For hyperscale, AI and HPC, colocation, enterprise, financial-services, public-sector, telecoms and media data centres.
Strategy, design, build, migration and operations, delivered by one team of engineers across Europe, North America, the Middle East and APAC.
We cover the whole data centre lifecycle. We advise on strategy and site selection, source the space and the connectivity, design the white space and the M&E behind it, build and cable the hall, migrate live environments into it and run it afterwards with smart hands and managed services. Our own engineers do the work on site, to the same standards and documentation in every country.
01The lifecycle
Most providers cover a piece of the lifecycle. We cover all of it, so nothing is lost between the people who plan a hall, the people who build it and the people who run it.
01 Stage 1 of 6
Before anything is bought or built: where capacity should go, which providers can host it, and whether an existing site is ready for what is coming.
02 Stage 2 of 6
Independent sourcing and the commercial work around space and connectivity, compared across 330+ providers and 1,600+ data centres with AVANT Pathfinder.
03 Stage 3 of 6
Greenfield and brownfield design, grey space and white space, sized for the density the hall has to carry on day one and in the years after.
04 Stage 4 of 6
Fit-out, M&E installation and structured cabling by our own engineers, tested and documented to TIA/EIA, ISO/IEC and BICSI standards.
05 Stage 5 of 6
Moving live environments with runbooks, rehearsals and go/no-go gates, from a single cabinet to a full facility, then commissioning what lands.
06 Stage 6 of 6
Running the hall once it is live: 24/7 monitoring, smart hands and incident response, with the programme management and carrier coordination around them.
02Solutions
Eight solutions, each run by engineers who have done the work in live data halls, plus every service on its own. Workplace Technology, the eighth, has its own site.
Independent advice, grounded in what works on site.
Vendor-neutral sourcing across 330+ providers and 1,600+ data centres, powered by AVANT Pathfinder.
Site evaluation and design through construction, commissioning and handover.
Relocation and consolidation of live IT environments, planned, rehearsed and validated.
Hands-on cabling, network and DCOps engineering, from server rooms to hyperscale halls.
The power, cooling, containment and fire systems behind the white space.
24/7 monitoring, smart hands and incident response, on five service tiers.
From assessments and cabling to white glove logistics, ITAD and secure storage.
03Inside an AI hall
AI racks draw more power, need liquid cooling and carry far more fibre than the halls built before them. Pick a part of the hall to see what we do there.
Cat6A, single-mode and multimode fibre, and MPO/MTP trunks between the rows and the meet-me room. Designed, terminated, tested and documented to TIA/EIA, ISO/IEC and BICSI standards, with every link certified on TREND Networks testers.
Structured CablingRacks spaced, levelled, bonded and secured. Equipment mounted on the right rail kits with the weight spread, patched to bend radius and labelled, then handed over with rack elevations, inventories and patch schedules.
Rack, Stack & PatchRack layout, hot and cold aisle containment, cable management and airflow, planned around the density the hall has to carry and installed by our own teams.
White Space DesignThe chain from incoming supply through transformers, switchgear and UPS to the busway, tap-offs and rack PDUs, designed and installed by our M&E engineers.
M&E EngineeringPrecision air, chilled water, in-row cooling and the liquid loop that high-density racks need, designed with the white space and commissioned with leak and flow tests.
Liquid cooling guideEquipment received, inspected and serial-captured, then firmware, BIOS and network settings applied and tested against your build sheet, so the only job left in the hall is the physical install.
Staging & ConfigurationCommissioning from factory and site acceptance through to integrated systems testing, every link certified, snagging closed and a documented handover pack.
Design & BuildOnce the hall is live: 24/7 monitoring, smart hands and incident response, on one of five service tiers from On-Call to Embedded.
Managed Services04Where we work
Our engineers have delivered projects on four continents, and they work to the same standards and documentation in every one of them.
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05Industries
Each sector runs its data centres differently. We work to the documentation, security and uptime each one expects.
All industries
Greenfield builds, live expansions and multi-phase rollouts inside some of the largest data centre environments in the world.
Design, build and operations support for multi-tenant halls, built to the uptime and density their customers expect.
Secure, resilient infrastructure where every change is documented and tested before it goes live.
Low-latency, high-bandwidth environments for content delivery, broadcast and streaming, built to stay on air.
Government, defence and education environments, with the clearances, frameworks and standards they require.
The physical layer networks rely on: fibre backbones, structured cabling and carrier-grade infrastructure, at the core and at the edge.
06Proof
From our case studies, anonymised, in the words of the people who ran them on the client side.
3countries,
one standard
A global technical consultancy needed one documented copper and fibre design for London, Frankfurt and Singapore, ready for HPC from day one. We ran discovery, designed to each region’s regulations, wrote a single cabling, labelling and documentation standard, then installed it. Every link was tested and certified, within the original quote.
“Partnering with Optronix enabled us to define and implement a global standard for our data centers. It’s been a pleasure working with the team.”
0downtime to
live services
A global software company working in AI and HPC had to leave expiring leases in two cities. A dedicated Optronix project manager ran a seven-stage process, with a runbook of named owners and a structured change process. No hardware failures, on schedule and on budget, with a smaller footprint at the end.
“The team at Optronix were great to work with, really organised, transparent, always on the ball. The migration went smoother than we expected, no disruption to live services.”
24×7×365, across three
European cities
A hyperscale cloud provider replaced an incumbent that kept missing its SLAs. We integrated with the client’s ticketing, worked to client-approved procedures and closed every job with photos, notes and clear escalation paths. Every request has landed inside SLA.
“Optronix have been a breath of fresh air compared to our last partner. Easy to work with, quick to get things done, reliable.”
250rack, cable and
configure projects
Four cities in parallel for a hyperscale cloud provider, with an on-site manager at each location reporting to one project manager and one method everywhere. Our process improvements were adopted into the client’s own build documentation.
“Simply put, Optronix have helped us achieve a more efficient way of deploying our DCs.”
07Partners
Companies that extend what we can do in sourcing, supply chain, design, tooling and testing.
New
Independent, vendor-neutral sourcing with AVANT Pathfinder, comparing providers and data centres on real data and live pricing.
330+ providers1,600+ data centres
Racks, containment, cooling, power and busbar through Minkels, Raritan, Server Technology, Starline and USystems.
We certify with the LanTEK IV-S, which tests a Cat6A link in seven seconds, and report through AnyWARE Cloud.
Distribution and supply chain across EMEA, the Americas and APAC, so we can procure at scale.
Technical drawings, BIM modelling, 3D visualisation and design documentation.
Our sister company: bespoke DCIM, real-time environmental monitoring and operations ticketing.
Specialist technology and engineering services across the UK, Europe and the US, with the backing to mobilise faster.
08Insights
Technical guides and market briefings across the lifecycle, with interactive tools and a global data centre map.
Technical guide
Technical guide
Migration playbook
Technical guide
09Workplace Technology
Every piece of technology in a new office, and the fit-out works around it, designed, installed and tested by one Optronix team. Offices are the other half of what we do.
