Facilities
The Planet owns and operates two state of the art datacenter facilities located
in Dallas, Texas. Both facilities offer complete redundancy in power, HVAC,
fire suppression, network connectivity, and security. With over 35,000 sq ft of
raised floor and 15,000 sq ft of static free tile, The Planet has an offering
to fit any need. Our product offerings includes private data suites
(mini-datacenters), private caged suites, cabinets, half-cabinets,
tri-cabinets, and rackspace by the Unit. Both facilities sit atop multiple
power grids driven by TXU electric, both facilities have multiple Liebert and
PowerWare UPS battery backup power, and both facilities have onsite permanent
generator power. Our HVAC systems are a combination of glycol, chilled water,
and condenser units by Liebert and Data Aire to provide redundancy in cooling
coupled with 6 managed backbone providers. Twelve more third party backbone
providers are available in the building via cross connect. Fire suppression
includes a pre-action dry pipe system in both facilities including VESDA (very
early smoke detection apparatus) along with over 600 smoke detectors. Security
is also concern for The Planet and our customers so all facilities are key card
access with CCTV for maximum security. All visitors to the datacenters must
check in and out of the facility. The goal is to provide maximum redundancy in
every facet of the datacenter environment to facilitate 100% uptime for your
entire hosting infrastructure.
Network Infrastructure
The Planet internal network architecture utilizes the Enterprise routing and
switching engines from Juniper and Cisco. We utilize Juniper M20 routers as
border routers, Cisco 6500 series switches in our distribution layer, Cisco
6500 and 5500 switches in our aggregation layers, and Cisco 3500 and 2900
series switches at the customer layer. Our network is fully meshed and
redundant with 6 backbone providers. Our current network consists of, UUNet
(GigE), Level 3 (GigE), Time Warner (GigE), Global Crossing (GigE), Verio
(GigE), and ATT (DS3). Please see our network diagram below.
The Planet Network Infrastructure