Our servers are located at the NAP of the Americas
The NAP of the Americas, owned by Terremark Worldwide, is one of the most significant telecommunications projects in the world. This state-of-the-art Network Access Point (NAP) located in Miami, Florida, provides highly secure and reliable Facility Services including Colocation and Peering, Managed Services and Dedicated Hosting Services.
The NAP of the Americas was the first purpose-built, carrier-neutral NAP and is the only facility of its kind specifically designed to link Latin America with the rest of the world.
The NAP of the Americas provides you with a secure, reliable carrier-neutral facility with direct backbone access to the world's major carriers. Via this massive connectivity, Terremark can deliver to millions of businesses and consumers virtually anywhere in the world any available service from any network service provider in the world.
Strategic Location
Miami has been ranked as one of the top-five best interconnected cities in the world, ahead of San Francisco, Chicago and Washington, D.C. Terremark's NAP of the Americas makes Miami the only city in the U.S. where Optical, Ethernet, MPLS, Voice and Internet traffic is handed off in a single location.
NAP of the Americas is located in downtown, Miami, an area that has numerous telecommunications carrier facilities, fiber loops, international cable landings and multiple power grids. The convergence of telecommunications infrastructure is why global carriers, ISPs and other Internet-related businesses, educational institutions, and enterprises have chosen to become customers of NAP of the Americas.
Switching the majority of South America, Central America and the Caribbean's layer-1, layer-2 and layer-3 traffic bound to more than 148 countries in the world, NAP of the Americas makes it the unrivaled gateway to the Americas.
Physical Security
The NAP of the Americas has a centrally-located Command Center manned by security personnel 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Security personnel monitor all security cameras, guard building entrance and exit access points, and control key card access to elevators, floors and roof areas. In addition, environmental sensors notify tenants and mobilize rescue in case of emergency.
Structurally, the NAP of the Americas is designed to withstand natural disasters and includes strategic features such as:
- The second floor, where the NAP of the Americas resides, is 32 feet above sea level. The ground level of the building is 14 feet above sea level.
- The state-of-the-art lightning prevention system works in a radius of 300 feet to detract strikes by discharging a static electricity flare.
- Roof slope designed to aid in drainage of floodwater in excess of 100-year storm intensity assisted by 18 rooftop drains
- The building is designed to withstand a Category 5 hurricane with 12 million pounds of roof ballast.
- 12 Million pounds of concrete for roof ballast.
- 7' thick solid concrete exterior panels.
- The building is outside FEMA 500-year designated flood zone.
- The building is outside the Miami-Dade hurricane evacuation zone.
Power
The electrical and mechanical systems at Terremark facilities represent the most advanced and reliable integrated systems of their kind. These systems have proven to be an important differentiator in attracting the Terremark customer base.
- 100% AC or DC power availability guarantee
- Redundant power vaults fed from multiple substations
- Two independent 13,200 volt feeders supply the high voltage switchgear
- Uninterrupted, stable power delivered by 6 HiTEC Continuous Power Systems (CPS) which provide a transfer time 10 times better than a typical UPS power system found in most data centers
- Each HiTEC unit is rated at 1800 kilowatts for a total of 10.8 megawatts of capacity
- Increments of 10 or 20 AMP AC circuit; CPS-backed power
- Increments of 20 AMP -48 Volts DC circuit; A&B feed
Environmental
Custom designed to exceed industry standards, Terremark provides 100% Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for power and environmental systems through a number of redundant subsystems, including power, cooling and fiber trunks from multiple sources.
