JOINT CASE STUDY
DFT-RACKSPACE-AMS-IX
Vinay Nagpal
Director, Carrier Relations
June 16, 2016
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INTRODUCING DFT
Leader in wholesale
data centers
Established in 2007
Only pure-play
wholesale data
center REIT
NYSE: DFT
Strong financials
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$452.4M 2015 FY
Revenue (~10-12%
growth CAGR by 2020)
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60%+ EBITDA Margin
(lowest SG&A)
DFT KEY FACTS
High Quality
Customer Base
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Largest customers include Microsoft, Facebook and Rackspace
68% of revenue from investment grade or equivalent customers
Long term average lease maturity of approximately 5.4 years
Long triple net leases with full expense recovery including
maintenance CAPEX
 11 carrier neutral data centers located in three Tier I markets
Strategically Located
 3.1 million gross square feet with 267 MW of critical load
Portfolio
Third Largest
Data Center REIT
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 Wholesale, fully fitted turnkey data center space
 100% fee simple ownership; self-managed
 Large scale and efficient data centers
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DFT DATA CENTER FOOTPRINT
3 Markets, 11 Data Centers, 2 Campuses, 37 Carriers, 2 Internet Exchanges/Cloud Providers
Coming Soon
Portland, OR
Coming Soon
Toronto, ONT
CH1: 14 Carriers, AWS
CH2: 1 Carrier, AMS-IX
Elk Grove Village, IL (campus)
ACC: 30 Carriers, AWS & LINX
VA3: 14 Carriers & AWS
Ashburn, VA (campus)
Reston, VA
Gainesville, VA
SC1: 7 Carriers
Santa Clara, CA
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TODAY: 267 MW | 3 Markets
2020: 414 MW©2016
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DFT DATA CENTER MARKETS
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DFT CONNECTIVITY STRATEGY
Multiple Carrier Accessibility
Diverse Underground Fiber Access Points
Conduit to CR
Carrier-Neutral Data Centers
Diversity
Cross-Connect
MH
Diverse Underground Conduits to CR
Fiber Cross Connects
C
Open-IX Certified Internet Exchanges
DFT Dark Fiber Network
Ashburn & Chicago Campuses
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DFT CONNECTIVITY SERVICES
Current DFT Connectivity services:
1. MMR services – space and power circuits
2. Conduit/Innerduct licensing – to build fiber to a building & between buildings
3. Dark Fiber Services
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Intra-data center – within a data center
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Inter-data center – between data centers
Internet Exchange & Cloud Services
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Space, power and Cross Connects
MSA with 3 year or 5 year terms
Open-IX certification at ACC5, CH2
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DFT CHICAGO CAMPUS
 62 MW CRITICAL LOAD
 38 Acres
 823,000 sq. ft.
CH3
 CONNECTIVITY
 Dual lateral conduit system
 14 Operational Carriers
 AMS-IX Chicago
 AWS via Level 3
 Connectivity to 350 E
Cermak (DLR, Telx, Equinix),
2905 Diehl (CME), 1905
Lunt (Equinix IBX)
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AMS-IX AT DFT
 Lockable cabinet
 Local Peering in Chicago (CH2)
 Redundant power
 Distributed Internet Exchange
 ½ cabinet (29Us) with 2kW power
 Edge switch at DFT CH2
 Direct Cross Connect to AMS-IX &
 100Mbps to 100Gbps ports
DFT MMR/POEs
AMS-IX Chicago
DFT
Open-IX is a non-profit industry association formed to promote better
technical and operational standards for data center interconnection and
Internet Exchanges globally.
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AMS-IX CHICAGO IMPLEMENTATION AT CH2
Internet Exchange:
AMS-IX Chicago
Network Colocation: (Row B)
Half-Cabinets / 29RU
2kW per half-cabinet
DFT CH2 Data Center – MMR
2299 Busse Road
Elk Grove Village IL 60007
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Cross Connects:
SM Fiber to CC to AMS-IX, MMR, POEs & CH1
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AMS-IX demarc extended to MMR,
POE2, POE3 and to CH1
DFT DARK FIBER NETWORK AT CHICAGO
Access to 15 network
carriers including AWS
Amsterdam Internet
Exchange (AMS-IX)
CH1-CH2 Diverse
Direct Connectivity
OCEF/MDF
Fiber termination
panels in all MMR &
POEs in CH1 & CH2
Coil
Installation &
Availability SLAs
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Coil
Coil
DFT Chicago to 350 Cermak
• Estimated Optical Distance:87.5 km / 54.4 miles
• Loss Budget: 21.9 dB @1550nm
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DFT CHICAGO CARRIERS, AMS-IX & AWS
Through tw telecom eLynk
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PLANS FOR FUTURE GROWTH AT CHICAGO
DFT CH3 – 25.6 MW, RFS Q4 2017
ARTHUR AVENUE
MH-CH3-NE
MH-CH3-SE
DEVON AVENUE
CH3 Data Center
25.6 MW
1420 East Devon Ave, Elk Grove Village, IL 60007
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