Update July 20, 2010

A Lot of stuffs and progress has happened again in the datacenter buildout! We’re certainly excited as we are getting inch closer to our soft opening dates which could be as soon as next week! Some of the progress that has happened since last update are:

1. Our Fire sprinkler system installation has been completed. The Vesda system is in place, the monitoring systems are in place and we are awaiting fire marshall inspection later this week to complete our occupancy permit.

2. We have put up some colo fences in parts of our datacenter

3. The dark fiber run going back to our HQ in Westin Building downtown seattle has been completed

4. The mechanical main duct installation has been completed! Boy was our mechanical contractor super fast and efficient in installing these

5. Our network gears are being setup now as we speak. We will be running fully meshed Cisco powered backbone network with border, core, distribution and access layer.

6. We also have words that our Liebert CRAC Units (HVAC) has arrived 3 weeks early and they are already in town. We are expecting delivery as soon as mid of this week!

7. Yes we are fully energized on the power front. The Transfer switch, main panel, UPS, PDUs and installed electrical outlets are all ready to power up those servers

Did I say that we are excited again?

The Curvy Main power conduit installation has been completed with tons of copper inside them that has been fully energized!

The UPS has also been energized last Friday and already serving power to our PDUs.

All the main power panel installation has been completed. The final product on our phase 1 Installation looks currently looks like this.

Notice the small little white square thingy in the middle of the pic? That is an iPhone to give you an idea of the size of the casing for what would be our exhaust fans. We are putting in big-assed fans in here to suck out all the hot air!

First Ladder rack on top of our networking panels have been installed!

Yeah, we love Chatsworth Stuffs

This bad boy was one of the culprit for the delay of our electrical install. However, we hope that having this Kirk Key system installed provide redundant generators support will prove worth it one day.

Since our mechanical permit was issued last week, we have proceeded with the installation of the Main Duct that will tie our HVAC Units. We designed an oversized duct in order to be able to push those air around or datacenter floors.

First colocation fence has been installed. Thanks to the 4 crews that have been working hard over the weekend to get this installed.

First look at contiguous cabinets inside our datacenter. Any takers?

Very nice servertech switched PDU that we will be using throughout the datacenter.

208A outlets have been installed to facilitate our networking equipments.

After long wait, the VESDA (Very Early Warning Smoke Detection Solution) system is finally fully installed.

Sprinker communication system is also up and running now.

The infamous VESDA orange tube that runs throughout our datacenter sampling air.

You sniff? This little hole does! What an amazing environmental monitoring technology!

This bundle of cable is one of the most important milestone in our datacenter buildout. This is our dark fiber connectivity back to the Westin Building that will allow fiber connectivity between our routing equipments. Customer will also be able to get a transport back to the Westin Building MMR, effectively making our datacenter to be a carrier neutral facility.

Yes the CAT generator has been here for 2 weeks now. We are expecting these to be turned up sometime late this week after we have passed the final fire marshall inspection.

What a beautiful day! This is also a view that shows our datacenter building is higher than the I-5 freeway in the background