits: SAS70 / SSAE16 Audited
Services Provided Out of Facility:Â Managed Colocation Services

Facility Infrastructure

Utility Power: 2 MW
Power Distribution: 2N Redundant UPS, PDU, and Utility
UPS: 2N 750 kVA Liebert UPS Units, Minimum 15 Minute Battery Capacity
Generator: Multiple 1-2MW Caterpillar Generators, N+1
Chillers: Building provided redundant chilled water, 8.5 million gallon storage tank
CRAC: 26x 20 Ton Liebert Units, N+1
Fire Suppression: VESDA Particulate Detection, Clean Agent Extinguishers, Pre-Action Dry Pie Sprinkler

Network

Fiber Diversity: Dual fully diverse fiber paths, building entry points, and in-building riser
Available Networks: Steadfast Networks, Abovenet, Verizon, Qwest, Level3, BT, CME, ICE, Sidera, T-Systems, XO, and over 100 other networks.
Internal Cabling: Cat6/6e for 10 Gigabit Ethernet, Single Mode and Multe Mode Fiber, Overhead Cable Trays

Specification of Servers -
Windows Server 2008 R2
Intel Xeon E31230 3.20 GHz
1x 500GB Hard Drive (For Windows O/S)
1x 1TB Hard Drive (For All Game Files)
16GB RAM

Our Dallas Servers are located at -
QuadraNet Colocated

QuadraNet's Dallas Datacenter is an unparalleled data center environment was built for security, high availability, connectivity and redundancy. Benefit from an industry-leading power-to-space ratio and technicians who work on-site around the clock safeguarding your IT assets and supporting the management of your computing systems. Our 68,000 square feet of state-of-the-art, ground-level floor space gives you the freedom and flexibility to scale seamlessly.

Our restricted access Network Operations Center (NOC) is staffed 24x7x365 by on-site technicians. In addition to our team of technical experts, the NOC’s automated systems constantly monitor network performance, power, cooling, & security.

Infrastructure Specifications

SAS 70 Type II Audited
Cold and Hot Row Architecture for optimum airflow
30" Raised Flooring
N+1 Redundant Power Backup Systems
Automatic Transfer Switching
Four Backup Diesel Power Generators
Libert HVAC's each with independant condensors

Network Specifications

Redundant CISCO Core Routers
Multiple 10-GIGE Backbone Uplinks
10 Mbps, 100 Mbps or 1000 Mbps Network Ports
Automated Domain Nameservers
Automated Reverse DNS
Automated IP RWhois and SWIP
Secure Private VLAN per Customer
Server Uptime Monitoring

QuadraNet Dallas Backbones

Savvis -- Transit -- 1x10Gbps
Global Crossing -- Transit -- 1x 10Gbps
Equinix LA -- Transit -- 1x 10Gbps
Equinix DAL -- Peering -- 1 x 10Gbps
Level(3) - Transit - 1x 1Gbps

Specification of Servers -
Windows Server 2008 R2
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.40 GHz
1x 500GB Hard Drive (For Windows O/S)
1x 500GB Hard Drive (For All Game Files)
8GB RAM

Our London Servers are located at -
RackSrv Rented

Our primary POP is a newly built facility named ‘SOTA’ and is based within Kent, South East England. Our office is little over 30 mins away from the site allowing us to make regular visits. Furthermore, for peace of mind, we have contracts in place to have engineers onsite within minutes should an emergency ever occur, regardless of the time!

Redundant Power

SOTA provide us a redundant, high-capacity, stable and reliable power supply with easy scalable expansion in the future. Power is isolated between racks and maintained indefinite. The facility use high specification UPS units to maintain the entire building power should the mains grid fail and high specification on-site generators which can deal with both customer and plant load whilst recharging the UPS.

Air Conditioning

To ensure optimum performance, all data floors are maintained at a constant 21°C ± 2°C and relative humidity is kept at 50% ± 10%. Both are continually monitored by the electronic building management system which also monitors and remotely operates sensors covering electrical, mechanical, fire detection and leak detection systems.

Fire Detection/Suppression

Very Early Smoke Detection Apparatus (VESDA) has been installed at SOTA.

These highly sensitive smoke detectors are linked to the Building Management system which is pro-actively monitored from a network operations centre. This system provides very early detection to help avoid fire, loss and business disruption. This coupled with an FM200 gas based fire retardant that is environmentally friendly enables fires to be put out instantly without damaging equipment.

RackSRV understands the need for high quality internet bandwidth and we have spared no expense in insuring that our upstreams and our internal switching equipment are up to the job as having access to fantastic internet routing is pointless without having suitable hardware for delivery!

Here is an extract about the network topology of our Kent upstream:

"SynergyWorks operates its own multi-gigabit BGP4 enabled network. Our network spans 5 UK data-centres where we connect to 4 global transit feeds and gain access to over 125'000 low latency partial & peering routes."

Please feel free to test your latency and routing to our multi-gigabit Kent network via the following IP: 91.204.211.225.

