@CONTACT™'s site is Douglas County approved both as a satellite earth station facility as well as a terrestrial radio system microwave communication tower.  It is located on a 52-acre parcel. The property has 2 areas originally developed in 1984 by GTE Sprint:  Lower Earth Station and Upper Telecommunication Tower.  We are in the process of building out a new site for more antennas.  The teleport building is a hardened 3,600 square foot facility built by GTE.

Location:
On Hwy 67, 7 miles west of Sedalia, CO and 25 miles from downtown  Denver.

Altitude:
7140 ft

Coordinates: 
LAT 39.22.90 (NAD 27)    LON 105.02.90
 
Climate and Precipitation:
Denver area is typically dry and mild with clear skies and or some snow during winter Sedalia, Co Located at about 39.36°N 105.00°W. Height about 6174 feet ASL.


Security:
24x7 dial up monitoring provided by Ameritech.  Facility is gated and chain linked fenced (8 ft with barb-wire).  Exterior has mercury vapor lighting.


Police Protection:
Protection provided by Douglas Co Sheriff Dept located in Castle Rock (15 miles).  Area is regularly patrolled and response time is typically within 15 min at officer’s discretion.

Fire:
Fire protection is by the West Douglas Fire Protection District with station located within 2.5 miles.  The property maintains gravity fed water storage with fire hydrant.  A 10,000-gallon (with secondary 4,000 gallon) water cistern system for fire protection is located on the property.  This facility was designed in accordance with NFPA Regulations for rural fire protection.


Electrical Power:
Power is provided by IREA. We have a transformer with 3-phase, 500kva. A second single-phase transformer with 37.5kva is dedicated to our telecommunication tower which houses our OC3 microwave providing a diverse fiber path to our POP in Castle Rock. 

Critical power to the transmission facility is delivered via a commercial fully solid state Leibert power system. All utility power is kept totally separate to avoid noise and interference. The initial backup power is provided by full-time battery-backed UPS, which can produce up to 75 KW of 3-phase power for 15 minutes.  The UPS has the ability to automatically switch without interruption from commercial power to the on-site, diesel-powered generator in the event of a long-term power outage. The generator automatically starts up after 15 seconds of no commercial power.  All of the equipment is continuously on UPS so no interruption should occur.  On-site fuel storage guarantees operation for at least 72 hours. 

Fiber and Connectivity Infrastructure

We have 2 each Qwest provided SST/OC-3 fiber to central office Castle Rock (15 miles). This rides on 4 single mode fibers (2 transmit/receive and 2 protect-path).  There are 18 unlit fibers accessible to our property from Qwest.  From Castle Rock we have a provisioned DS3 to Qwest Denver Main with cross connect accessible to all major carriers.  

Qwest has been our primary fiber circuit provider for the past 7 years and all build out is performed by Qwest.  We currently have at our Teleport 2 each OC3 circuits with a channel bank of 28 T-1 circuits on one of our OC-3 with 2 each clear channel DS-3 circuits. Our other OC-3 has 3 clear channel DS-3 circuits.  ATCONTACT personnel have immediate access to Qwest engineers and trouble shooters in the event there is a problem.  Our diverse path OC3 helps to preclude any down time to/from our fiber POP. 

In addition to and also riding on our OC-3 is our internet backbone provider who provides a 100% uptime and availability on Internet Backbone with intelligent routing through 8 Tier 1 Providers.