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Yesterday, the BBC had a detailed article on the front page of their news website about a new high speed fibre cable being installed in to East Africa. Along with the article, there were some interesting network maps, provided by Telegeography.
We have a large Telegeography world submarine cable map on the wall in the reception area of our Centro datacentre facility, which always attracts a lot of attention and scrutiny from the slightly geekier of our visitors. The maps are also available to download as desktop wallpaper.
Centro reception area, with large Telegeography network map
On the subject of submarine cable systems, there is a detailed and fascinating (and quite long!) article by the well known author Neal Stephenson available in the Wired magazine archives here. It’s certainly worth checking out if the subject interests you.
London July 2009. Fluidata, a leading telecom provider, opens a new point of presence at the cutting edge Centro datacentre in Hemel Hempstead in collaboration with datacentre specialists Gyron. The datacentre, which comprises extensive power capabilities as well as strong security measures, successfully meets the increasing demands of businesses and telecoms companies of today.
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Built by Gyron, this data centre offers connectivity right out to the last mile, as a result of Fluidata’s broad range of connectivity products such as ADSL2+, SDSL and Fibre.
Robin Balen, Managing Director at Gyron states:
Our Centro datacentre in Hemel Hempstead has been built from the ground up with high density power and cooling systems, along with diverse dark fibre connectivity. This, coupled with our location just outside of the M25, makes the facility an ideal choice for disaster recovery and cloud computing applications. Connectivity to the end user’s premises is a key part of any such outsourcing strategy, and one which many datacentres overlook. We look forward to working with Fluidata and their wide range of connectivity services to meet this need.
Piers Daniell, Managing Director of Fluidata states:
In today’s climate, it is increasingly important for businesses to consider hosting and virtualisation in the cloud as a viable business initiative.
At Fluidata, our offering includes multiple data centres across the UK operating on a dark fibre network, configured to operate as one: This is a significant development and an important requirement for businesses looking to host key applications within the cloud. Coupled with national last mile coverage it is a compelling business case for virtualisation.
-ENDS-
About Gyron
Gyron was formed in March 2000, and offers colocation and a wide range complimentary managed services from two facilities — the London Hosting Centre in the heart of the London Docklands, and the Centro datacentre in Hemel Hempstead. Both datacentres are supported by 24/7 on-site teams of engineers and offer redundant power, cooling, and connectivity, all covered by 100% uptime service level guarantees. For more information, visit http://blog.gyron.net/.
About Fluidata
Fluidata is a leading, independent telecommunications provider offering flexible, innovative and high speed internet solutions for all sectors across the B2B market. The firm has a strong product and service portfolio, providing companies of all sizes (in particular SME’s) with bespoke, cost effective, highly robust and extremely reliable internet connections and support. For more information, visit http://www.fluidata.co.uk/.
Gyron is featured in this quarter’s edition of the Imtech Telecom Global newsletter. The article details our use of Juniper network equipment in our upgraded core network, and also describes our expansion at our new Centro datacentre facility.
You can download the whole newsletter in PDF form here (we’re on page 6), or you can read below for the article:
To keep up with increasing demand for its co-location, managed hosting and connectivity services, Gyron Internet Ltd has chosen Imtech Telecom Global and partner Juniper Networks to upgrade its core network. The new equipment for its state-of-the-art hosting site in London Docklands will allow Gyron to maintain the highest possible levels of service for its customers as the company expands nationally.
Gyron, established 8 years ago, has become a key player at the Docklands London Hosting Centre, with over 5,000sq ft of high specification hosting space, and is now expanding its high speed fibre network outside of the M25 to a new datacentre in Hemel Hempstead. Initially with a handful of customers and five racks, Gyron’s customer base has now grown to over a hundred customers. These include government departments, IT consultancies, global enterprises, banks, recruitment agencies and internet companies; all serviced by over 160 racks of equipment at Gyron’s London data centre.
