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Telecity Group plc is a Europe
an carrier-neutral datacentre
and Colocation centre
provider. They specialise in the design, build and management of highly connected, resilient and secure environments in which customers can house their telecoms, internet and IT infrastructure. They are listed on the London Stock Exchange
and is a constituent of the FTSE 250
, techMARK and FTSE4Good indices.
In July 1998 Redbus Interhouse Limited was incorporated, and commenced operations in its first data centre in London Docklands in July 1999. By March 2000, Redbus Interhouse Limited floated on the main market of the London Stock Exchange and in June 2000, TeleCity Limited’s parent company, TeleCity plc floated on the London Stock Exchange
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In September 2005 TeleCity plc was taken private by 3i and Oak Hill and by October of that year Telecity Group plc (the Company) was incorporated and became the holding company of Telecity PLC and its group companies in November 2005. In January 2006 Telecity Group acquired Redbus Interhouse Plc, a rival business, resulting in the two business, TeleCity and Redbus, trading under the name of TelecityRedbus. Later in 2006 Telecity Group plc bought the European assets of the US-based Globix Corporation.
Following a rebranding exercise implemented in August 2007, TeleCity, Redbus and Globix (UK) began to trade under the name TelecityGroup. In October Telecity Group plc listed on the main market of the London Stock Exchange
and in December TelecityGroup were admitted to the FTSE 250 index.
In August 2010 TelecityGroup acquired Internet Facilitators Limited (IFL), a provider of carrier neutral data centres in Manchester.
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The company operates 24 data centres across Europe: Amsterdam - 4, Frankfurt - 2, London - 8, Manchester - 3, Milan - 2, Dublin - 1, Paris - 3 and Sweden - 2. TelecityGroup's competition for European Data Centre services includes Telehouse, Interxion
and Equinix.
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TelecityGroup is also the first specialist data centre services provider to achieve the Carbon Trust Standard in the UK. The Carbon Trust Standard was developed by The Carbon Trust
in 2007/08 to encourage good practice in carbon measurement, management and reduction by businesses and public sector organisations.
In June 2010 TelecityGroup achieved company-wide ISO 14001 certification for Environmental Management.
During a power outage on the 1st and 2nd of November 2004, which shut down entire quarters in Frankfurt
as well as Frankfurt International Airport
for 11 minutes, Redbus Interhouse Frankfurt managed to fully compensate for the outage during the entire failure period of about 10 hours.
, Cliff Stanford
to take advantage of the success of the carrier-neutral datacentre market that had been created in the London Docklands area by Telehouse. By the late 1990s Telehouse North had become full, and there was a huge demand for further capacity.
connections are available at many of the London TelecityGroup locations. Also present are LONAP
, LIPEX, and Redbus Internet Exchange
switches.
The company also hosts the AMS-IX
in Amsterdam, DE-CIX
in Frankfurt and Netnod in its forthcoming Stockholm 2 datacentre. Telecity is a Patron of Euro-IX , the association of European Internet Exchanges and an associate member of the Internet Watch Foundation
.
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
an carrier-neutral datacentre
Data center
A data center is a facility used to house computer systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems...
and Colocation centre
Colocation centre
A colocation centre or colocation center , is a type of data centre where equipment space and bandwidth are available for rental to retail customers...
provider. They specialise in the design, build and management of highly connected, resilient and secure environments in which customers can house their telecoms, internet and IT infrastructure. They are listed on the London Stock Exchange
London Stock Exchange
The London Stock Exchange is a stock exchange located in the City of London within the United Kingdom. , the Exchange had a market capitalisation of US$3.7495 trillion, making it the fourth-largest stock exchange in the world by this measurement...
and is a constituent of the FTSE 250
FTSE 250 Index
The FTSE 250 Index is a capitalisation-weighted index consisting of the 101st to the 350th largest companies on the London Stock Exchange. Promotions to and demotions from the index take place quarterly in March, June, September and December...
, techMARK and FTSE4Good indices.
