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Building Details
-12" reinforced pre-cast concrete walls with joints reinforced and tested to 200+ MPH winds
-Dry membrane, double concrete roofing system to maximize tear off resistance, no roof penetrations in machine occupied areas
-Build to suit up to 20,000 square feet of additional data center space on property
-Facility is 73,000 square feet total and slated to open in Q2 2017

Power
-Power Density up to 225 watts/square foot
-Redundant power utility feeds delivered underground to eliminate outages due to wind, snow and ice
-S+1 diversified electrical within the building utilizing five distinct UPS, Generator and ATS systems
-On-site diesel generators (24-hour capacity) with 4.5 MW of on-site power generation capability
-Iowa power costs among the lowest in the nation

Cooling
-Cooling through packaged HVAC units located at the side of the facilities to minimize roof penetrations
-Facility #1 has up to 240 tons of cooling capacity per data center quadrant in an N+1 configuration
-Future build-outs will take advantage of Iowa's annual 1,100 Cooling Degree Days to lower power costs and offer some of the lowest PUEs in the nation

Security & Compliance
-Data center physical security complies with PCI-DSS v3.0, HIPAA / HITECH guidelines, and is audited annually using SSAE 16 SOC I, 2 & 3 Type II and ISO 20000 & 27001 requirements
-Bulletproof glass at main entrance, secure check-in desk, Man traps, biometrics and tailgate sensors for all data center entrances
-Closed-circuit TV monitored 24/7/365 with video archiving
-24×7 manned Network Operations Center with engineering staff performing hourly walk-arounds

Connectivity
-Carrier-agnostic connectivity through partnerships with:
   -Sprint, CenturyLink, WindStream, Cox, AT&T, Mediacom, TW Telecom, XO Communications, Level 3, Aureon and Bandwidth.com
-Data Centers are located within 1 mile of major telecommunication highway. Dark Fiber and Lit Services are available from a multitude of providers including:
   -Verizon, Sprint, ATT, Century Link, Windstream, Unite, PinPoint, Level 3, Aureon, Mediacom, US Networks, Cogent and more
-Private fiber services linking LightEdge data centers to Denver, CO and Chicago, IL (Cermac) for large scale Internet and carrier network integration
-Dual OC-48 SONET rings and flexible private metro Ethernet capability up to 10Gb
-Redundant DWDM Based fiber ring with expansion of up to 400 Gbps of usable bandwidth
-Redundant Cisco-based MPLS Network

Cloud
-Colocation customers may take advantage of LightEdge managed cloud IT services to augment their hosted platforms. Cloud Services include:
   -Private and hybrid cloud computing, managed storage and backup, managed firewall, and unified communications
-LightEdge engineering staff is able to take shipments, install equipment and act as remote hands
-Each LightEdge data center, which hosts LightEdge cloud services, meets or exceeds the concurrent maintainability requirements of the Tier III Uptime Institutes standards.

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