With its services in high demand, Gyron required a new strategy to sell additional high capacity services within their existing hosting space, whilst also being able to support significant expansion at their new site. Drawing on Imtech’s established consultancy and support services, Gyron has chosen to upgrade its core London network with two additional Juniper MX240s, and EX-series Ethernet switches. The solution uses JUNOS software and neatly integrates routing, switching and security across Gyron’s high-performance network infrastructure.
Gyron are installing and integrating the new routers to function as a redundant pair, handling all BGP traffic on the network .
Robin Balen, Director for Gyron, stated: “Imtech has always provided a wealth of knowledge and support for our chosen Juniper platforms. Following their advice, we have selected the MX240 routers for our London site where space is at an absolute premium; whilst the MX 960 platform gives us excellent expansion potential at our new datacentre in Hemel Hempstead. I have been impressed with the Imtech’s technical ability and capabilities in implementing Juniper technologies and its proven track record in successful network deployments, both to the smaller ISPs and larger global carriers.“ Gyron are also undertaking upgrades to its 300gbps DWDM fibre ring which now connects its London Docklands hosting site and its new data centre which will house over 400 racks when it opens in mid-2009.
James Morgan, MD Imtech Telecom Global, said “it is good to see UK entrepreneurs such as the Gyron team achieving so much in such a short time; undoubtedly the Juniper platforms coupled with the easy adoption of JUNOS have helped to enable this growth and we welcome working with forward thinking innovative organisations such as Gyron.”
Continue reading ‘Press release: Gyron Internet upgrades core network with Imtech and Juniper’
The first phase of the fibre equipment for our new “Centro” datacentre site in Hemel Hempstead arrived at our London offices today.
Fibre equipment delivery arrives on-site
Construction is under way on our new fibre network, consisting of nearly 160km of private dark fibre (G.652 and G655) in a redundant ring connection between two London datacentres (both existing core fibre POPs on our network) and our new Centro site. Latency back to London is predicted to be very low, with 0.3ms on the primary leg, and 0.4ms on the longer secondary leg.
16x10G DWDM multiplexer module
We’re using DWDM technology to multiplex up to 16×10G channels over each fibre pair – giving a total network capacity of 320G. Each 10G channel can be dedicated to a single 10GigE connection for a customer, split up in to multiple 1G channels for 1GigE networking requirements, or can handle multiple Fibre Channel connections for SAN use. The modules contain tunable DWDM lasers, allowing us to configure, in software, what wavelength each module will use on the fibre. This means we can keep one part as a spare and configure it for use on any channel for rapid deployment.
In-line amplifiers
Due to the redundant leg of the fibre ring being a longer distance, we regenerate the signal at a POP site using in-line amplifiers. These boost the signal strength across the entire DWDM channel range. This also gives us the opportunity to insert an add/drop module at this site in the future to bring in additional redundant connectivity outside of London.
Partially populated equipment chassis
The first phase of the equipment is now ready for testing. We will receive delivery of appropriate line cards for customer connections as we need them.
We’re pleased to announce that after extensive planning, we will shortly commence work on upgrading our core network infrastructure.
We expect to start work on the network upgrades in mid-October, and will be installing two new core routers, utilizing the Juniper MX routing platform. The MX 240 routers give us 240gbps of routing capacity in a compact chassis, along with redundant switching control boards and power supplies. We will be initially deploying these with 40×1GE SFP ports, leaving plenty of capacity for future upgrades, including 10GB port options.
Juniper MX 240 core router
These MX 240 routers will function as a redundant pair, handling all BGP traffic on our network. In addition to these new routers, we are replacing our existing core switches with new Juniper EX switches. These EX4200 switches support 48×1GE and 2×10GE ports in a 1U chassis, with redundant power supplies, and full stacking capabilities.
Juniper EX4200 core switch
We will also be making upgrades to our metro dark fibre ring and DWDM equipment in order to prepare for integration with our new national fibre loop which will connect to our new datacenter site.
Overseeing the upgrade work will be our full time Network Architect, who joined our management team in July this year. We have always strongly believed in encouraging growth by continually investing in our hosting and network infrastructure. This latest project, with a value exceeding £200,000, continues this tradition, and ensures that we keep ahead of our customers’ high capacity network requirements.
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