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SHANGHAI, May 11, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Owned by the Chinese government, Shanghai Data Solution (SDS) built its first small network communications site in 2001, and has grown with China's online economy since then, building data centers including operator has built data centers for the Chinese bank card provider Unionpay, as well as the IDX Blue Light, Jinqiao and Beijing data centers.
Datacenter Dynamics visited the IDX Jinqiao data center in Shanghai, SDS' second big high-tier facility, built after the IDX Blue Light data center. Coming online in 2013, it has a floorspace of 13,000 sq m (about 130,000 sq ft) and embodies some advanced techniques in its construction and operation.
An important milestone
"IDX Jinqiao represents an important milestone in building, operating and maintaining our data centers," Richy Wu, general manager of SDS' operation and service center said.
The center has access to network connections from China Telecom, China Unicom and China Mobile, as well as its own border gateway protocol (BGP), which aims to set up a high-speed transmission network covering the whole Shanghai region.
"Though our IDX Jinqiao Data Center has not gone through Tier IV certification, we invited IBM to do the design and deploy our hardware in accordance with the standards used by international operators and large financial institutions. Redundancy design is applied to all of our systems, from heating and ventilation to power supply and distribution, to avoid any single point of failure and ensure stability of the hosting environment," Mr. Wu commented.
The center mainly provides calculation services to high-end customers including financial institutions, R&D companies and multinational enterprises.
Many Innovations
"Compared with previous data centers built by SDS, the IDX Jinqiao data center has made numerous innovations in power supply, cooling, cabling and access control," said Mr. Wu.
Instead of using traditional rack-mounted static transfer switches (STS), the data center deploys large cabinet-style STS. This means...