Internet Data Center (IDC) Overview

Designed and constructed by IBM, IDC is operated, maintained and managed according to international standards. Building are equipped with advanced facilities and network equipment, whose safety, stability and flexibility are high-standard in the world
 
Location
IDC is located in Tianjin Economic Technological Development Area (TEDA), which is about 30 km away from Tianjin downtown, and 120km away from Peking. There are an express ways to Tianjin and Peking separately.

 


Infrastructure
•Building
Total 3,000 square meters
Three areas: Co-location area, Hosting area and VIP area
 

• Power Supplies
Four-way high-voltage power supply
Two-way UPS APC provided ,the capacity to support full load is 15 minutes
As a power backup, diesel generators is installed, starting work in 75 seconds
With three layers power supplies, IDC can provide power without interruption (7*24)

• Security System:
The outstanding security system in IDC provides in-deep protection to IDC building, network equipment and servers. This system ensures safety of customers’ assets and data, effectively avoiding invasion and various unauthorized access

Physics Security
24x7 professional security guard
IC card and Fingerprint identification
CCTV-60 surveillance cameras
The Command Center performs monitoring and alarm functions, real-time and 7X24 manner, on temperature, humidity, water penetration, UPS and air-conditioning system, to catch the information of the operations of various systems timely so as to ensure that the facilities in the IDC run safely and effectively 24×7 security, access control, monitoring and 15-day video keeping prevents unauthorized access and help clients to investigate any suspected issues

Network Security
Abundant equipment and connection provide clients with close to 100% network reliability
Secured network design resist attacks, which can protect uninterrupted operation even if with network attacks
Uses strong access control system, which highly blocks illegal intrusions

Management Security
IBM defines security policies and implement in the IDC( ITCS 104) for the protection of commercial customer information assets on network and computing environments .
Network infrastructure owner ensure that all infrastructure components comply with this standard.
Network system and peripheral device owner ensure that the system and device settings are complied with this standard.

• Air-conditioning
Air-conditioning system is used to ensure the constant temperature and humidity in machine room
• The backup air-conditioning system has two-way power supply, so any breakdown will not impact normal operation
• Fire Control System
Temperature/smoke sensor and alarm system installed at both ceiling and raise-floor

Network Resources
IDC has broadband connection from China Telecom, China NetCom and China UniCom at the same time. The capacity of 4G fiber-optical interconnection and multiple ISPs redundant connection ensure high network availability and realiability.

Autonomous Area:
In North China, I@T IDC is the first IDC to obtain the AS number. It has Internet autonomous area. Seamless transfer can be realized among multiple telecom ISPs backbone networks, dynamic routing makes network connection uninterrupted.
• Network Structure
Based on TEDA broadband network, IDC’s network is built according to IBM USF V5 standard. It adopts advanced technology and first-class backbone equipment. The network has such features as follows:

• Layering design: Reasonable layer division and design ensure a stable network system, safe connection, convenient extension & management and easy bandwidth assignment.
• High performance: The kilomega -based network has high-speed network interface. It adopts advanced hardware technology to achieve high-performance of exchange and routing.

• Extensibility: With business scales increasing, port extension and performance improvement can be realized.

• Reliability: Backbone exchange equipment has internal redundancy feature to avoid one-point failure. There are redundant network topology design and structure, backup main exchange equipment and redundant links.

• Security: Reasonable selected firewalls and other equipment help to realize security control: strictly access control to prevent external illegal users and internal legal users who exceed their privileges.

Command Centre:
Command Centre is the management core of IDC. It integrates various systems and applications together for unified management. Meanwhile, there is sound and picture alarm, as well as real-time and picturized intelligent system.
Mastering various information of IDC, Command centre can provide detailed reports about resources, environment and network performance.
Command centre can supervise system administrators to respond and solve problems as soon as possible. Security and usability are greatly improved, in turn to enhance management efficiency.