MillenniumIT®'s Corporate Headquarters and Software Development operations are located on the outskirts of Colombo, Sri Lanka.
The total usable “office space” is around 70,000 sq ft whereas the total built up space amounts to around 110,000 sq ft. The current buildings can house up to 500 software professionals. There are also several environmentally friendly water features and rainwater harvesting techniques used throughout the site. The complex operates on electricity drawn from the national grid. On-site generators supply power to the entire site on a permanent basis in the event of power failures. Underground fuel storage tanks allow the generators to be run for an entire month without the need for additional fuel supplies.
Facilities
The sports facilities comprise of a recreation centre for sports including squash, badminton, basketball, netball and a fully equipped gymnasium. The outdoor facilities include a cricket field, tennis courts and swimming pool.
The accommodation facilities comprise of 16 fully equipped rooms for staff "working late" or visitors/trainers from overseas. The accommodation building also includes a fully equipped crèche for staff with small children. The crèche is manned by a qualified teacher and helps young parents to focus on work with the knowledge that their children are "close by" and in "capable hands".
The campus is also equipped with a cafeteria and "fine dinning" restaurant facilities with meals being served three times a day.
Cutting edge networking connectivity
Voice and data connectivity is provided at the site via a fiber optic line. Designed by Cisco certified network architects, the network carries both voice and data through a single cable using Cisco's AVVID technology, which also enables video conferencing. Fiber and CAT 6 cabling (with redundancy) also connects each of the buildings at the site to each other and the backbone runs on a gigabyte Ethernet. This Ethernet backbone supports many applications such as voice telephony, Internet access, file transfers and other applications that work simultaneously on a single network. The network architecture also enables it to dynamically assign priority to sensitive applications (e.g. voice over, video conferencing).
The fiber network design is also based on a ring topology. This allows path redundancy, which means that a single point of failure in the network does not effect the smooth functioning in other parts of the network.
In addition, Cisco Aironet wireless networking technology has been used to enable employees to access the network even from outdoor locations on site making the site fully Wi-Fi enabled. The telephone network at the site is also fully IP (Internet Protocol) enabled with over 300 IP phones connected to the network. In addition to this, network architects have integrated a legacy PABX (Public Automated Branch Exchange) to the same network permitting other forms of phone traffic to operate on the same network.
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