Our colocation sites bring together the best accommodation for your needs. Building sizes vary from 2.8 x 2.8msq for fibre distribution cabins to 7.2m x 4.2m for equipment accommodation modules (EAM). Surf offer housing for single racks or multiple racks – either supplied by us or provided by you - plus caged areas or a designated cabin including street side furniture if required. If it’s more space you need, you can choose your own bespoke size of cabin. Each EAM building is made from structural steel and insulated to a high U-value.

There's a steel base decked with an antistatic tiled internal false floor able to take loads of 8kN/msq.

Conforming to the highest of standards, our sites are fitted with state of the art security and fire detection systems. Power is delivered by landlord supply via a sub meter or provision can be made for you to have your own metered supply.

We take systems security seriously, and that starts with the sites themselves; many operate to 27001 standards and have secure perimeter fences. For your protection all our sites are surrounded with secure perimeter fencing, plus external proximity lighting and monitored intruder systems. Government standard locks are used on all buildings, cabins, cages and racks. Only authorised personnel (yours or ours) can get close and admission is strictly controlled via secure key issue or supervised access any time of the day or night.

Power is all important; you want to be sure everything keeps working and keep your systems running. Our sites are designed to run 24 x 7 every day of the year. Typically our sites are adjacent to Western Power Distribution electricity substations and provide high capacity mains AC power in 3-phase or single phase as required. Alternatively, optional DC supply or UPS facilities are available.

In the unlikely event of a power interruption, on-site automatic standby generators kick in to provide 72 hours of support without refuelling. There’s no worry about running out of fuel though, there’s 24 x 7 monitoring and a 3-hour response window for refuelling and repair to ensure that never happens.

Never too hot, and never too cold, the temperature inside the buildings, cabins and cages is maintained at a nominal 21^oC, keeping equipment running at optimum performance and ensuring you stay sweat-free as well as your kit.

You wouldn’t want a fire to stop your business from working and neither would we, so we put fire detection at the top of our priority list. Ionising smoke detectors are installed at every location. At our major network locations the BS5306 standard SM200 fire suppressant system is used to suppress any hint of fire within seconds thereby minimising the risk of damage. We’re not suggesting you try this, but rest assured the suppressant itself is harmless to equipment.

You have a particular telecoms provider you want to run your systems through? Or even more than one? That’s fine by us – our sites are totally carrier neutral. There’s complete diversity of cable routing with access to Surf Telecom’s expansive fibre optic network either for dark fibre or for managed bandwidth services. For ultimate connectivity there’s space too for satellite and antenna equipment on our roofs or towers.

And keeping cable and fibre optics separate is no trouble with our cable management basket trays.

Our sites operate 24 x 7 because we know that’s how you operate. That means there’s constant monitoring of safety and security, plus complete management of the environmental conditions in all the buildings, cabins and cages. Should you need them, Surf’s standby managers are available anytime for advice or equipment support. Depending on your level of service agreement our engineers can help with planned (and unplanned) maintenance when your engineers are working on something else.

Number of sites:

• Fibre-enabled               23
• Colocation facilities       19
• Radio mast capacity      83