Inside Telstra's Docklands datacentre
Summary: The London datacentre is being revamped to bring full hot and cold aisle containment to every floor, with the aim of increasing power efficiency without forcing customers to change hardware
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Telstra's rack enclosure
Telstra is in the process of revamping a 10-year-old building shell in London to support a modern high-efficiency datacentre, with the help of consulting company On365.
The Australia-based telecoms and colocation company has datacentres across the world. Its Docklands-based facility is targeted at customers who need guaranteed connectivity, as it links to Telstra's 400Gbps dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) London fibre ring.
The first stage of the revamp is bringing hot aisle and cold aisle containment to every floor of the nine-floor datacentre to maximise power usage effectiveness (PUE). As it stands, the PUE of the centre is 1.6, as Telstra has already modified five of the floors, with another four of the floors to go.
Photo credit: Jack Clark
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