Co-location Services

Q9's co-location service provides customers with a physically secure environment, power circuits from independent power sources and reliable cooling for their equipment within the secure confines of a Q9 data centre. Space, power and cooling capacity is allocated to customer based on the amount of capacity they reserve. Customer environments are deployed as single cabinets, groups of cabinets or custom cages. Q9's extensive cable tray infrastructure and centralized cable frames provide options for rapid deployment and path diversity when building connectivity between non-adjacent customer environments .


Cabinets

Q9 cabinets provide our customers with a secure, high-availability environment for their co-located hardware and IT operations. Customers are deployed in single cabinets or in groups of cabinets. Adjacent cabinets have secure "pass-through" areas to allow customers to run their own cabling between their own cabinets.

It is common for customers to accomodate their growth by taking additional cabinets over time as they reserve more capacity. Q9's pre-engineered cable plant supports rapid cross connections and requirements for diversity to ensure that such growth is accomodated quickly and efficiently.

Whether their environment is located in a single cabinet or groups of multiple cabinets, every Q9 customer benefits from the same high level of support and features that are common to each Q9 data centre.

Q9 Full Cabinets

  • Physically secure enclosures with biometric access control
  • Supports up to 42 rack units
  • Depth-adjustable railings
  • Standard rack PDUs or custom power circuits
  • Two independent power sources
  • 100% power availability warranty


 


Cages

Q9 cages provide our customers with a secure, high-availability environment that has been customized to suit their requirements. Custom cages are typically designed and built for customers who have:

  • requirements for a larger number of racks/enclosures
  • non-standard hardware or enclosures that cannot be accomodated in Q9's standard cabinets
  • hardware with very high-density cooling requirements

Similar to cabinet customers, it is common for cage customers to accomodate their growth by taking additional cage environments over time as they reserve more capacity. Q9's pre-engineered cable plant supports rapid cross connections and requirements for diversity to ensure that such growth is accomodated quickly and efficiently.

Whether their environment is located in a single cage or multiple cages, every Q9 customer benefits from the same high level of support and features that are common to each Q9 data centre.

Q9 Custom Cages

  • Secure cage enclosure with biometric access control
  • Built to suit customer requirements
  • Standard Q9-provided 4-post racks with vertical cable management system
  • Installation of customer-provided enclosures and custom power circuits
  • Overhead tray for distribution cabling
  • Two independent power sources
  • 100% power availability warranty