• Building a data center from the ground up is an enormous undertaking — which is why companies are increasingly handing the job over to colocation providers . While Forsythe drew upon its years of experience to make the overall decisions and manage every aspect , it also drew upon the strengths of a team of mission-critical partners .
• To begin with , Environmental Systems Design Global helped design and Turner Construction constructed Forsythe ’ s innovative Retail + facility that achieved not only Uptime Institute Tier III certification of constructed facility for redundancy and resiliency , but also LEED Gold Certification for energy efficiency and reduced environmental impact , each on first inspection .
• ComEd worked with Forsythe from the early planning stages to ensure that Forsythe Data Centers ’ power and redundancy requirements could be supported .
• Sunesys deployed a dedicated , dark fiber ring from Forsythe ’ s enterprise colocation facility to 350 E . Cermak , providing secure , private diverse paths to the carrier-neutral environment in the downtown Chicago area .
• Ciena ® provided high-capacity , low-latency connectivity , secure , wire-speed encrypted connectivity solutions to Forsythe Data Centers for the dual , diverse metro fiber network connecting it to 350 East Cermak in Chicago .
• Dura-line provided an innovative air-jetted fiber ( blown fiber ) infrastructure system that enables continuous fiber to run throughout the facility with zero points of network failure , virtually unlimited fiber and bandwidth capacity , real-time futureproofing , no end to the fiber lifecycle , and up to 90 % savings in time and labor for fiber installs .
• Anixter provided a wide array of product options for fiber , copper , patch panels , power strips , cabinet distribution units and other data center infrastructure components , as well as a product demonstration lab and consultative services to assist with product evaluation and selection .
• And last , but far from least , Emerson Network Power provided a number of innovative power and cooling technologies , including new , beta-stage Lithium-Ion UPS battery technology that Forsythe Data Centers is piloting at its facility .