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The below interactive presentation will give you photo after photo along with detailed technical information about Cisco's newly opened Allen, Texas data center:
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Key Features of Cisco's New Allen, Texas Data Center:
Tier 3 data center.
Overhead ducted supply air delivery.
Two 5.25 mW electrical power feeds.
Three 1,000-ton and two 500-ton chillers.
Up to 18.5 kW/rack, 6.5 kW/rack (average).
Total of 38,152 square feet of data floor space.
Air delivery via thirteen 89,000 custom air-handling units.
No raised access flooring, no lay-in-ceiling, 30-foot ceiling.
175 miles-per-hour hardened building with ballasted double roof.
Eight 2.1 mW rotary uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems.
Overhead A/B busway (415Y/240V) to support flexible cabinet deployments.
Flexible overhead cabling design to support servers and storage in any location.
Two 8.4 mW generators fueled by four tanks supplying 96 hours of backup power.
Ten 1,000-ton cooling towers (6 installed, 4 for expansion), 36 hours of backup air cooling.
Four thermal storage tanks: 15,000 gallons of chilled water each, 20 minutes of backup cooling for the chillers.
Multimode fiber infrastructure supports 10 Gigabit Ethernet and future 40 and 100 Gigabit Ethernet standards.
Energy Efficiency:
100 kW photovoltaic array on the roof.
LED interior and exterior lighting with occupancy sensors.
Increased IT equipment inlet air temperature to 77°F (25°C) +/- 2°.
On-site rainwater retention systems for site irrigation (native plants).
Non-chemical condenser water treatment (recycled to retention pond).
Evaporative system humidification for data halls and cooling for rotary UPS space.
Airside economizer system ventilates facility with outside air 50-60 percent of the time.
The below video presentations will walk you through the how, what and whys that went into the design of Cisco's newest data center:
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Aerial View of Cisco's New Allen Data Center:
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