Host Leader utilizes one of North America's greatest datacenters, to house our high-powered servers. "Net1" offers the secure, stable, and blisteringly fast environment required to meet Host Leader's needs.

Data Center Location: Galleria Area, Houston, TX
The datacenter facility sits atop multiple power grids driven by TXU electric, with PowerWare UPS battery backup power and dual diesel generators onsite. Our HVAC systems are condenser units by Data Aire to provide redundancy in cooling coupled with nine managed backbone providers. Twelve more third party backbone providers are available in the building via cross connect. Fire suppression includes a pre-action dry pipe system including VESDA (Very Early Smoke Detection Apparatus) with over 700 smoke detectors between the two facilities.

• 22,000 sq. ft. facility
• 18,000 sq. ft. of raised floor
• (12) 26-ton Data Air AC units
• Very Early Smoke Detection Apparatus (VESDA)
• Pre-action dry pipe sprinkler system
• Over 220 smoke detectors in an integrated system
• Simplex security badge entry/exit on all doors to facility
• TXU fault tolerant electrical grid
• 2000 amps of 480v input power
• 1 main transfer switch
• (2) 500KVA Powerware UPS units with 90 batteries per unit
• Standalone PDUs at each cabinet row
• 1.5-megawatt generator (2200-gallon tank)
• DataTrax monitoring software for all data center infrastructure

Network Infrastructure
Our network architecture utilizes the Enterprise routing and switching engines from Juniper and Cisco. We utilize Juniper M20 routers as border routers, Cisco 6500 series switches in our distribution layer and Cisco 6500 switches in our aggregation layers, and Cisco 3500 and 2900 series switches at the customer layer. Our network is fully meshed and redundant with 9 backbone providers.

Network	Building Fiber	Backbone Carriers	Access
Cisco Certified Network Cisco 6500 series distribution routing switched Cisco 6500 series aggregation switches for customer access Juniper M20 border routers 100% uptime SLA utilizing JSRP/BGP	OC48 SONET Ring - SBC OC48 SONET Ring - Time Warner OC48 SONET Ring - XO Communications OC48 SONET Ring - MCI OC48 SONET Ring - Looking Glass OC48 SONET Ring - Broadwing	1 Gbps Direct Fiber - AT&T 2 Gbps Direct Fiber - AboveNet 1 Gbps Direct Fiber - Broadwing 1 Gbps Direct Fiber - Global Crossing 2 Gbps Direct Fiber - Level3 1 Gbps Direct Fiber - nLayer 2 Gbps Direct Fiber - Sprint 1 Gbps Direct Fiber - Time Warner 1 Gbps Direct Fiber - UUNET 1 Gbps Direct Fiber - Verio 2 Gbps Direct Fiber - Cogent	T3 and T1 Access - EPGN T3 and T1 Access - SBC T3 and T1 Access - Time Warner T3 and T1 Access - XO Communications T3 and T1 Access - MC