Secure Cabinet with kVA-Based Power
This is our build-to-suit customized cabinet. Backed by a robust Service Level Agreement (SLA), this product allows you to connect between, among, and through the largest networks.
Secure Cabinet With kVA-Based Power is available globally and can be installed within a shared or private cage of an IBX. This product allows you to license and power one or more cabinets in a shared IBX environment. The cabinet(s) and power are billed based on the quantity of CabE and kVA allocated to you. Compatible accessories are available for installation by our IBX technicians. Equinix performs all installations of cabinets and power circuits.
Secure Cabinets are located on the colocation floor, with considerations for hot and cold aisle alignment. Customers must install their equipment within the cabinet to allow for proper air flow. See Air Containment for more information.
This product is best suited for users with customization needs. For standard business-ready cabinets, see Secure Cabinet Express. For higher levels of customization, see Secure Cabinet - Using Customer-Provided Cabinet.
To see information about your existing Secure Cabinet deployments, refer to View Your Colo Assets in the Portal. To make changes to your cabinet deployment, see Modify Your Colocation Deployment.
Features
Features of Secure Cabinet include:
- An Equinix-provided cabinet where you can install your equipment, with front and rear doors locking.
- A demarcation point (located inside the cabinet) for interconnection / cross-connects.
- A single-mode fiber patch panel inside the cabinet, enables interconnection products and services.
- Cable management can securely support any media directly to the demarcation point within the cabinet.
- The ability to draw power up to a contracted draw cap (measured in kVA).
- You can request a reasonable number of power sockets.
- You can request to install or deinstall power circuits as needed.
- The option to install your own PDUs.
- Multiple power circuit/wiring configurations to support your equipment power requirements
Available power density options, demarcation, and cabinet/rack types may vary by IBX and by country.
Add-Ons
Additional options that are available as accessories:
- Cabinet accessories such as shelves and screws
- Patch panels, cables
- Power strips, fuse panels
- Cable management inside the closed cabinet
- Ladder racking
- Enhanced security (such as proximity cards plus PIN security devices and video surveillance dedicated to the cabinet)
Equinix performs all installations of cabinets and power circuits.
Integrated Power
A standard Secure Cabinet includes integrated redundant power circuits that offer high availability for your critical network needs and distributed computing workload. Power circuits are selected to support your power requirements — these circuits offer site power density for a range of power loads to meet your needs, and ensure that the loads are sufficiently supported.
Circuits
- Conditioned AC power is delivered to the cabinet via an AC power circuit.
- Conditioned DC power is delivered to the cabinet via a DC power circuit.
The available voltage and amperage vary by country.
You can contract for a single (primary) circuit, but for infrastructure resiliency, we encourage you to use a pair of redundant power circuits. A redundant power circuit pair is:
- A matching pair of circuits (in both voltage and amperage)
- Fed by diverse UPS systems
You have the option to spread the power load across both circuits in the redundant power circuit pair, but the load must not exceed the capacity of a single circuit. This ensures that a single circuit can carry the full load in case of a circuit failure.
The type of socket or receptacle used for each circuit is country-specific, voltage-specific, and amperage-specific. It is installed either above the cabinet or, in some raised floor IBX data centers, under the floor beneath the cabinet.
The maximum allowable draw on any one circuit equals the Circuit-Usable kVA, which varies by region:
| Region | Maximum Allowable Draw (in amps) |
|---|---|
| APAC | 80% of the size of the circuit |
| EMEA | 100% of the size of the circuit |
| AMER | 80% of the size of the circuit (for 120/208V circuits) 100% of the size of the circuit (for 240/415V circuits) |
Draw Caps
Every Secure Cabinet With kVA-Based Power has a power draw cap, measured in kVA. A draw cap is the maximum power draw supportable by (and contractually allowable for) a secure cabinet.
The draw cap does not place a limit on the number of power circuits that can be installed.
For customers that require both AC and DC power, the draw cap must be split between AC and DC power draw.
A 5 kVA draw cap can be split into 4 kVA of AC power and 1 kVA of DC power.
The draw cap is split into AC Power kVA and DC Power kVA based on your expected AC and DC power draw in the cabinet. AC Power kVA plus DC Power kVA must exactly equal the draw cap.
