Convenience is everything! Being able to pop into your local PayPoint store to pay your regular household bills, load up your gas or electricity meter, top up your mobile phone or make many other payments in cash. PayPoint is an international leader in payment technologies, its solutions transforming payments for everyone from consumer and financial services companies to retailers, utilities, media, e- commerce, gaming, and government clients. 

PayPoint delivers payments and services by taking the complexity of multi-channel payments and translating it into convenient, simple, value-added solutions. It handles over £14 billion from 775 million transactions annually for more than 6,000 clients and merchants. With the backing of 24/7 operations centres with dual site processing, PayPoint is widely recognised for its leadership in payment systems, smart technology, and service.PayPoint currently have 26,700 terminals in newsagents, convenience stores, supermarkets, garages, and off-licences across the UK. ‍

In 2009 PayPoint needed to increase the cooling density of their data centre by 50% without having to expand the real estate footprint and required a cost-effective cooling solution to enable this. The site had an existing 40kW + 40kW CRAC DX system for which they required a Tier 3 (N+1) redundancy working system to attach to their existing infrastructure. The project had to be installed and commissioned without any downtime to their server room operations as this is a critical Government hosting site. ‍

The design comprised of 22 racks and a mixture of 15 C4 and C8 ColdLogik Rear Door Coolers (RDC’s). Some RDC’s were retrofitted to existing cabinets via interface frames onto, the rest onto USpace ColdLogik compliant cabinets all of which were installed into the working data centre without any shutdown of operations. The ColdLogik solution increased the kW capacity from 40kW to 100kW - as the building was on the edge of utility power feed maximum it also reduced this by 16kW (60-80amps). 

The combined solution enabled a room density of 2-7kW per rack with duty transfers between racks during a 24-hour period. Prefabricated pipe work was utilised to enable a quick installation and the ColdLogik solution replaced the overloaded CRAC system which was retained as a backup.