Data Center Overview

The Xodiax facility is a state-of-the-art Internet data center, located in Louisville, Kentucky. The first of it's kind in Kentucky, Xodiax boasts 9,000 square feet of high performance, fault-tolerant environment, supported by a skilled 24x7x365 onsite technical staff.

Xodiax clients benefit from a data center environment as good as any across the globe. Our mission to is to provide you the peace-of-mind that comes with having your mission-critical systems in a world-class facility. Xodiax offers:

• Redundant, physically diverse, high speed OC-3 Internet connectivity
• "Always On" reliability with dual power AC, battery backup and a diesel generator
• Climate and humidity controlled environment
• Physical and logical security
• Advanced fire suppression
• Solid building construction and disaster recovery preparedness
• 24x7x365 client access

We understand that a great data center is only as good as it's connectivity to the outside world. With dual all-optical OC-3 (155 Mbps each) connections to the Internet, Xodiax is the only Kentucky-based commercial facility in the state of Kentucky with this level of capacity. Click here to find out more about our network connectivity and architecture (link to Network Connectivity and Architecture below)

Network Connectivity and Architecture
The Xodiax network consists of high-end Foundry, Juniper, Cisco and Extreme Networks components and has safeguards in place in the event of a core switch or router failure. The approach for this fail-safe architecture is through a fully meshed router configuration while utilizing OSPF and HSRP protocols. Xodiax also BGP connects to multiple carrier networks which always ensures high performance and highly available Internet network uptimes for enhanced client connectivity. Within the center, the Xodiax data center has already been pre-wired for high-speed category-7 high-speed transmission wiring to support gigabit Ethernet technology.

• Xodiax load balances via multiple carriers
• Xodiax utilizes multiple tier 1 carriers to increase service availability and balance traffic coming into and out of the data center.
• Xodiax is network agnostic
• Xodiax' ability to increase connectivity as needed is strengthened by the fact that we utilize multiple national tier1carriers. Unlike data centers limited by utilizing single carriers, Xodiax can provide high availability connectivity to the Internet and easily keep pace with capacity demands.

Service Level Agreement
The Xodiax network and systems are backed by Service Level Agreements ensuring customer confidence, reliability and system availability.

Network Architecture
The Xodiax data center has redundant, high-bandwidth, direct connections to national Internet backbones, making us carrier-diverse. Available is a drawing of our redundancy for local access and national Internet gateways. This drawing demonstrates multiple diverse local high-speed SONET (OC-48) carriers (KDL, Adelphia, BellSouth) connectivity as well as our multiple OC-3 physically diverse national tier1 Internet gateways (Qwest and AT&T).
Security

The Xodiax data center is both physically and logically secure. It is protected 24x7x365 by internal and external cameras, which are monitored by the Xodiax Network Operations Center. The front door is protected by a badge reader system and badge access is required to enter the building. Before access to the actual data center area is permitted, one must first pass through the "man trap" area, which is a concrete hallway protected with a badge reader for initial access and then a biometric hand scanner, personal security code and a camera to ensure physical and visual confirmation of identity. This entire process is monitored 24x7x365 by the Xodiax Network Operations Personnel.

Environmentals
The Xodiax data center utilizes best-in-class environmental units to control and monitor the temperature and humidity in the facility. Four redundant Leibert units provide 120 tons of cooling capacity. These units are run in pairs on alternating 24-hour shifts so that there are always two units ready as hot back-ups. These units are linked back to the Xodiax Network Operations Center so that any changes in status, such as a failure in a heating or cooling unit or humidity or power are immediately detected.

Power
Xodiax Power Diagram Power into the Xodiax data center is derived from two distinct physically diverse electrical power grids. Because one of these power grids is redundant, three power grids, in effect, back up Xodiax. The power coming into the facility is conditioned via multiple UPS units. These units also serve as battery power backup while standard line power is switched over to generator power (this takes approximately 6-7 seconds). An extensive battery back up system, designed and installed by IBM, is utilized to condition all power coming into the facility. These units have redundant fail-over features and prevent against power surges, spikes, and brown outs. The electrical needs of the Xodiax data center are also supported by a 750 kW Kohler diesel generator. Xodiax also has contracts in place for additional fuel delivery. Additionally, the Xodiax data center is located in a hospital zone, which means high priority from the electrical utility, fire and police.

Fire Suppression
The Xodiax data center utilizes a Fike FM-200 dry-fire suppression system. FM-200 is an environmentally safe fire suppression material, which has similar effectiveness to the older and more traditional Halon systems. The system can be deployed manually, or by a sequence of two failures anywhere in a zone. The center is fully equipped with smoke and heat detection sensors. The FM-200 tanks fully deploy within 3 and 7 seconds. The data center is also equipped with fire doors, which separates multiple zones of the data center. Fire shutters also are deployed to cover the Network Operations Center windows overlooking the data center and are automatically deployed when a fire condition reaches a critical level.

Building Construction and Disaster Recovery
The Xodiax data center is located in a bunker-like building with an infrastructure designed to withstand natural disasters. The reinforced concrete walls are 12-18 inch thick and no data center collocation space windows protecting client's servers and services from many types of natural disasters. The building is also above the 100-year flood plain and water detection systems, which detect water intrusion and high humidity, are located under the flooring in the data center.

Xodiax has processes and procedures in place for recovery of essential systems as a result of catastrophic events. Regular simulation testing of disaster recovery procedures, critical systems and back-up services such as generator power are performed on a monthly basis.

Client Access
Xodiax clients have 24x7x365 access to their equipment in the Xodiax facility. No advance notice is required. Authorized badge access for personnel is determined by the customer and can be controlled via CCO (Customer Control Online), Xodiax's Web-based management tool.