Teledata, Delta House, South Manchester Data Centre

Colo-X analysis

Even though the Teledata data centre is located 10km to the south of central Manchester it is now becoming an established network ecosystem, especially since LINX (London Internet Exchange) established their 4^th Manchester site here in early 2021 and the direct carrier count is now 19 networks.

Besides offering geographic diversity to all the other Manchester data centres in Media City or on the Science Park, Teledata also offers a very different choice to the large global or national operators who now control the other Manchester sites. Teledata are particularly well suited to smaller retail  rack customers who are also attracted by attractive commercial terms and no recurring cross-connect fees, a rare feature for a network hub data centre.

With significant new capacity (1000 racks/4MW) to come in late 2022 Teledata looks set to see continued growth.

Teledata, Delta House, South Manchester facility description

Formerly a regional office for oil major Shell, Teledata’s Delta House is located 1okm to the south of central Manchester and only 2km from Manchester Airport in the suburb of Wythenshaw. The fully owned and operated facility is a mixed use 70,000 sq ft 1960’s office building with around 10,000 sq ft currently built out on the ground floor as dedicated colocation space, supporting around 400 racks, though expanding all the time. The size of the building provides ample scope for expansion of data centre capacityas well as ability to offer a combination of colocation and office accomodation to customers when requred.

At 400 racks capacity the focus is very much on retail colocation customers taking 1-2 racks, part racks (quarter and half) and the largest customer is around 50 racks or 250kW, but the operator is now poised to deliver a further 400 racks in an adjoining building as a completely new facility, commencing from late 2022 onwards. Teledata also has a growing role as an “edge” data centre.

Power densities are from 2kW to 4 or 5kw as standard per full rack. For power provision the building is supplied from its own 11kV sub-station and power to the rack backed up by 2(N+N) UPS and generators. A 100% SLA on power is offered. Cooling by N+1 CRAC units. FM200 fire suppression.

The site is also ideal for Disaster Recovery (DR) services and also supports a wide variety of office tenants over the six upper floors including law firms, healthcare and of course IT/hosting companies taking advantage of both office and data centre under one roof together with overall site security.

Having opened for data centre use in 2007 the carrier list is now 19 networks including fibre from Zayo, EuNetworks, BT, Hibernia Atlantic (now GTT), Level3 (now Lumen), SSE, Vodafone(C+W) and VirginMedia as well as a host of smaller ISPs and networks, not forgetting LINX with some 15 ports now active here (out of some 140 across the whole of Manchester). The height of the building makes it ideal for wireless network operators with clear line of sight to central Manchester.

Teledata offers ISO9001, 27001 and PCI DSS accreditations.

The site is expected to see significant new capacity towards the end of 2022 as the two floor building next door to Delta House is converted to data centre use, with plans to offer 1000 racks or 4MW of new data centre capacity.

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