CenturyLink offers comprehensive colocation solutions through its global network of nearly 60 data centers, emphasizing high business efficiency, cost reduction, and scalability. The facilities are built to meet stringent uptime standards and incorporate advanced security measures while committing to sustainability and operational excellence. CenturyLink's services support a hybrid IT environment, providing customers with diverse connectivity options and adherence to compliance standards.

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Global Interconnectivity For Your IT Infrastructure
CenturyLink provides comprehensive colocation solutions for clients of all sizes. From a
single cabinet to a megawatt or more of data center capacity which enables you to deliver
the high level of business efficiency you require, while reducing your costs and increasing
your opportunity to achieve business growth. Today, CenturyLink has nearly 60 data centers
with over 185MW of power across among 2.6M sq. ft. of raised floor capacity. Our global
data center footprint extends around the world enabling CenturyLink to efficiently deliver our
services locally and in the markets where you do business and connecting you globally to your
end users and customers.
To facilitate your speed to market and drive key business efficiencies, we provide your team
the tools they need to successfully move from administration to innovation. Our state-of-the-
art data centers provide customers with distinct advantages:
• Capital and operational expense savings vs. owning your own facility;
• Proven reliability backed by a 100% uptime and stringent temperature and humidity SLAs;
• Operational excellence delivered by a seasoned staff of data center professionals adhering
to globally consistent best-practices methods and procedures;
• Space and power with flexible contract models;
• Network connectivity and carrier diversity;
• Multi-level physical security measures and optional incremental measures;
• Critical Systems redundancy of N+1 or better with concurrent maintainability;
• Customer-focused ergonomics and amenities including conference rooms, break rooms, and
customer work areas;
• Structured Cabling design and installation to ensure IT continuity;
• Robust compliance management to ensure adherence to key standards;
• Commitment to sustainability by reducing carbon footprint and power consumption.
DATA CENTERS
Colocation Services
NORTH AMERICA
Albuquerque, NM
Atlanta, GA
Boston, MA
Chicago, IL
Columbus, OH
Dallas, TX
Denver, CO
LA/Orange Co., CA
Las Vegas, NV
Metro NY/NJ
Minneapolis, MN
Phoenix, AZ
Seattle, WA
Silicon Valley, CA
St. Louis, MO
Tampa, FL
Washington, D.C.
CANADA
Montreal
Toronto
Vancouver
EUROPE
Germany
London
ASIA
Hong Kong
Singapore
Tokyo
To learn more, contact your CenturyLink representative, or visit www.centurylink.com/business

