After in-depth testing and analysis of 3 major vendors Node4 has selected Juniper as the preferred supplier of all its core / edge MPLS equipment.
This shows Node4 commitment to continued investment in technology, allowing us to offer advanced, scalable and resilient solutions to our customers. The new resilient self healing MPLS network will become the heart of our network allowing us to offer flexable Layer 2 and Layer 3 services to our customers from any of our Datacentre at speeds of 10Mb, 100Mb, 1GE or 10GE.
The deal includes the purchase of £370,000 worth of kit including 5x Juniper MX240 with multiple 10GE cards and 5x J-Series 4350 with 20x 1GE. These devices will be deployed across Node4’s Derby and Wakefield Datacenters, Manchester TeleCity and London Telehouse.
juniper MX240
Juniper J-4350
Implementation work will commence in November in preparation for the opening of Node4 new 27,000 SQFT Tier VI datacentre in Wakefield which is due to open Q1 2009.
The network upgrades will also coincide with the installation of a new 10GE Ring between Derby, Wakefield and Manchester.
[click here] to see the progress of Node4 new Wakefield Datacentre
We are proud to announce that in January 2009, Node4 will be opening our 3rd Datacentre just outside Leeds. We have witnessed a rise in demand for data centre space, whether that be for colocation, managed hosting or a hosted telephony, since we opened DC2 in November last year. So to meet this demand we are currently developing a site just off the M62, an easily accessible location for the whole country.
We estimate that the new facility will have the capacity to hold 500 racks with some private suites available on request. DC3 will continue with, and also improve on the high standards Node4 already have in our existing data centres with many features being N+1 and in some cases N+N. There will also be multiple 10Gb links between the new site and Node4 headquarters, giving our existing customers the option to spread their business servers across two sites.
At the moment the steel structure of the building is in place, with architectural plans currently being finalised.
Site Spec
We are please to announce that Hall I is now LIVE and has its first set of paying customers in an operational…
This is an exciting time for Node4, with the success of Hall I in DC2 and now with the extra capacity of 136 racks , we are firmly on course to becoming one of the leading high qaulaity co-location suppliers in the UK..
All the racks have a minimum 4Kw power rating withsome racks having the abbility to take 8Kw, with A+B resiliant feeds.
The Spec of DC2 is below Or download the datasheet
