The Lunar3 Facility
Situated in East Manchester, Lunar3 is a multi-storey data centre facility offering geographically disparate colocation options for clients from central Manchester. The site has gated controlled access and is well positioned for clients attending via car with ample parking available. Easily accessed on the main outbound route from the centre of Manchester, Lunar3 offers low-latency connectivity from all major locations to our metro network.
Lunar3 is a great location with additional tier 1 carriers in the process of bringing their networks into the site.
Address:
545 Hyde Road,
Manchester,
M12 5NQ
Gross size of data centre (m2): 836, Net customer space (m2): 500
Building type: Purpose Built Data Centre Building
Building Tenure: Freehold
Situated in East Manchester
Highly Resilient
Highly Accredited
Carrier Neutral
Gated Secure Access
Lunar 3 Technical Specifications
Number of data floors: 4
Number of IT zones: 3
Maximum floor load capacity (kg/m2): 1000
Maximum raised access floor height (mm): 500
Raised floor to ceiling height (meters): 3
Number of passenger lifts: 1
Number of goods lifts: 1
Good list maximum load (tonnes): 1
Separate delivery bays: 1
Target PUE: 1.3
Type of Security System: Proximity access card and PIN
Full internal and external CCTV
Audited access procedure
Electronic access gate
Full perimeter security
High sensitivity smoke detection system: Yes
Type of sire suppression system: Automatic/Manual (FM200)
Type of cooling system: DX CRAC units
Maximum cooling capacity (MW): 1.2
Cooling redundancy: N+1
CCUs or in-row cooling: CCU
Number of independent supplies into building: 2
From how many substations: 1
Total incoming feed capacity (MVA): 2
Diverse power route: 2
Generator fuel at full load (hours): 48
UPS type: Static
UPS autonomy (minutes): 25
UPS capacity (kW): 1200
UPS redundancy: N+1
Generator redundancy: N+1
Generator capacity (MVA): 2
Number of diverse entry points into building: 2
Number of meet me rooms: 1
Carriers: 3+
Conference Rooms
Restrooms
Client WiFi
ISO27001
Information Security Management
ISO9001
Quality Management
ISO14001
Environmental Management
PCIDSS
Payment card industry data security standards
Lunar 3 Carrier List
Lunar 3 is a highly connected carrier-neutral ecosystem with a large number of global carriers, tier 2 providers and dark fibre providers.
Located in the UK’s second most connected city, and fully diverse from London with direct fibre routes out to Europe and the USA bypassing the London fibre networks.
Lunar 3 has two duct entry points into the building meaning many of the carriers are able to provide diverse network routes
Lunar 3 also has direct dark fiber access to Lunar 1 and 2 meaning we can cross connect clients to any of the on-net carriers within.
