Mutalis runs on its own servers, located within a carrier-class data center in the San Francisco / Silicon Valley area, Mutalis is directly connected to many of the world’s Tier 1 backbones including UUNet, NTT/Verio, Level 3, AboveNet, and peering at PAIX, the original Internet Exchange. Supported 24x7 with highly trained staff and physical protection, water-free fire suppression, UPS power protection, and diesel generator backups.

Construction
The data center is located in the San Francisco Telecom Center, conveniently located just south of San Francisco’s Financial District. This 100% occupied telecom building also houses AT&T and MCI super nodes. The building was originally built in 1924 as a Marine Corps Depot for heavy equipment, so the five story structure is built of extra-thick, reinforced cast-in-place concrete. The building was seismically retrofitted in 1999 to convert the existing warehouse into a Telecom Center in accordance with San Francisco’s Uniform Building Code, and then retrofitted a second time to exceed those standards by tenants AT&T and MCI in accordance with their stringent telecom carrier standards.

Infrastructure
The data center power is fed by conditioned UPS (uninterruptible power supply) electricity, with redundant feeds from dual 2 Megawatt generators that also support critical MCI phone switches. One generator can power the entire building for several days time, and there is 20,000 gallons of reserve diesel fuel on site. These generators are tested monthly per stringent MCI protocols.

Fiber and Bandwidth Providers
The data center operates its own screaming-fast network™, featuring multi-homed bandwidth with connections to over 40 networks. The data center route traffic over major Tier 1 Internet backbones such as UUNet/MCI, Level 3, NTT/Verio, and AboveNet, with no low-quality bandwidth and plenty of network capacity for maximum reliability and scalability.

Cooling
The data center has tremendous cooling infrastructure, with dual redundant chilled water supply loops and multiple Liebert air conditioning units pumping cold air into the pressurized raised floor of the data center. Chilled water is provided by the roof cooling towers, which also provide chilled water for MCI’s critical systems. Additional chilled water supply and return valves are already plumbed every thirty feet along the perimeter of the data center, allowing for rapid installation of additional Liebert units should increased cooling capacity be required.

Fire Suppression
The state-of-the-art fire suppression has three levels of protection. Halon fire extinguishers are located throughout the data center. There is two stage TotalPac double interlocked dry-pipe preaction system, with tightly defined zones to isolate and extinguish any fires without affecting surrounding areas. This system must detect both smoke and heat to be triggered. A grid of 200 sensors on the ceiling and 200 under the raised floor plus “VESDA” AnaLaser-brand laser smoke sensors that are 10,000 times more sensitive than conventional smoke detectors and capable of detecting incipient smoldering protect the data center.