You can also test your throughput to our Kent network by grabbing a 10MB or 100MB test file from our webserver at pxe1.racksrv.com/speed/

Here is an extract about the network topology of our Manchester upstream:

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Please feel free to test your latency and routing to our multi-gigabit Manchester network via the following IP: 213.5.183.225.

You can also test your throughput to our Manchester network by grabbing a 10MB or 100MB test file from our webserver at pxe2.racksrv.com/speed/

Specification of Servers -
Windows Server 2008 R2
Intel Xeon X3220 2.40 GHz
1x 500GB Hard Drive (For Windows O/S)
1x 500GB Hard Drive (For All Game Files)
8GB RAM

Our Los Angeles Servers are located at -
QuadraNet Rented

QuadraNet's Los Angeles facilities total a whopping 50,000-plus square feet of privately owned and operated datacenter space. We operate one of the largest footprints in Los Angeles which is specifically dedicated to an end-user colocation provider. Our colocation facilities are built-out in the LA Telecom Center at 530W 6th Street in downtown Los Angeles, and we are present on 5 floors with 6 stand-alone datacenter suites. Each of our datacenter suites features independently operated infrastructure including UPS Battery Backup Units, HVAC and CRAC cooling units, and distribution routers. This compartmentalization of our resources limits risk and liabilities to only specific groups of equipment, as opposed to wholesale outages.

Infrastructure Specifications

Capacity for over 15,000 dedicated servers
Each datacenter suite equipped with 2 x 150KvA UPS Battery Backup Units
Each datacenter suite cooled by multiple Liebert and APC CRAC's
1200Amps 480v Input Power per suite
All suites backed by 3 x 2000Kw Caterpillar Generators
Every suite secured by keycard authorized entry
Direct access via conduit to 1 Wilshire Meet-Me-Room

Network Specifications

Capacity for over 15,000 dedicated servers
Each datacenter suite equipped with 2 x 150KvA UPS Battery Backup Units
Each datacenter suite cooled by multiple Liebert and APC CRAC's
1200Amps 480v Input Power per suite
All suites backed by 3 x 2000Kw Caterpillar Generators
Every suite secured by keycard authorized entry
Direct access via conduit to 1 Wilshire Meet-Me-Room

QuadraNet Dallas Backbones

Savvis -- Transit -- 1x10Gbps
nLayer -- Transit -- 1x 10Gbps
HE.net -- Transit -- 1x 1Gbps
Tiscali -- Transit -- 1 x 10Gbps
Highwinds -- Transit -- 1 x 10Gbps
Equinix LAIIX -- Peering -- 1 x 10Gbps
Any2Exchange -- Peering - 1 x 10Gbps
Xeex -- Peering -- 1 x 10Gbps
HiNet Taiwan -- Peering -- 1 x 10Gbps

Specification of Servers -
Windows Server 2008 R2
Intel Xeon E31230 3.20 GHz
1x 500GB Hard Drive (For Windows O/S)
1x 1TB Hard Drive (For All Game Files)
16GB RAM

Our New York Servers are located at -
Stead Fast Colocated

121 Varick St Data Cente (nyc16)r

The 121 Varick St Data Center in downtown Manhattan, New York was opened to facilitate the expansion of geographically redundant services and disaster recovery (DR) and to allow us to provide a cost effective colocation solution in Manhattan. This datacenter has N+1 redundancy (optimized for single corded equipment) and SAS70 / SSAE16 compliance which allows us to meet the needs of even the most stringent customer. While there are fewer networks available on-site, high speed connectivity (400 Gbit/sec of redundant capacity) is available to data centers at 60 Hudson and 111 8th.

General 121 Varick Data Center

Data Center Space: 5,000 Square Feet
Floor Load: 300 Pounds per Square Feet
Security: Security: Proximity Card, 24/7 Security Camera Monitoring/Recording, 24/7 Building Security
IT Staffing: 24/7 On-Site Technical Support Staff
Power Density: Up to 8kw per Cabinet
Audits: SAS70 / SSAE16 Audited
Services Provided Out of Facility:Â Colocation Services

Infrastructure

Utility Power: 10MW
UPS: N+1 300 kVA Powerware, Minimum 15 Minute Battery Capacity
Generator: 2x 500 KW GM Generators
Chillers: N+1 500 Ton Chillers
CRAC: N+1, Various Sizes and Manufacturers
Fire Suppression: Particulate Detection, Pre-Action Dry Pie Sprinkler

Network

Fiber Diversity: Dual fully diverse fiber paths, building entry points, and in-building riser
Available Networks: Steadfast Networks, AT&T, Verizon, Qwest, and Atlantic Metro
Transport Services: Layer 2 and CWDM/DWDM service to 111 8th, 60 Hudson, 32 6th, 325 Hudson, 300 Blvd East, 165 Halsey, 25 Broadway, 55 Broad, and 75 Broad
Internal Cabling: Cat5/6 as requested, Single Mode and Multe Mode Fiber, Overhead Cable Trays

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