M5 Hosting: LWDC Data Center

LWDC Data Center is the Lightwave Avenue Data Center used by M5 Hosting in San Diego, California, USA. On its official data center pages, M5 identifies the facility as LWDC Data Center / San Diego Lightwave Avenue Data Center and lists the address as 9305 Lightwave Ave, San Diego, CA 92123, United States of America. M5 presents the site as one of its two San Diego data center locations.

The facility is located in San Diego’s Spectrum area, a technology and business corridor in Southern California. M5 states that its two San Diego data centers are 13 miles apart, each with its own redundant Internet connectivity and private high speed transport between facilities, positioning LWDC for resilient regional deployments, colocation growth, and multi site infrastructure use cases.

⚙️ Facility Highlights

1. Facility identity (facility level): M5 identifies the site as San Diego Lightwave Avenue Data Center and LWDC.
2. Address (facility level): 9305 Lightwave Ave, San Diego, CA 92123, United States of America.
3. Facility scale (facility level): M5 states the Lightwave Avenue site is an 80,000 square foot facility.
4. Geographic positioning (facility level): M5 states the site is located in the San Diego Spectrum area.
5. Operational resilience (facility group level): M5 states both San Diego data centers are designed for zero impact maintenance.
6. Colocation configurations (facility level): M5 lists built to spec private colocation cages, locking cabinets in 13U, 17U, 26U, 44U, and 54U increments, and shared cabinet space in 1U increments.
7. Cooling architecture (facility level): M5 lists full data grade HVAC with N+1 redundancy, advanced hot aisle containment, less than 72°F ambient air temperature, and 45 percent humidity plus or minus 5 percent.
8. Network resilience (facility group level): M5 states each San Diego data center has its own redundant Internet connectivity plus private high speed transport between facilities.
9. Cloud deployment context (facility level): M5 labels the facility M5 Cloud Zone CA2.

🔐 Security & Compliance

1. Security-sensitive workload context (facility level): M5 states the facility has a history of housing critical applications for the U.S. Department of Defense, 911 Emergency, Public Safety, Law Enforcement, and Department of Corrections.
2. Secure customer environments (facility level): M5 lists private colocation cages and locking colocation cabinets.
3. Fire detection and suppression (facility level): M5 lists a dry pipe, pre action, double interlock fire suppression system with zone specific discharge.
4. Compliance certifications (facility level): M5 lists SSAE 16 SOC 1 Type 2, SSAE 16 SOC 2 Type 2, and SSAE 16 SOC 3 Type 2 for the facility.
5. San Diego facility group certification statement (facility group level): M5 also states both San Diego data centers are SAS 70 Type II certified and audited annually.
6. Operator-level security controls (operator level): M5 states its colocation environments use 24/7 staffing, 24/7 monitoring, and redundant infrastructure.

🌐 Connectivity & Carrier Access

M5 describes LWDC as a carrier neutral facility with a large meet me room, multiple fiber vaults with diverse entry points, and upstream providers at the location including Level 3 Communications, Cogent, and American Internet Services. M5 also states the site has peering to more than 100 networks via the Any2 Exchange at One Wilshire in Los Angeles and private Layer 2 transport to the San Diego Tech Center. These published details support the facility’s role in carrier access, regional interconnection, and hybrid infrastructure architectures.

💼 Who It Serves

1. Organizations requiring colocation in San Diego, based on M5’s published colocation services and facility configurations.
2. Customers needing private cages, locking cabinets, or shared cabinet space, based on LWDC’s published deployment options.
3. Businesses deploying multi site resilience, off site backup, and disaster recovery architectures, based on M5’s launch announcement for the second San Diego facility.
4. Connectivity driven deployments requiring carrier access and peering into Southern California and Los Angeles exchange ecosystems, based on the facility’s carrier neutral meet me room and Any2 peering access.