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nLighten Data Center

Cologne

Dominated by the twin spires of its famous cathedral, Cologne is the largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia. It is also an important trade city, especially for the automotive, insurance, media and chemical industries, making it a key regional communications hub. The nLighten data center optimally supports this significant industrial heartland and its surrounding areas.

The data center is conveniently located, just off the A4 motorway, 6 km from Cologne city center, and 30 minutes by car from the two nearby airports. The data center has an area of 1960 m², 3000 kW of power, an office area and ample parking space.

Like the other nLighten facilities, the Cologne data center will enable our customers to benefit from a very well-connected, high-availability data center and capable of housing high density cabinets. The data center comes with a number of On-Site Services and a growing eco-system of partners, all there to optimally support our customers IT environment.

Features…

Tier III data center design

Redundant power with independent A and B feeds to each cabinet

On-site backup power generation from renewable sources

Cooling and humidity design complying with ASHRAE A1 allowable category

Design Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) at 1.29

Power designed to a maximum of 20 kW per cabinet on the concrete floor area

Power redundancy at N+1 power

Heat recovery with high export temperature to local heating networks

Access Control and permanent CCTV monitoring with secure archive

Fire suppression equipment in all technical and critical plant areas

Carrier-neutral data center with divers fiber entry points and meet me areas

Directly linked to local MNO and last mile network carriers for low latency performance to wireless and last mile clients

24/7 NOC services, 24/7 access

Conveniently located for easy access by road and public transport

Technical specifications…

Facilities.

1960 m²

of data center space

Power.

3000 kW

of power for IT load

Fiber routes.

ideally situated for regional low latency in Germany, direct fiber and wavelength routes to Düsseldorf, Bonn and Frankfurt and with direct international fiber and wavelength routes to Amsterdam and Brussels