It was a busy week at our new facility in Seattle! Today's update is all about Power and Fiber.

Above: Technician from VECA at work terminating electrical wire in one of our two PDUs.

Primary electrical work completed on Friday. This involved taking AC power from the PDUs out to all of the racks. Seattle's VECA electric is performing the work. They've been at it for the past week and have done an excellent job. Big thanks to Orville and his crew, and Alan & Charlotte in Project Management.

The UPS batteries are now fully charged and operating. We should start installing network equipment soon.

Above: UPS status.

Most importantly, our first fiber-optic cable installation began on Thursday. OnFiber, our favorite supplier of Metropolitan Area Ethernet services started pulling a new installation from their POP at Intergate.East. We will use these connections to bridge our Local Area Network in the current Bothell facility to the new one in Seattle. We also will use OnFiber as we always have, a Gigabit Ethernet connection to Seattle's "Westin Building", the telecommunications hub for the Pacific Northwest. Like our Bothell facility has been since 2001, our new facility in Seattle will be "virtually in the Westin" by a Gig-E connection. We have ordered local connectivity at Intergate.West, so our facility will be directly connected to two of the three major POP's in Seattle.

Above: The crew from OnFiber measures out innerduct for a fiber pull from the ground floor up to our datacenter.

Thursday's work involved pulling innerduct (the orange plastic tubes that protects and identifies fiber-optic cable) up through the building's riser ducts as well as from the building to OnFiber's POP. The actual fiber will be installed next week.

Above: Willy Peterson and Brian Medley from OnFiber pull the last innerduct into place. Willy is standing on the spot where our fiber-optic termination rack will stand.

We love OnFiber, they are a great company to work with. (Reload that page enough times and our logo will eventually rotate through.) Huge thanks to Brian, his crew in Operations, as well as Melissa in Sales, and Jennifer in Project Management.

Next up: Racks and Network.