What this means in plain terms
When a business needs to run servers, store data, or host applications, it has two basic choices: build and run its own server room, or place that equipment inside a purpose-built facility run by a specialist. The second option — colocation — is almost always safer and cheaper once a business grows past a small scale, because a purpose-built data centre has redundant power, cooling, physical security, and trained staff on-site around the clock.
Hispar Networks operates exactly this kind of facility, and unlike many providers in the market, Hispar owns and engineered the building itself rather than leasing space inside someone else's.
Greenfield SDN & the Cisco ACI Fabric
A traditional data centre network is built up over years, with switches and cabling added piecemeal as needs change — leaving inconsistent performance and a network that's hard to reconfigure. Hispar's facility was instead built as a "greenfield" deployment: designed and constructed from a blank slate around a single, modern architecture from day one.
That architecture is Software-Defined Networking (SDN) on a 100 gigabit-per-second Cisco ACI fabric — meaning the network's behaviour is controlled centrally through software policy rather than manually configured, switch by switch.
- Micro-segmentation of client & application traffic
- Automated, consistent policy enforcement
- Elimination of legacy, piecemeal network bottlenecks
Colocation and Space Options
Flexible configurations scaling from a single rack unit to fully dedicated private data halls.
Colocation (Colo)
Shared data-hall space with dedicated cabinet or rack allocation, suited to small and mid-sized deployments.
Dedicated Rack or Cage
A fully enclosed, client-exclusive rack or cage for organisations with stricter physical-security or compliance requirements.
Dedicated Data-Hall Space
An entire private data hall for the largest enterprise and government deployments.
Cross-Connects
Direct physical or logical connections between a client's equipment and another tenant, carrier, or cloud provider — avoiding the latency and cost of routing traffic outside the building.
Power-as-a-Service
Power delivery billed and managed as a service rather than a fixed capital installation, allowing capacity to scale with demand.
Remote Hands & Smarts
On-site Hispar engineers who can perform physical tasks — reboots, cabling, hardware swaps — on a client's behalf, without needing staff physically present in Lahore.
Facility Specifications
| Specification | Detail |
|---|---|
| Certification | ANSI/TIA-942-B Rated-3, certified by EPI (Singapore) |
| Redundancy Model | N+1 concurrent maintainability across power, cooling, and network paths |
| Architecture | Greenfield Software-Defined Network — the first purpose-built deployment of its kind in Pakistan |
| Switching Fabric | 100Gbps Cisco ACI (Application Centric Infrastructure) |
| Market Position | Biggest Tier-3 data centre in Pakistan's private sector; second largest data centre in the country overall |
| Disaster Recovery | Metro DR available in Lahore, with dedicated DR sites in Karachi and Islamabad |
| Service Levels | RTO/RPO (Recovery Time Objective / Recovery Point Objective) defined SLAs across all cloud and data centre tenants |
Lahore
HQ + Primary DC + Metro DR
Karachi
Dedicated DR Site
Islamabad
Dedicated DR Site
Disaster Recovery Footprint
Hispar's disaster recovery (DR) strategy spans three cities. The primary data centre and headquarters sit in Lahore, with metro-area DR capability available within the same city for the fastest possible failover, and dedicated DR sites in Karachi and Islamabad providing geographic separation in the event of a regional outage.
Every cloud and data centre tenant operates under RTO/RPO-defined SLAs — meaning the maximum acceptable time to restore service (RTO) and the maximum acceptable amount of data loss measured in time (RPO) are explicitly agreed and contracted, not left as a vague promise.
Performance & Efficiency Achievements
Operational metrics describing the efficiency of Hispar's data centre relative to industry norms.
| Metric | Result |
|---|---|
| Energy efficiency achieved | 45% |
| Reduction in hardware replacement | 80% |
| Less maintenance overhead year on year | 73% |
| Improvement in enterprise process delivery | 130%+ |
| Faster delivery | 59% |
| Electricity downtime | 0% |
| Expected asset & accessory uptime without replacement | 13+ years |
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