History
TelecityGroup plc is the result of the uniting of three separate companies - TeleCity Limited, Redbus Interhouse Limited and Globix Holdings (UK) Limited. TeleCity Limited was founded by Mike Kelly from Manchester University in April 1998 and opened its first data centre in Manchester. At that time 3i Group made an investment of £24m in the Company.In July 1998 Redbus Interhouse Limited was incorporated, and commenced operations in its first data centre in London Docklands in July 1999. By March 2000, Redbus Interhouse Limited floated on the main market of the London Stock Exchange and in June 2000, TeleCity Limited’s parent company, TeleCity plc floated on the London Stock Exchange
London Stock Exchange
The London Stock Exchange is a stock exchange located in the City of London within the United Kingdom. , the Exchange had a market capitalisation of US$3.7495 trillion, making it the fourth-largest stock exchange in the world by this measurement...
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In September 2005 TeleCity plc was taken private by 3i and Oak Hill and by October of that year Telecity Group plc (the Company) was incorporated and became the holding company of Telecity PLC and its group companies in November 2005. In January 2006 Telecity Group acquired Redbus Interhouse Plc, a rival business, resulting in the two business, TeleCity and Redbus, trading under the name of TelecityRedbus. Later in 2006 Telecity Group plc bought the European assets of the US-based Globix Corporation.
Following a rebranding exercise implemented in August 2007, TeleCity, Redbus and Globix (UK) began to trade under the name TelecityGroup. In October Telecity Group plc listed on the main market of the London Stock Exchange
London Stock Exchange
The London Stock Exchange is a stock exchange located in the City of London within the United Kingdom. , the Exchange had a market capitalisation of US$3.7495 trillion, making it the fourth-largest stock exchange in the world by this measurement...
and in December TelecityGroup were admitted to the FTSE 250 index.
In August 2010 TelecityGroup acquired Internet Facilitators Limited (IFL), a provider of carrier neutral data centres in Manchester.
Operations
The Company operates the following sites in LondonLondon
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
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- Bonnington House: Telecity's original London Docklands location, on Millharbour.
- Harbour Exchange: The original Redbus Interhouse site is located at 6-7 Harbour Exchange Square and adjacent to this is Telecity's second Docklands location at 8-9 Harbour Exchange Square. The former was the first London Docklands datacentre to be retrofitted into commercial office space, and had a number of problems which Redbus spent a large amount of money correcting during 2005. It offers parking for a small number of vehicles outside and is adjacent to the former London ArenaLondon ArenaThe London Arena was an indoor arena and exhibition centre, on the Isle of Dogs, in East London, England...
. - Meridian Gate: The second Redbus facility, again retro fitting commercial office space, but this time to a much higher standard. It offers parking for a small number of vehicles.
- Sovereign House: Redbus Interhouse's third and biggest facility, next to a multi-storey car park. This building has the best of all locations in London, specification wise. It was also the head office of Redbus Interhouse prior to their acquisition by Telecity.
- Prospect House: A former Globix datacentre in Central London by Tottenham Court Road station.
- Oliver's Yard: Another former Globix facility which TelecityRedbus retrofitted for High Density computing requirements; with almost 1MW of available power. TelecityGroup has announced that it is adding an additional floor of datacentre here.
- Powergate: A new £50M datacentre opened in 2008 in West London, in the Park Royal industrial estate.
The company operates 24 data centres across Europe: Amsterdam - 4, Frankfurt - 2, London - 8, Manchester - 3, Milan - 2, Dublin - 1, Paris - 3 and Sweden - 2. TelecityGroup's competition for European Data Centre services includes Telehouse, Interxion
Interxion
Interxion is a European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services. Founded in 1998 in the Netherlands, the firm was publicly listed on the New York Stock Exchange on January 28, 2011...
and Equinix.
Industry standards and accreditations
In April 2010 all of TelecityGroup's European data centres were certified compliant with the international security management standard ISO/IEC 27001:2005 and the business quality management standard ISO 9001:2008. In June 2010 TelecityGroup achieved company-wide OHSAS 18001 certification for Occupational Health and Safety management systems.Environment
As datacentres consume significant amounts of power, operators are under increasing pressure to demonstrate environmental responsibility. To this end TelecityGroup was an early adopter of the EU's Code of Conduct for datacentres, a voluntary code launched in December 2008 which promotes the adoption of energy efficient best practices amongst data centres owners and operators. TelecityGroup is also a member of The Green GridThe Green Grid
The Green Grid is a non-profit, open industry consortium of end-users, policy-makers, technology providers, facility architects, and utility companies collaborating to improve the resource efficiency of data centers and business computing ecosystems...
