A DAY in the LIFE of the DATA CENTRE | NETWORK TOUR with ASH & JAMES!

fantastic hi guys welcome back to the channel I'm ash this is James with the SDM here at custodian we're following up on a comment from my last video from fish bait 0 75 saying a networked all would be great explaining where your feed to come in from the outside world how they get given out to the racks and as you'll carry a neutral how customers can pick and have to carry it of their choice to live it to their rack so we're going to show you exactly that today we're actually stood on one of our fiber ducts today which is where some of our fibers come into the datacenter onto one of our data floors so they're gonna give you a quick tour of where they come in different locations around the site and then how they actually get to the data center this is just one of the three diversely rooted bt ducts we actually have on site they're all routed from separate exchanges to give us maximum diversity and security in the case of say outside works or something happening in underground that's out of our control and we've got obviously other carriers on site we've got bt not virgin CenturyLink sfe so what we'll do is going stems from another ducts see what the SSD ducts looks like and what will its gonna have so this is one of the SSC ducks sse have their own chosen their own diversity rooted mapping to the site so there's more than one route in earth and this is only one of them and then what we'll do is we'll go and take you inside for DC and show you where the cables actually come inside because they lose a bit different I can't lift up these for you that I can show you what it looks like under the floor so we'll see you in the decent cool so in the DC now what I'll do is I'll lick one the tiles as I explained outside show you one of the fibers into coming into the DC so what you can see here is this is one of the fiber cables that comes in it's a shielded armored cable the yellow one and then it goes into this big black box and in that black box is a a splice tray and then what happens is they splice that fiber in the DC onto the fiber coming outside and then it travels through the DC to the providers rack I can't open it for you because it's not ours but this is what it looks like essentially and there are multiple of these underneath the floor but little is the easiest one for me to get to you to show you so what would do now is we'll go to the provider rack i'll show you what a provider rack looks like and talk about how some of the fiber services actually come in all there so I was going to show you in front of one of their carrier rats the country we've actually got someone in at the moment working on a carrier rack specifically so we're just going to come back to that later on in the video to show you we're going to move on connected now so we're at one of our patterning locations and this location brings in some of the fibers from outside and customer fibers towards our equipment specifically and so that's what this allows us to do is get between different sites within the data center so we can connect to all the efferent rooms that we have as we quite have quite a few floors this is one of the essential parts to the infrastructure that we have here so if we now go to some of our equipment we can talk a bit more about how it eventually actually gets there [Music] so what we have here is a newly deploys customer rep and we're delivering some fibers to them what we do is we drop the fibers into the rack from the trays above that you can see above us we also drop copper into the racks as well so depending on what the customer orders is and what they get and we can deliver any type of fiber multimode single mode and any kind of connectors they like need to ask so if he was coming from the cusp in Iraq to the carrier rack all that happens is we run those cables up onto the trays and just take the most diverse weave possible to the carrier rack if they need to be diverse specifically so they so they take two connections we can also run connections under the floor as well or we can take a different tray route around the building as there just depends on what it is that they're requirements are in addition to what James has explained it I just want to explain something about the different carriers we have on site the carries that bring fibers in they pay to have roads dug out fibers port in they like it they eat chance they do all of that but we can also provide that service if you have a carrier that you need to get into your rack here in main stone or even at one of the one of our other pots is easy enough to do because we can pick them up in London for instance and then using our thousand fibre network at a fraction of the cost get it back to your app because we've got a dark fiber network you could have for instance Colt on the end of this fiber but Colt haven't had to dig up a road I've tried to dig up our car parts that much but they're Iraqi with their own kits and lights it we're doing all that and we can get it back to your rep to live it on whatever presentation you need a fear hunt you make copper or a team big fiber you know we could we can present it how you want to make it happen through our network and the cost is significantly cheaper than you ordered a circular ten grand setup plus X amount of month or whatever so it's always an option that you've got with us using our private network okay so we're back now after the engineers have been doing what they're doing we're in front of one of the racks one of our providers and as you saw before underneath the floor we have that large splice blocks well one of those cables ends up underneath one of these racks what happens is they then take those fiber cables into further splice box within the rack and then they're then spliced onto another type of fiber Kay which then go into MTES those NTAs are just like little cards that go into a multi chassis and you can pick up a fiber or copper connection from those and then that's how the carrier delivers the circuit onto a piece of cable for a customer so the same kind of thing that we do where we deliver our cable to a customer with the service on the same thing provider so all we doing is if there's an order we need to just run ak-12 top of those cable trays we showed you from the customer rep to the service bride rack and plug it in for them okay so we're back at where we started off today back at the BT Ducks it's worth noting that Kyle Sounion have our own dark fiber that goes all the way up to London diversely and we actually lie to ourselves using a DWDM system so we have complete control over that diverse fiber connection up to London in London we have multiple sites across London itself and we liked each part of that dark fiber network between the sites what that allows us to do is we can connect whatever we like to those dark fibers and get it back to main stone or another place in London so for example if you're here in Maidstone and you can't get connectivity from a specific supplier we can pick it up in London for you and then deliver it to Maidstone however you need it to be whether that be on a hundred maker circuit one gig ten gig whatever it is that you need that's what we do okay so may or may not have noticed the satellite dish is set just behind us here these are actually connected to customers in the datacenter some of these broadcast locally some of them broadcast further afield one of which is actually broadcasting to Australia so we connect these up to customer racks the coax is go under the floor into their rack and they do all their stuff with various bits of kit a server a skybox whatever they then connect it up and just broadcast over them so it's something that we're still in use they use today and we've got more available if a customer ever needs that we can also get more in should the need arise so hopefully that's giving you a bit of an insight into the network the diversity how the routes work how fibers come into the building if you've got any more requests like that as you've seen we're more than happy to kind of accommodate what people want to see so let us know in the comments below if there's anything else you want to see stuff that we haven't done already so just check mark my channel just in case you've already covered it so yeah thanks for watching leave a like leave a comment share it and we'll see in the next video just guys

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Published: Thu Sep 05 2019