University of Pittsburgh: NOC

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University of Pittsburgh: NOC

Year Built: 1971
Utility Provider: Duquesne Light
Ownership: University of Pittsburgh owns the building.
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The University of Pittsburgh runs its Network Operations Center (NOC) in the RIDC Park in O'Hara Township, north-east of the Oakland campus. The building houses university servers, network equipment and the research computing clusters of Pitt's Center for Research Computing and Data, linked to the main campus by two 100 Gbps connections. Pitt first moved its Computer Center here in 1971, and a $5 million overhaul turned it into the NOC in 2004.

Site History

  • 2004: Pitt completes the NOC after a $5 million overhaul.
  • 1971: Pitt's Computer Center opens in the RIDC Park.

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0.53 miles Ascent Data: Pittsburgh
Ascent Data runs a SOC 2 audited data center for its managed IT and colocation customers in the RIDC Park in O'Hara Township, north-east of Pittsburgh.
4.40 miles aspStation: Pittsburgh
aspStation runs a small colocation and cloud data center in its own building on Penn Avenue in Pittsburgh's East End, built by IBM in 1990.
4.48 miles iM Critical: Pittsburgh
iM Critical's Pittsburgh campus is a modular high-density data center site on Brinton Road at the Wilkinsburg-Edgewood border, east of downtown.
5.15 miles Verizon: 530 N Neville St
Verizon's Oakland central office in Pittsburgh holds the host switch that now serves many of the area's former exchanges, plus a regional signaling hub.
5.24 miles Dynamo DC: Springdale
Dynamo DC plans a single large AI data center on the site of the former Cheswick Generating Station in Springdale, north-east of Pittsburgh.
5.63 miles Cogent: 3126 Liberty Ave
Cogent's Pittsburgh data center is a colocation facility in the former Sprint network building on Liberty Avenue, at the edge of the Strip District.
6.44 miles H5 Pittsburgh
H5 Pittsburgh is a colocation data center in Pittsburgh's Strip District that H5 Data Centers bought from vXchnge in 2022.
6.50 miles Lumen: Pittsburgh 2
Lumen's Pittsburgh 2 site is a network switching and colocation building on Technology Drive in the Pittsburgh Technology Center.
7.13 miles Lumen Pittsburgh 1
Lumen's Pittsburgh 1 site is a network gateway and colocation building on South 25th Street in Pittsburgh's South Side Flats.
7.44 miles Consolidated Evergreen
Consolidated Communications resold colocation space inside MSA's Evergreen Heights data center north of Pittsburgh until about 2025.
7.44 miles AT&T: 635 Grant St
AT&T's 16-story network building at 635 Grant Street in downtown Pittsburgh, owned by Reign Capital since a 2021 sale-leaseback.
7.45 miles MSA: Evergreen Hights
MSA's Evergreen Heights data center is a Tier III-designed colocation facility in a hillside bunker in Ross Township, north of Pittsburgh.
7.45 miles Verizon: 416 7th Ave
Verizon's Downtown Pittsburgh central office in the 20-story Bell Telephone Building houses the area's main tandem switch and a regional signaling hub.
7.52 miles Verizon: 3 Allegheny Ctr
A former XO Communications network and colocation node at 3 Allegheny Center on Pittsburgh's North Side; the building now holds apartments.
7.57 miles DataBank Pittsburgh PIT1
DataBank PIT1 is a carrier-neutral colocation data center in Nova Place on Pittsburgh's North Side that hosts the Pittsburgh Internet Exchange.
7.58 miles Expedient Pittsburgh (North Side)
Expedient's North Side data center is a colocation and cloud facility in Nova Place, the former Allegheny Center Mall, on Pittsburgh's North Side.
7.67 miles Consolidated Rockpointe
Consolidated Communications resold colocation space inside MSA's RockPointe data center in West Deer Township until about 2025.
7.67 miles MSA: Rockpointe
MSA's RockPointe data center is the original Tier III colocation facility of Management Science Associates, in West Deer Township north-east of Pittsburgh.
7.76 miles DQE Communications Pittsburgh
DQE Communications' downtown Pittsburgh colocation room and network node inside the Pittsburgh Tech Center at 322 Fourth Avenue.
7.77 miles E.V. Bishoff: Pittsburgh Tech Center
The Pittsburgh Tech Center at 322 Fourth Avenue is E.V. Bishoff's downtown data center and telecom building, home to DQE and several colocation providers.
8.30 miles American Tower: Pittsburgh
American Tower's Pittsburgh edge data center is a small modular colocation facility at a tower site in southern Pittsburgh.
8.73 miles Next Tier Connect: Pittsburgh East
Next Tier Connect Pittsburgh East is a mission-critical technology campus in the former Westinghouse Energy Center in Monroeville that hosts the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center's Bridges-2.
9.31 miles EdgeConneX Pittsburgh
EdgeConneX Pittsburgh is an edge colocation data center west of downtown Pittsburgh in a building EdgeConneX owns.
10.06 miles Expedient Pittsburgh (Green Tree)
Expedient's Green Tree data center is the company's original Pittsburgh colocation facility, in Green Tree Borough south-west of downtown.
12.59 miles TECfusions: New Kensington, PA
TECfusions' Keystone Connect is an AI data center campus at the former Alcoa Technical Center in Upper Burrell Township, north-east of Pittsburgh.
14.59 miles Ardent (Northern Data): Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Ardent Data Centers, part of Northern Data, runs an AI-ready colocation data center in Robinson Township, west of Pittsburgh.
15.16 miles Henderson Road Data Center
Hendricks Group proposes a large data center campus with its own gas power plant on a former landfill on Henderson Road in Elizabeth Township, Allegheny County.
16.86 miles DataBank Pittsburgh PIT2
DataBank PIT2 is a colocation data center in a former PNC Bank data center in North Fayette Township, west of Pittsburgh, where PNC remains a tenant.

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The University of Pittsburgh is a state-related research university, founded in 1787 as the Pittsburgh Academy and designated state-related by Pennsylvania in 1966. Its main campus is in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, with regional campuses in Bradford, Greensburg, Johnstown and Titusville. Joan Gabel is chancellor.

Pitt IT runs the university's Network Operations Center at 600 Epsilon Drive in RIDC Park, O'Hara Township, northeast of the city. The facility houses university servers and network equipment and the research clusters of the Center for Research Computing and Data, with two 100 Gbps links to the main campus. Pitt and Carnegie Mellon University jointly run the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center.

University of Pittsburgh History:

  • In 2004, Pitt moved its central servers and network equipment into the renamed Network Operations Center after a $5 million overhaul of its Computer Center.
  • In December 1971, the university opened its Computer Center in a purpose-built facility at RIDC Park.
  • In 1966, Pennsylvania designated Pitt a state-related university.
  • Founded in 1787 in Pittsburgh.
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