A computer graphic of London Gateway. Its connectivity options are said to be “superb” with round-trip latency to The City of around 0.2 milliseconds.

High levels of connectivity are expected for the new London Gateway Data Centre (GDC) in West Thurrock. The new facility sits on a 2.3 hectare site and is housed in an existing warehouse that is currently awaiting further development.

Its developers say they have all planning permissions in place as well as connectivity and power – 30MW will be deliverable to the site from UKPN’s West Thurrock Grid Sub Station. GDC will offer 8,000m2 of hall space and will become fully operational 12 months after the first tenants have signed-up.

The facility is located a few kilometres from the New York Stock Exchange’s disaster recovery and European Hub in Basildon. It is also just 20 metres from Fujitsu’s data centre and 6,000km national fibre backbone. The centre will therefore be able to take advantage of direct connectivity via a diverse routed ‘figure of eight’ network through Birmingham and Leicester to Manchester, Southport and Leeds.

It’s claimed this ensures direct low-latency access can be immediately available (subject to contracts) to 400 Tier 1 and Tier 2 carriers via London’s Telecity (Harbour Exchange), Telecity (London East) and Global Switch (London East). Fujitsu’s network also gives direct access to LINX and LoNAP plus easy connection to AMSIX and NLix.

The connectivity options for London Gateway are “superb” according to Charles Carden, a director with specialist property agents GVA Connect: “Diverse dark fibre routes are possible to The City of London, and estimated to have round-trip latency of just 0.19 to 0.2 milliseconds.

“The availability of BT, Colt, KPN and Cable & Wireless plus Fujitsu’s IL-3 and IL-2 secure IP transit network gives access to some 400 carriers. High density computing capabilities (thanks to the 50MVA power potential) mean the Gateway Data Centre is now demonstrated to be one of the most capable sites currently available.”