Deep Dive

Over the next three months there are going to be a lot of moving parts in the FAELIX machine. All of these will be choreographed around the establishment of our new presence in Equinix MA5, the connectivity from there to the rest of our network, and beyond.

For the last couple of years our overall network topology in the UK has been relatively stable, looking like this:

We plan to POP the other half of Equinix MA1, Kilburn House, as one of the steps in our build. This will afford us diverse paths from MA5 to the rest of our network, and into a building with separate power infrastructure from Williams House. From both houses of MA1 we will extend our connectivity towards MA5.

Then the migration of services will take place during what we hope to be the second half of September and the first half of October, leaving us a contingency in our project plan of another two weeks.

During that September migration we will assess our progress and serve notice on the remaining connectivity, power and space in MA2 as appropriate. We’ll only do that once we’re confident that the migration will be completed in time for those cancellations — what we are calling the “point of no return”!