// UK Grid Data Centres - Synergy House News
Synergy House is located on the Manchester Science Park, the main Internet hub in Manchester

/ Well connected
Synergy House is a carrier neutral data centre and welcomes a wide choice of network providers, from leading global tier I carriers, to UK and European based tier II providers, all offering highly resilient IP bandwidth delivery to Synergy House customers. Synergy House has two fully diverse fibre routes into the facility and is currently working on a third diverse path. This diversity has helped secure the following major tier 1 carriers into the facility:

- Cogent Communications
Cogent's end-to-end optical network consists of multiple metropolitan IP-over-WDM fiber rings located in Cogent's major markets throughout the United States and Europe. Cogent currently has a presence in over 100 markets throughout North America and Europe.

- Level3 Communications
Level3 is one of the largest IP Transit carriers in the world. The world's largest telecom carriers all continue to use Level 3 services, as do the 10 largest U.S. Internet Service Providers, and the 10 largest European telecom carriers.

- Tiscali (TINet)
Tiscali has the best performing backbone in Europe and their TINet IP/MPLS backbone extends over 19 countries in Europe, North America and Asia.

- Global Crossing
Global Crossing offer some of the best routes out to the US and Europe and is one of the largest global carrier one's.

UK Grid are also in dialogue with other major fibre and bandwidth providers looking to provide services out of Synergy House and will be making further announcements soon.

/ The Synergy House advantage
...with well connected cost effective colocation
- 300 racks of premium tier2 data centre space with redundant power and cooling
- 100% carrier neutral facility
- Space from quarter lockable cabinets to full private suites
- Leading tier1 & tier2 network providers present including Level3, Cogent, Global Crossing, Tiscali (TiNET), C4L, NWIX and MaNAP IXP
- Access is controlled by our own on site team, backed by a 24 x 7 security presence with full CCTV, a swipe and ID card entry system
- A near unity N+1 UPS system backed up via diesel generators
- Dual and diverse dark fibre routes into the building with separate entry points and termination

/ Synergy House Specification
- 7000 sq ft floor space
- 2 MVA power capacity
- Scania Generators
- N+1 Chloride UPS systems
- N+1 Airedale HVAC System
- FM200 + VESDA
- 24 x 7 x 365 Security, Access and Remote Hands

/ Synergy House Q4 Offers
- a) A + B power feeds included with all full 48RU rack sales (normally £495.00 PA)
  or
- No setup free with all full 48RU rack sales (normally £500.00)
- b) No setup fee on all private lockable quarter cabinet 12 RU sales (normally £250.00)
- c) 3000 GB monthly data transfer on all 1U sales
- d) FREE 100 Mbps Metro connection from Synergy House to any on-net UK Grid Manchester data centre