Elk Grove Village, Illinois Data Center
Our Chicago-area data center ranks among the top in the U.S. for both quality and redundancy.
2200 Busse Road
Elk Grove Village, IL 60007 USA
Technical Specifications
These are the nuts and bolts behind our smooth operations.
Power
- Minimum N+1 redundancy
- 4 diverse, 34.5 kV power feeds
- 33 1,300 kW rotary UPS systems
- 33 2,250 kW diesel-powered generators
- 200,000 gallon fuel reserve
- 36.4 MW critical load
- Solid-state static transfer switches (STSs)
- Branch Circuit Monitoring System (BCMS)
- High power density safely accommodates more gear in less space
Cooling
- N+2 redundancy
- 300+ 40-ton Computer Room Air Handler (CRAH) units
- 1,000,000 gallon chilled water reserve
- Evaporative chilled water plants
Network
- IPv6- and MPLS-enabled 100-GbE private global IP network
- Low-latency peering with top traffic destinations
- Three diverse fiber paths to 350 E. Cermak facility in Chicago
- Diverse transit if 350 E. Cermak goes down
- Dark fiber available
Security
- 24/7 security staff
- Visitor screening
- CCTV video surveillance 24/7
- Videos kept for 90 days, images kept indefinitely
- Dual-factor authentication via biometric and proximity scanners
- Secure shipping and receiving areas
- Equipment screening
- Mantrap
Facility
Get to know the lay of the land.
Fire Suppression
- Smoke detectors under raised floor, on ceiling
- Laser-based Very Early Smoke Detection Apparatus (VESDA) system
- Pre-action zoned dry-pipe system
Airports
- O’Hare Airport 8 miles (13 km)
- Midway Airport 27 miles (43 km)
Parking
- 500+ parking spaces on site
Building
- 485,000 ft2
- 275,000 ft2 raised floor
- 42-inch raised floor
- 450 pounds per ft2
- Exceeds Tier III standards as defined by the Uptime Institute
Perks
Welcome to the good life, where the amenities are as solid as our uptime.
Support
- Summit Network Operations Center (NOC) staff on site 24/7
- Summit Remote Hands support on site 24/7
- Redundant NOCs as the first responders to trouble tickets
Compliance
- SOC 2 audit
- PCI-DSS
- GDPR
Service Level Agreements
- 100% uptime SLAs on power and IP service
- Competitive SLAs on cooling and humidification
Amenities
- All sizes of hard drives, RAM, copper/fiber cables, optics, PDUs, power cables, switches, servers, accessories available 24/7
- Wi-Fi available throughout the facility
- Crash carts and workspaces inside computer rooms
- Readily available power tools, ladders, blanking panels, cage screws, nuts
- Office space and private storage lockers available
- Secure, climate-controlled loading docks available 24/7
Peek inside
Offering unrivaled capabilities in the Midwest market, this data center has the scale to support your needs, from dedicated servers and 1/2 colocation racks to dense-GPU colocation and entire data rooms.
Rich Interconnectivity Options
Our carrier-neutral Elk Grove Village facility is supported by our dedicated, local engineering team 24x7x365.
Connect to major cloud providers.
Summit’s Elk Grove Village facility offers robust cloud connectivity, enabling direct access to top cloud providers:
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) via Direct Connect
- Google Cloud via Dedicated Interconnect
- IBM Cloud
- Microsoft Azure via ExpressRoute
Additionally, this facility provides direct connections to key carriers and fiber providers through 350 E. Cermak, enhancing network reliability and performance.
This setup supports flexible, high-speed cloud integrations tailored to meet diverse business demands.
Your favorite fiber providers are here.
Summit’s global, IPv6 network traverses multiple, disparate fiber paths to ensure always-on network connectivity. Four of these paths terminate at our Chicago data center (350 E. Cermak), where we interconnect with and peer with dozens of other fiber providers:
- AT&T
- Cogent
- Comcast Business
- Crown Castle (Lightower Fiber, Sidera, Sunesys)*
- GTT (Hibernia)
- Lumen (CenturyLink, Level3, TW)*
- T-Mobile (Sprint)
- Verizon (Verizon Business, XO Communications)
- Windstream
- Zayo*
*Dark fiber available
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The proof is in the praise
We were having trouble with our apps not sending data. We called up [Summit], and they spent 2 hours talking us through it. It was a simple command line change and they fixed it. AWS won’t do that.
