Kahnawake…..e-Gaming’s Pioneering Hub

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Kahnawake is located on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River, 9 miles south of downtown Montreal. Kahnawake’ s land base of 12,000 acres includes what is known as the Kahnawake Indian Reserve, supplemented by the Doncaster Indian Reserve, a territory near Ste-Agathe-des-Monts, Quebec. Additionally, the Mohawks of Kahnawake claim ownership of the Seigneurie de Sault St-Louis, a 1680 seigniorial grant which includes the current Reserve as well as 24,000 acres of additional land on the Reserve’ s eastern border, presently alienated from the Mohawks and occupied by a number of non-Indian municipalities. The Mohawk Territory of Kahnawake is governed by a Band Council called the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK). The Council is composed of a Grand Chief and eleven Chiefs elected by a plurality of votes in a biennial general election. Administrative and financial responsibility for the operations of the community is vested in the MCK. Mohawk Internet Technologies (MIT) is the community owned co-location data centre that supplies service to Continent 8 and other customers.

In the heart of North America's northeastern corridor, the MIT facility is connected to Continent 8 through our highly developed, internationally linked fibre optic network. This is supplemented by a plentiful and reliable power supply - critical requirements for the hosting of the ever increasing demands of e-business.

The key attributes of the Kahnawake data centre are as follows:

State-of-the-art

The site has been designed for high reliability Internet services with redundant generators, uninterruptible power supplies, air conditioning and connection to the Internet.

Space

  • 1,300 m2 of total floor space
  • 650 m2 of available technical space

Power

  • Fully redundant power systems
  • Generators capable of supporting full data centre load on permanent standby
  • Data centre designed for average power consumption of 7.5 kW per rack

Environment

  • Fully redundant cooling systems
  • Temperature maintained at 21 ± 2°C
  • Humidity maintained at 50 ± 10% RH

Fire Protection

  • FM-200 or NOVEC-1230 fire suppression system in all server rooms

Network

  • Client connectivity provided by Fast Ethernet or Gigabit Ethernet
  • SONET self-healing network provides OC-192 connectivity to Montreal using multiple carriers on diverse paths
  • Direct access to fibre-optic backbone into USA
  • Direct access to European networks via Trans-Atlantic link
  • Protection against DDoS attacks
  • Managed IP services to ensure maximum availability
  • Private connectivity to support disaster recovery applications

Monitoring

  • All network, electrical and mechanical systems electronically monitored

Security

  • Data centre manned by security guards on a 24x7 basis
  • Electronic access control to all sensitive areas
  • CCTV monitoring of perimeter area and sensitive internal areas
  • Man-trap to prevent open access to server room areas

Technical Support

  • Data centre technicians on-site on a 24x7 basis
  • International customers can rely on our onsite support for everything that cannot be done remotely