Chicago’s central location and position as one of North America’s most important network and business hubs provide organizations with exceptional connectivity to major markets across the United States and Canada. From Netrality’s Chicago colocation facility at 717 South Wells, businesses can achieve low-latency access to key Midwest, East Coast, and national destinations, enabling faster application performance, improved user experiences, and efficient connectivity between distributed infrastructure environments.
With direct access to a highly connected carrier-neutral ecosystem, organizations can build resilient, low-latency network architectures that support cloud connectivity, financial services, AI workloads, content delivery, disaster recovery, and other mission-critical applications. Whether connecting users in New York, Northern Virginia, Toronto, Minneapolis, Dallas, or other major markets, Chicago offers an ideal combination of performance, connectivity, and geographic reach.
The latency benchmarks shown here illustrate typical round-trip network performance from Chicago to major regional and national markets, helping organizations design scalable, high-performance infrastructure strategies while maintaining efficient connectivity to customers, partners, cloud providers, and business operations throughout North America.
Chicago’s Premiere Colocation Ecosystem
Premier core interconnection data center
Building owned and operated by Netrality
Retail colocation configurations include single cabinets, cages, private suites, and dedicated floor
On-net service provider deployments: 30+
24/7 network operations center (NOC)
Networks that peer: 19
Peering exchanges: 2
Diverse POEs (points of entry): 2
Pre-built innerduct from POEs to MMR
Diverse utility feeds: 12,400 kV
Backup generator power: N+1
Fuel supply: 5,700 gallons
UPS system: N+1
Robust and reliable colocation infrastructure ensuring uptime and efficiency.
Ceiling heights (slab to slab): 11’2”
Column spacing: 19’6
Floor loading: 125 lbs/sf
Freight elevators: 4,000 lbs capacity
Fire suppression: Pre-action dry-pipe
Cable management: Overhead ladder rack
Outside the 500-year flood plan
Critical facility monitoring system
Comprehensive security measures and compliance with Chicago data center industry standards protect your mission critical assets.
Three levels of access security
Two factor authentication MMR access
BioMetrics and facial recognition
24x7x365 NOC
On-site staffed security personnel
SSAE 16 SOC 2 Type 2, HIPAA Compliant, PCI Compliant
PCI compliant cages
Chilled water system: 600 Tons (2N)
Kyoto system and Delta Cube Cooling Technology
Generator protected
Data room HVAC: Kyoto Units (N+1), Delta Cube (N+1)
Cold-aisle & hot-aisle containment
Shared office environments available
Vendor touch-down space for clients
Customer tech lounge and conference rooms
Secure on-site storage space available
Secure single-bay loading dock
Secure WiFi
Advanced Networking Connectivity for Chicago Data Center Solutions
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717 South Wells St., Suite 600
Chicago, IL 60607