Cover

Connectivity that helps keep Bavarian citizens safe

Geiger successfully completes project with the Bavarian State Criminal Police Office (BLKA) to equip their redundant data centers with reliable, future-proof, scalable and highly available solutions to meet their current and future requirements.

The BLKA

The BLKA is the central IT authority of the Bavarian Police, with approximately 2,000 employees. It’s not only the central office for data processing and transmission, but it also provides important services such as e-mail, and telephony converge. BLKA’s data centers ensure these functions operate around the clock. Both the increasing demands on police work and the constantly changing IT and network processes require that the entire infrastructure must be reliable, future-proof, scalable, and highly available.

https://www.minkels.com/images/gwTcf/2021 -  RZ 1 HVT F-G-Reihe.jpgTo equip the existing operational redundant data centers for future IT and network requirements in terms of technology, structure, availability, and reliability, the project “Restructuring DC-Whitespace” was started. Geiger supported the BLKA in this project over the entire process, from the initial idea, through to the conception and detailed planning, to the execution, including quality assurance and acceptance.

Requirements

During several workshops, the requirements of the individual departments for racks, rack equipment, patch management in the racks, power distribution units (PDUs) as well as fiber optic and CU communication cabling were developed. Geiger analyzed the existing network topology, consolidated the requirements of the various stakeholders, and created an overall DC implementation concept named “Expansion Whitespace.” This consisted of several expansion stages to ensure uninterrupted operation during the implementation. This concept was presented and approved by the various departments. The final implementation concept comprised of a consistent and redundant, application-neutral, structured communication cabling in accordance with EN50600-4. The entire cable paths, main and area distributors, including the entire communication cabling, were built in physically separated A and B structures. In addition, important distribution nodes were additionally developed by a meshed fiber optic and CU cabling. The entire newly created technical equipment and infrastructure was designed and dimensioned with expansion areas to allow flexibility to support growing requirements beyond the existing data center needs. This ensures maximum uptime, in addition to high availability and stability, is given and maintained over the service life.

Replanning existing data center https://www.minkels.com/images/9sDWT/2021 -RZ1 - B-C-Reihe Innen.jpg

Based on the final data center implementation concept, a complete replanning of the existing data center areas was carried out. The new infrastructure had to be built in parallel with the existing infrastructure. To make this possible, the new A and B main distribution areas were created in the first stage to accommodate the future passive and active technology and infrastructure.

Geiger prepared all detailed plans and the execution, which included, among other things, DC area settlement including rack layout, cabling plans for the various cabling areas, rack settlement plans for the main area, and server racks, as well as route and label lists.

Due to the project being implemented during ongoing operations, the installation could only take place in defined sub-project stages. This ensured that the work of the Bavarian police was not affected. In close cooperation with the BLKA departments and in coordination with the commissioned specialist installer, Geiger developed a phased schedule. After successful installation, partial acceptances were carried out for the individual sub-areas and then taken over by the BLKA into productive data center operation.

To create free space for the construction of the new infrastructure, the hardware was moved to the new racks after the successful partial acceptances from the existing racks. Thus, the individual server rack rows could be rebuilt in stages. The original main distribution series was converted into a server rack series.

Good cooperation

Due to the good cooperation between the BLKA and Geiger throughout the entire project, the implementation went very smoothly. The objective of creating a reliable, future-proof, scalable and highly available data center was achieved, meeting all requirement-specific expectations. The structured cabling that has been installed has been running flawlessly since commissioning. In Geiger, BLKA has found a local and experienced partner that can provide a leading portfolio of data center solutions and fiber optic and CU communication cabling. Following the completion of this project, Geiger is continuing to provide support to the BLKA on current and planned projects.




Logo Dataplace provides more certainty in a 24/7 economy Logo Bulk Norway: building the world’s largest data centre campus on renewable energy Logo World’s largest data centre campus on renewable energy Logo Service Express built and operates one of the most efficient data centers in the UK Logo Tieto is expanding the biggest commercial data centre in Finland Logo From the ground to the Cloud with Interoute Logo New ultramodern, fully-equipped data center for the University of Groningen (RUG) Logo Sustainable data centre for the Krimpenerwaard municipality Logo University in Wageningen chooses Minkels Logo Legrand is a key supplier for Move-IT Technology’s migration service Logo Istanbul airport: new airport, new infrastructure Logo Infrabel - A close partnership on the tracks Logo Maroc Telecom provides data storage to SMEs at Casablanca data center Logo Easy IT architecture rollout through Global Consistency Logo Complete data centre solution for Infonet DC Estonia Logo UK-based Datum Datacentres selects Minkels’ VED system for its cutting-edge, London area facility Logo Vodafone Netherlands chooses Interconnect and Minkels data centre infrastructure Logo Swisscom relies on Minkels high-density (cooling) racks and monitoring services Logo The Data Center Group opts for partner that thinks along with them Logo Minkels provides an identical Equinix look-and-feel worldwide, also in Dubai Logo SenseLAN builds on Minkels Vertical Exhaust Duct Logo The data centre challenges of the Academic Medical Center (AMC) in Amsterdam Logo All IT Rooms uses Legrand Data Center Solutions in Heerlen NL Logo Freightliner & Comms Room Services implement Minkels Logo Pioneer Vancis: a modern data centre for the past thirty years Logo French ministries move data centres to Paris skyscraper Logo Crédit Agricole Bank chooses Minkels aisle containment Logo EvoSwitch is well prepared for future growth Logo If you can’t stand the heat, call for Raritan! Logo Mobile fallback data center for healthcare organization LENTIS Logo Strategic growth and collaboration with Interxion Logo Minkels global rack supplier Hitachi Logo Plieger opts for IT continuity and optimum availability Logo ESI Group deploys HPC Center in Paris with Minkels and Legrand Logo Telecity acquisition helps Equinix EMEA expand into new markets in Europe Logo Connectivity that helps keep Bavarian citizens safe Logo An interview with MainOne Logo Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel selects Minkels DX and H2O row-based cooling Logo MainOne plans to expand its data centre business MDXi Logo CEO Datacenter.com explains why Nexpand was the logical choice   Logo GB Muri modernises existing data centre and lowers fixed costs Logo High-density fibre & rack solution for Equinix France Logo IBAarau – renamed  Eniwa in 2018 -   upgrades data centre services Logo Sevel’s data center forms basis for daily production of 1,200 commercial vehicles Logo How Taboola overcame PDU failure in their data center Logo German company 23media expands into Europe with dedicated hosting offering Logo An interview with Michel Lanners, CIO of LU-CIX: “It’s more than just a product that has brought us together.” Logo Modular data centre for European ‘trusted cloud’ Logo NeoCenter Ouest places its trust in the Legrand Group for its data centre in Rochesur-sur-Yon Logo Multinational Atos chooses Minkels Free Standing Cold Corridor Logo Minkels offers comtrance GmbH complete and modular solution Logo MatrixCube perfect for Van Marcke CO2-neutral warehouse Logo Wolfsburg on the road to becoming a smart city