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TelecityGroup is also the first specialist data centre services provider to achieve the Carbon Trust Standard in the UK. The Carbon Trust Standard was developed by The Carbon Trust
The Carbon Trust
The Carbon Trust is a not for dividend company limited by guarantee created by the UK government to help businesses and public organisations to reduce their emissions of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, through improved energy efficiency and developing commercial low carbon technology...
in 2007/08 to encourage good practice in carbon measurement, management and reduction by businesses and public sector organisations.
In June 2010 TelecityGroup achieved company-wide ISO 14001 certification for Environmental Management.
Power outages
The Redbus datacentres in London Docklands have suffered from a number of power outages, including one at the Redbus Harbour Exchange datacentre in March 2005 where several customers suffered equipment failure, possibly due to a power surge.During a power outage on the 1st and 2nd of November 2004, which shut down entire quarters in Frankfurt
Frankfurt
Frankfurt am Main , commonly known simply as Frankfurt, is the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany, with a 2010 population of 688,249. The urban area had an estimated population of 2,300,000 in 2010...
as well as Frankfurt International Airport
Frankfurt International Airport
Frankfurt am Main Airport , or simply Frankfurt Airport, known in German as Flughafen Frankfurt am Main or Rhein-Main-Flughafen, is a major international airport located in Frankfurt, Germany, southwest of the city centre....
for 11 minutes, Redbus Interhouse Frankfurt managed to fully compensate for the outage during the entire failure period of about 10 hours.
Redbus Interhouse
Redbus Interhouse was founded in 1998 by the founder of Demon InternetDemon Internet
Demon Internet is a British Internet Service Provider. It was one of the UK's earliest ISPs, especially targeting the "dialup" audience. It started on 1 June 1992 from an idea posted on CIX by Cliff Stanford of Demon Systems Ltd. The branch in the Netherlands started in 1996, and was sold to KPN...
, Cliff Stanford
Cliff Stanford
Cliff Stanford, an accountant from Southend-on-Sea, was a co-founder of Demon Internet, the first Internet Service Provider in the United Kingdom for individual subscribers...
to take advantage of the success of the carrier-neutral datacentre market that had been created in the London Docklands area by Telehouse. By the late 1990s Telehouse North had become full, and there was a huge demand for further capacity.
Internet exchanges
LINXLondon Internet Exchange
The London Internet Exchange is an Internet exchange point situated in London. It was founded in 1994 by a group of Internet service providers. LINX is a founder member of , a Europe-wide alliance of Internet Exchanges...
connections are available at many of the London TelecityGroup locations. Also present are LONAP
LONAP
London Network Access Point is a London-based Internet exchange point founded in 1997 as a membership organisation and currently has almost 100 members, making it the 2nd largest IXP in the UK and around the 15th largest IXP in the World by membership...
, LIPEX, and Redbus Internet Exchange
Redbus Internet Exchange
The Redbus Internet Exchange was a not-for-profit neutral Internet Exchange Point situated in London, widely considered to be a vanity project of two small Docklands Internet service providers, Othello Technology and Netegral...
switches.
The company also hosts the AMS-IX
Amsterdam Internet Exchange
The Amsterdam Internet Exchange is an Internet exchange point situated in Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. AMS-IX started in 1994 and is a fast growing, non-profit, neutral and independent peering point...
in Amsterdam, DE-CIX
DE-CIX
Deutscher Commercial Internet Exchange is an Internet Exchange Point situated in Frankfurt ....
in Frankfurt and Netnod in its forthcoming Stockholm 2 datacentre. Telecity is a Patron of Euro-IX , the association of European Internet Exchanges and an associate member of the Internet Watch Foundation
Internet Watch Foundation
The Internet Watch Foundation is a non-governmental charitable body based in the United Kingdom. It states that its remit is "to minimise the availability of 'potentially criminal' Internet content, specifically images of child sexual abuse hosted anywhere, and criminally obscene adult content in...
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