Sterling Network Services: Secondary Data Center to Secure Your Data Assets and Maintain Business Continuity

Making a "buy vs. build" decision as it relates to a primary or secondary data center involves analysis along four key areas. These factors include:

1. Scale / Overall Size
2. Disaster Recovery & Avoidance
3. Continuity of Operations
4. Performance / Power

These considerations can become costly for many business entities especially when compounded with the time and resources necessary to manage a data center. Sterling Network Services, LLC (Sterling), offers a primary and secondary data center facility with a secure colocation environment for your web and data servers. A wide range of space options from cabinets and cages, to ample power and bandwidth is also available. Sterling's state-of-the-art data center features redundant power feeds ensure uninterrupted power. Unique systems architecture offers a constant perfectly conditioned environment. Call upon Sterling to house your critical applications and/or provide you with primary or secondary data center management. Sterling Network Service's back-up data center solution provides its clients carrier neutral access to almost every major (40+) telecommunications network in the United States. This includes nine of the top ten best peered Internet backbones on Earth.

Secondary Data Center Features: Your Data Back-Up Advantage

Sterling provides secondary data center services with a state-of-the-art colocation environment in a secure facility. Most importantly, we offer 100% uptime. We meet your demands regarding neutrality, interconnections, telecom carriers and service provider needs when it comes to network access- we have the clients and reputation to prove it!

Our Secondary Data Center Features:

• Access- direct connections with lower costs and an increase in price/performance metrics.
• Neutrality- carrier neutral, network-neutral and protocol neutral.
• Interconnections- cross-connections to any carrier with dedicated cabling, testing, tagging and termination.
• Telecom Carriers & Service Providers- over 35+ major carriers and service providers including dark fiber providers and other networks.

Every Sterling solutions provides a 30-day installation guarantee, guaranteed 100% power/uptime and internet availability, all fiber optic connections, multiple carrier neutral connections and much more! Clients also get a choice of other services including colocation, shared data center, and customized cages, suites, carrier hotels and enterprise centers. We have solutions for all of your back-up location needs. Contact Sterling Network Services today to learn more about our carrier neutral Tier 1 (And Tier 4!) data center features and advantages. Not only do we guarantee 100% uptime, but we guarantee great service and knowledgeable staff to help you in your primary data center decision. Contact us today for more information or for a quote.

A Tier 4 Data Center with a Wholly Secure Environment

A Tier 4 data center from Sterling Network Services offers secure colocation and data/server storage space. The more mission critical the application is, the more redundancy, robustness, and security required. With a wide range of space options available, we can offer everything from standard and customized cabinets and cages, to ample power and bandwidth choices. Data centers like Sterling's are classified by Tiers, with Tier 1 being the most basic and inexpensive, and Tier 4 being the most robust and costly. Sterling's state-of-the-art data center's features and advantages are truly the best in the Southwest. Our facility offers the following features and much more:

1. Primary Power- Electrical service consisting of eight 2,000kva 480-volt transformers for 16,000 amps.
2. Emergency Power- Multiple diesel generators each 1.5Mw w/ power distributed via 480V, 3 phase, 4 wire bus duct.
3. Security- Biometric, physical and other access control devices throughout the facility. Not to mention the concrete walls, floors and ceilings and more!

We are the right place to house your critical data and hardware management or provide you with a primary or secondary managed data center and colocation services.

A Tier 1 data center is not required to have redundant power and cooling infrastructures, but Sterling Network Service's managed data center does. In contrast, a Tier 4 facility must have redundant systems for power and cooling, with multiple distribution paths that are active and fault tolerant. Sterling offers its clients a carrier-neutral network to almost every major telecommunications carrier in the United States and is a fully integrated Tier 4 facility. This also includes nine of the top ten best peered Internet backbones on earth. Many other networks are available through Sterling Network Services including private, public, research, dark fiber networks and others. Furthermore, access should be controlled with biometric readers and single-person entryways, gaseous fire suppression is required, and the facility can permit no more than 0.4 hours of downtime per year.

Tier 4 Data Center Features and Advantages

Clearly, Sterling offers premiere Tier 4 data center services. With a top-of-the-line facility that offers 100% uptime, Features and Advantages of our Managed Secondary Data Center:

• Access to direct connections with lower costs and an increase in price/performance metrics.
• Carrier-neutral, network-neutral and protocol neutral.
• Cross-connections to any carrier with dedicated cabling, testing, tagging & termination.
• Over 35+ major carriers and service providers including dark fiber providers and other networks.

The Sterling Managed Data Center Complex offers all of this and more. Every Sterling solution provides a 30-day installation guarantee, guaranteed 100% power and internet availability, all fiber optic connections, multiple carrier neutral connections and more! Contact Sterling Network Services today to learn more about secondary data center features and advantages.