If you order more than one secure cabinet in an IBX, those cabinets may or may not be installed in the same secure area. Multiple secure cabinets installed in the same secure area are assigned an aggregate draw cap.
The total installed capacity of all primary circuits should not exceed twice the draw cap.
Cabinet Ratings
Every secure cabinet has a Cabinet Rating equal to the maximum power draw allowable in the cabinet per the Global IBX Policies. The rating is also an indication of the cooling resources necessary to support the cabinet.
Multiple secure cabinets in one IBX or in one secure area may have different Cabinet Ratings. The sum of the Cabinet Ratings of all cabinets installed in the same secure area must be less than or equal to the aggregate draw cap.
The cabinet rating does not place a limit on the number of power circuits that can be installed in the cabinet.
A Cabinet Equivalent, or CabE, is a unit of measure equal to the total cage space needed to support one secure cabinet (and its associated hot and cold aisle space). For example, a 10 CabE space can support 10 secure cabinets.
The Average CabE Rating is used to determine the overall power density of a set of secure cabinets. The Average CabE Rating is equal to the quotient of the draw cap (in kVA) divided by the quantity of secure cabinets installed in one secure area.
Suppose you license two secure cabinets in a single secure area; one cabinet has a Cabinet Rating of 4 kVA and the other has a Cabinet Rating of 5 kVA. The aggregate draw cap for these two secure cabinets is 9 kVA (4 kVA + 5 kVA = 9 kVA). The Average CabE Rating is 4.5 kVA (9 kVA ÷ 2 cabinets = 4.5 kVA).
Equinix-Provided Cabinet Specs
EMEA
| Availability | Bulgaria, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Oman, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, UAE, UK |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | Widths: 600 mm or 800 mm Depths: 1000 mm or 1200 mm Heights: 2200 mm or 2422 mm Note: Not all cabinet sizes are available in every IBX. Verify availability with your Sales Engineer. |
| Rack Unit Capacity | 2200 mm High: 47U 2422 mm High: 52U |
| Static Load Capacity | 1500 kg |
| Earthing | Fully earthed via central earthing point to Equinix earthing grid |
| Interior | 19 inch profiles: 4 vertical mounting rails with U Marking (1st U at bottom) Adjustability: Front vertical mounting rails set 100 mm from door with stepless depth adjustment Frame: Powder coated aluminum extrusions |
| Doors | Front Door: 80% perforated single front door Rear Door: 80% perforated double rear door Locking: Swivel handles with euro-profile key lock (Standard in Germany) OR Swivel handle with combination lock (Standard in all available locations except Germany) |
| Roof | Modularity: Modular inserts per 100 mm Inserts: Cover Panels, Cable Entry Guides and Brushes |
| Air Flow Management | 80% perforated doors Side skirts Vertical mounting rail seal Blanks / brushes to roof cable entry points |
| Accessories | Cable Management: 200 mm wide cable tray mounted 500 mm from the cabinet Included Accessories: Earthing kit, Universal PDU Mounting Bracket (x2), Height (U) indication on all 4 vertical mounting rails Optional Accessories: 200 mm wide cable tray, 300 mm wide cable tray, Strip to mount cable management to VMR & cable guides, Cable Management rings (10 pcs), Steel cable rings to mount on height profile, Double PDU Mounting bracket |
| Compatible Products | Secure Cabinet (included as part of service) Private Cage (as an installed accessory) EU Business Suite (as an installed accessory) |
Interconnection
Each Secure Cabinet includes a network demarcation point comprising a single mode fiber patch panel by default, from which cross connects can be ordered. A cross connect allows the originating user (A-side) to connect a physical media cable to another user (Z-side).
Equinix requires that all cross connects be delivered via an Equinix-approved demarcation point. As a standard practice across our global IBX data centers, Equinix provides in-cabinet demarcation panels for the Secure Cabinet products.
See Cross Connects for more information.
Additional Cabinet Services
Additional services that complement the Secure Cabinet products include installation, configuration, and maintenance of a range of accessories, such as:
- Cable management inside the closed cabinet
- Patch panels and cables
- Cabinet accessories, like shelves and screws
- Cabinet-based PDUs
- Power strips and fuse panels
See Cage/Cabinet Accessories for information about ordering accessories online via the Equinix Customer Portal.
See Smart Hands for more information about our additional cabinet services.