Excellent Location:
- Located just minutes from I-495, I-95, MD-1, and MD-212, BiEx is conveniently situated along the major metro and long haul fiber routes.
- The facility sits outside of all known disaster zones and above the 500-year flood plain.
- Tier-IV certified by the Federal Reliability Certification Board
and the Uptime Council. (TIA-942)
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Connectivity
- Connected by multiple diverse fiber rings to over 220 area buildings including all major carrier hotels and POPs
- Major hub for 800 miles of fiber operated by AiNET.
- Directly on-net with Abovenet, Cavalier Telecom, Verizon (ILEC and MCI), and others.
- Diverse. concrete encased-laterals to BiEx-owned "meet-me" manholes.
- Physically connected to a Verizon central office with multiple Telco vendors.
- Multiple Dark Fiber Vendors available
- Multiple 10Gb/s BGP4 IP connections to major facilities allow for IP and MPLS connectivity
- Facility-wide 36" ladder rack for cabling
- 1G and 10G peering and exchange fabric for Voice, Cellular and IP traffic.
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Space Options
- Shared colocation cabinets (by-the-U), locking cabinets, telco racks are available at all times.
- Cages and private suites as well as ultra-secure SCIF space available to meet custom requirements
- High floor capacity and on-slab construction for wide array of loading options
- Backup/Emergency/Full time control centers and office space available
- Telco and Datacenter grade space available
- Equipment Storage options
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Power Delivery Choices
- AC Power delivery @ 110VAC in 5, 10, 15, 20, 30, 40 and 50 Amp service levels
- AC Power delivery @ 208VAC in 15, 30, 40, 50 through 100 Amp service levels
- Three-phase 277V, 480V and 13.2KV power available
- DC Power delivery @ -48VDC up to 4000 Amp service
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Power Infrastructure
- 2N Power System Design
- Multiple Caterpillar diesel generators on-site
- Over 3000 KW active power generation capacity on-site
- Multiple 13.2KV Utility Feeders @ 1.5MW from different power substations
- Multiple Automatic Transfer Switches (ATS) with manual bypass
- Chemical Energy Storage Facility with live gas evacuation system
- 3 Separate Powerware 9315 500KvA N+1 UPS systems provide protected A, B, and C power feeds.
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Environmental Controls
- Over 30, 25 ton CCU precision HVAC (air conditioning) units
- 3N Cooling System
- Hermetically sealed York reciprocating chillers with digital controls
- Environmentally friendly, R-138 units
- Humidity controlled at 50% +/- 5%
- Temperature controlled at 72 degrees F +/- 2 degrees
- 3 250 ton Evapco evaporative cooling towers for forced heat rejection
- Free-cooling system for additional utility cooling
- Water detection system
- Seismic anomaly recording system
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Fire Detection and Suppression
- Analog addressable fire detection system in all areas (smoke and heat with manual pull units)
- Very early smoke detection and alarm system (VESDA) in the return air-flow of CCUs.
- Gas supression system usin HALON in a distributed storage configuration to critical and selected operational areas
- Sprinklers in corridors, media storage and selected plant rooms with water or HALON and monitoring as required
- Smoke and gas extraction systems
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Physical Security
- Premises controlled by 24x7 on-site security personnel
- Access control using electronic key card system
- Intruder and access alarms on select areas
- Multiple CCTV cameras (interior and exterior)
- Secure managed delivery and loading areas
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Beltsville,
Maryland 