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DESIGN AND BUILD
CenturyLink has consistently built our datacenters to adhere to the Uptime
Institute Tier III standard for design and build. As of 2014, we have committed
to obtain the Tier III Design and Constructed Facilities certifications for all new
builds and have already achieved 6 Tier III Facility certifications.
All of our data centers are built to withstand extreme environmental
conditions such as hurricanes, earthquake and tornados. Our facilities,
where it is required due to the local environmental threats, are
hardened to withstand winds (including uplift) of up to 150 mph (the
equivalent of a Level 4 Hurricane or an EF3 Tornado). In all data centers,
the equipment racks are anchored to the a concrete stab below the
raised floor. In seismically-active regions, additional layers of protection
including bracing or isolation equipment are deployed to minimize
movement and potential tremors from earthquake or other seismic
events. CenturyLink takes great care to meet or exceed stringent local
building code requirements.
OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE
No single point of failure is the mantra of our data center operations.
All facilities have minimum of N+1 for mechanical, electrical, and
network connectivity with concurrent maintainability.
• Proven 100% power uptime with Service Level Agreement for
temperature and humidity. SLAs managed to ASHRAE standard;
• Process-driven organization with continual improvement;
• Consistent process driven organization – recipient of the Uptime
Institute Brill Awards for Facility Management;
• Perfect Data Center Design “4th Generation”;
• Disaster preparedness plan to maintain continuous operations;
• Sustainable Infrastructure;
• N+1 power, mechanical and electrical or greater, concurrently;
• High density computing up to 20 kW per cabinet;
• Multi-tiered physical and logical security;
• Infrastructure and security certifications;
• Logical security as well as physical security;
• 600+ operation and engineering staff with 15+ years of experience;
• ITIL and Six Sigma certification project managers.
CenturyLink has committed to certify all CenturyLink operated data
centers to Uptime Institute Maintenance and Operations (MO) Stamp
of Approval, by 2016. This certification provides third-party validation
of CenturyLink’s operational excellence, sustainability and consistency.
Uptime developed the MO program based on 20 years of historical
data compiled from data center outages. By understanding what causes
outages, Uptime has developed a standard that provides proactive
operational processes to avoid them. CenturyLink’s commitment to
MO reinforces its long standing practice of hiring exceptional staff
committed to continuous improvement, providing consistent and well
documented processes. The MO Stamp provides third-party validation
of CenturyLink’s Operational Excellence.
EFFICIENCY AND SUSTAINABILITY
As part of our commitment to continual improvement and increased
efficiencies, we work to advance our product offerings by integrating
innovative and proactive measures to improve hot air containment, data
center maintenance and sustainability and energy efficiency. Enhancing
data center accessibility and operations transparency for our customers
is a priority.
CenturyLink is looking for ways to be more sustainable and efficient by
implementing alternative energy options, providing higher density Colocation
environment options, refreshing components with more efficient newer
models, and improving our hot air/cold aisle containment to conserve energy
use. CenturyLink is one of the few providers to support multiple containment
options such as modules, cabinets, cages, and T-SCIFs.
SECURITY AND COMPLIANCE
CenturyLink utilizes a centralized global security operations hub that monitors
all global data centers, provides multiple challenge points throughout, and
grants permissions-based access to all data center areas. Our data centers
meet rigorous public sector and financial services security standards and are
staffed at all times. Multi-level security includes perimeter protection, ballistic
building construction, biometrics authentication, mantraps, digital monitoring,
locking mechanisms and perimeter fences in specific regions. Customers
have the ability to add incremental security options including intra cage video
cameras and card or biometric readers.
To learn more, contact your CenturyLink representative, or visit www.centurylink.com/business

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Implementing compliance standards within the data center provides
you the ability to ensure your adherence to internal and external
regulations requirements.
• U.S. | E.U. SAFEHARBOR | U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
• PCI Security Council Standards
• ISO
• ISAE 3402
• SSAE16
• HIPAA Compliance
FLEXIBILITY AND AGILITY
Providing a consistent customer experience in each data center
enables customers to experience the same level of excellent support
across all solutions. A full breadth of CenturyLink IT products and
services is available to all customers. Our facilities support a Hybrid
IT environment providing accessibility to all CenturyLink products and
services such as: cloud, colocation, managed hosting, security and
storage solutions and connection to the CenturyLink Tier 1 network.
Whether a customer requires connection between inter data center
environments, between buildings or to a carrier, CenturyLink offers
vital data center cross connects with carrier neutral, network diverse
IT services. CenturyLink data centers offer industry standard agnostic
CAT5E, COAX and Singlemode/Multimode Fiber connectivity. Cross
connects are delivered within 48 hours quickly connecting you to
service providers and ecosystems within the facility.
As your business changes, CenturyLink has the ability to partner
with you to align solutions around your goals. As you virtualize
specific applications, we work with you to incorporate cloud into your
colocation solutions, or in response to business conditions, seamlessly
add advanced security or storage solutions by taking advantage of
CenturyLink’s Hybrid IT offerings. To complement your IT strategy,
we have a connection of global ecosystem of XaaS providers within
our data centers. As well the CenturyLink Data Center Initiative (DCI)
interconnects you to not just other CenturyLink data centers and
buildings but to over 250 third party data centers and over 40,000
buildings and offices.
As your business changes, CenturyLink is here to support you. Hosting your
solutions within our data center facilities provides you the IT resources you
need when you need them. And, no challenge or penalty as you connect
globally to your remote offices, customers, partners and ecosystems.
To learn more, contact your CenturyLink representative, or visit www.centurylink.com/business