Market Overview
Our first Aggregation Edge Data Center serves as a collocation and interconnection hub in Raleigh, North Carolina. Raleigh is the capital city of North Carolina and one of the fastest growing metro locations in the U.S.1 Raleigh is also widely regarded for its rich culture, academic institutions, and access to employment opportunities across industries. In fact, Raleigh and neighboring Chapel Hill and Durham are widely referred to as the “Research Triangle” due to their proximity to major research institutions and technology companies. This draws over 13 million people to visit Raleigh each year and has resulted in numerous publications featuring Raleigh on Top 10 lists, with its high quality of life and favorable business climate.2
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Features and Benefits
Scalable Performance
The Aggregation Edge Data Center in Raleigh provides local IT infrastructure to enable low-latency use cases and has the ability to support a wide range of requirements.
Interconnectivity
Make your connectivity a competitive advantage by leveraging CoreSite's Open Cloud Exchange® (OCX) to connect with public cloud providers and access peering exchanges through the Coresite Any2Exchange® .
Operational Excellence
American Tower Data Centers are designed to deliver an optimal customer experience. Our team of experts provides 24/7/365 customer support and 100% Service Level Agreement (SLA) uptime.
Any2Exchange® is a registered trademark of CoreSite, LLC.
Open Cloud Exchange® is a registered trademark of CoreSite, LLC.
Data Center Specifications
- Space: Up to 16,000 square feet of total facility
- Height: Data center white space has 10 feet clear height
- BMS controls: Environmental and power monitoring
- Access: Two-factor authentication, with card and pin site access
- Surveillance: Multistage security containment systems, with interior and exterior cameras
- Monitoring: National, 24/7/365 Network Operations Center, monitoring for security management
- Life safety: Advanced fire suppression systems
- Power availability: Three-phase AC
- Electrical service: Up to 4MW+ of IT useable power
- Uptime: 100% with concurrently maintainable A/B power design
- Density: 15kW per rack on average
- Resiliency: N+1 generator, UPS and switching
- Internet: Dedicated internet service (Blended IP)
- Resiliency: Neutral host, with multiple points of entry
- Interconnectivity: Customer cross-connects
- Cloud Onramp: Access to OCX
- Environmental: Temperature/humidity monitored, controlled, and managed
- Capacity: Up to 4MW of IT total cooling (N+2 CRAC configuration)
- Systems: Leveraging direct expansion cooling, assisted hot aisle containment
- Remote hands: Configuration, power cycle, and troubleshooting
- Field services: Preventative maintenance and break/fix service
Resources
Data Centers and Edge
Learn more about our Data Center portfolio, which offers a range of space, power, and cooling for modern workloads — interconnected through a common platform.
American Tower Breaks Ground on New Edge Data Center
The new American Tower Edge Data Center in Raleigh, North Carolina—a groundbreaking feat in more ways than one—is the company’s first Data Center in Raleigh and the first in a new class of Data Center offerings for American Tower.
Aggregation Edge Data Centers
Aggregation Edge Data Centers deliver a streamlined connection from the core data center to the edge, where data is generated by end devices.
Access Edge Data Centers
Access Edge Data Centers aim to support ultra-low-latency applications.
