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CASE STUDY
Ensuring service
By Schneider Electric
www.schneider-electric.co.uk
How the IoT and big data are
driving holistic data centre services
for London’s playmakers
IP House is a specialist supplier colocation data centre
services. Located at the edge of London’s financial district
and situated next to the Docklands, it’s an independent and
privately-owned company, founded in 2016, whose main
facility was previously owned by a telecommunications
provider. Since its foundation, IP House has refurbished
the facility as a Cloud and carrier-neutral data centre with
superfast Internet speeds ranging from 10Gb/sec to 100Gb/
sec.
The challenge
As a colocation provider, whose target customers are in
the finance, gaming and managed-services industries, IP
House has to adhere to the highest standards of uptime,
security and resiliency. It has designed and built the
communications, power and cooling infrastructure at its
London facility to provide a competitive and customer-
focused colocation service.
To offer high-end services while remaining price-
competitive, the company follows a ‘pay as you grow’
deployment strategy, scaling up when necessary to add
infrastructure to satisfy customer demand. The 15,000 sq
ft facility has two technical Data Suites, the first of which
is now operational, with plans for the second suite to be
brought online in the future.
Solution approach
Understanding IP Houses need for a scalable, resilient and
secure data centre solution, APC’s Elite Partner Comtec
Power worked with the company to deliver a retrofit and
upgrade project at their London facility. Working with
Comtec enabled IP House to design and build the data
centre to meet the requirements for Tier III classification.
The data centre contains industry-leading infrastructure
solutions including Schneider Electric’s Symmetra UPS,
deployed in an N+1 configuration with 4x 500kVA to deliver
rapidly scalable and resilient power options. In addition, IP
House selected Schneider Electric’s EcoStruxure IT, DMaaS
platform for 24/7 advanced monitoring, management and
data-driven insights. The company has deployed industry-
leading hardware and software products from Schneider
Electric’s EcoStruxure for Data Centers architecture, which is
comprised of three levels; connected products, edge control
software, and cloud-based apps/analytics/services.
Suite A is comprised of 192 racks, all of which are
Schneider Electric’s 48U NetShelter SX enclosures. These
are larger than the standard industry size and allow
the company to offer higher power densities and more
scalability or space for IT equipment to customers. High-
density racks maximise the use of available space in the
data centre and also facilitate the use of containment
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