The co-location service facilitates clients who wish to install equipment in a managed facility. HEAnet's co-location room is based in Blanchardstown, Dublin 15. Equipment in the room is directly connected to HEAnet's national backbone, and is served by an excellent suite of environmental, power and management services. In addition to regular IPv4 and IPv6 connectivity, clients may also optionally make use of the HEAnet National Backbone Extension to deploy layer 2 Ethernet circuits between their own network and equipment hosted in the facility, providing high speed LAN interconnections with remote equipment.

The following resources are available as part of the basic service at no additional cost:

• 24 X 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet circuits per 40U cabinet

• 3210 Gigabytes per month transfer

• Native IPv6 Internet connectivity

• Remote and local control of Keyboard, Video & Mouse

• Remote media access - use your local CD/DVD/USB device on your hosted server

• Remote hands and eyes control

• Remote power control

• Layer 2 Ethernet connectivity between hosted equipment and client LAN

• Free initial .ie Domain Registration, reduced registration charges for subsequent .ie domains

• Speed: Fast and reliable connection to Backbone Network

• Reliability: connected to the Irish Research & Education Network in a controlled environment

• Technical Support: 9:00 to 17:30 Monday to Friday

• Free Electronic Mailing List

• Reports, statistics of network usage

If you have any additional services or resources which you require, simply ask us, and we'll be happy to discuss terms and conditions.

Pricing

Cabinet Space

Co-location space is available in Full, Half or Quarter cabinet allotments; that is 40U, 20U or 10U of a standard 19" cabinet. A full cabinet is EUR 12,000, a half cabinet is EUR 6,000 and a quarter cabinet is EUR 3,000 per annum. The minimum order quantity is a quarter cab.

There is also a once off installation charge of EUR 1,000 pro rata.

Power

There is a maximum power allocation per full cabinet of 3.5kW. This is divided up pro-rata for half and quarter cab allotments. There is an A and a B feed to each cab which provides power resilience to equipment with dual power supplies stored within.

Network Ports

Each cabinet (40U) comes with 24 X 10/100/1000 Mbps copper RJ45 Ethernet ports, which are switched to an IP router allocating 24 IP addresses. The minimum order quantity (0.25 cabinet / 10 U) comes with 6 ports and 6 IP addresses.

Bandwidth

IPv4/IPv6 Bandwidth of 3210 GBytes per month is included in basic cost. There is no immediate charge for traffic exceeding this threshold, but clients will be obliged to agree terms and conditions for installations which consistently exceed it. (Basis: 10 Mbps constant * 30.4375 days)

For more information, please drop an email to noc@heanet.ie