Birns Telecommunications Opens New Colocation Data Center Near 'F' Train in New York City

Birns Telecommunications Inc. has opened a new colocation data center in New York. The company, which offers colocation services for the telecom industry, provides infrastructure for moving data off site and is now enabling multiple Internet connections.

The new data center and services enable redundancy on fast and secure data lines. Birns strives to protect critical information at all times through generators and battery backups as well as providing redundancy and power reliability.

The Colocation Data Center in New York City is located near the "F" train, in an easily accessible location for customers throughout the tri-state area. The new center offers low network latency and high bandwidth rates at affordable prices, to ensure customers' operations run smoothly at all times.

Features of Birns' colocation facilities include letting customers bring in their own equipment and feeling confident that their equipment and data are safe. Facilities offer uninterrupted power, dedicated bandwidth and 24x7 security and monitoring. The company also offers 24x7 customer support as well as specialists and network engineers on staff to ensure everything runs smoothly at all times.

Additional benefits include 99.999 percent uptime and a full staff of security personnel, including video surveillance. Birns has implemented a number of security features for its facilities like fingerprint scanning at all entry doors, ensuring physical premises security. They also guarantee a temperature of 72 degrees F within the facilities, plus or minus eight degrees. Standard equipment cabinets and relay racks are provided as needed, as is AC/DC power, and the facilities also features state-of-the-art fire suppression systems. “Enjoy lower bandwidth costs by taking advantage of our secure T1 or T3 data lines," the company said in a statement. "Our data lines are more secure and much faster than standard in house cable lines most businesses have. All equipment housed in our New York colocation facilities comes with 24x7 support availability and physical access.”


Edited by Brooke Neuman