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Smart Hands in Chennai

Reboot Monkey provides smart hands in Chennai: technical work inside the data center that needs diagnostic judgement and configuration knowledge, carried out by Reboot Monkey field engineers. This covers on-site IT support in Chennai data centers for servers, network equipment and cabling, in facilities owned and run by other operators.

Smart Hands

  • 8

    services detailed for Chennai

  • 1

    agreement for every city

Plan your Chennai smart hands request

Tell us about the equipment and the work you need done. Prices are quoted on request and depend on the customer and the size of the job.

In depth

Smart Hands: 8 sections, open any to read more.

Smart Hands in Chennai

Bharti Airtel Santhome stands on Bharti Towers in Chennai. Smart hands is the part of datacenter support that goes beyond a reboot or a cable check: the engineer has to diagnose a fault, decide what to change and apply a configuration. Reboot Monkey is a third-party datacenter services operator. It does not own or run the facility. For a CTO or IT director, that means the work on your equipment is done by an engineer who answers to your instructions and to the operator's rules, with no hosting platform of ours sitting between you and your hardware.

Datacenter Facilities in Chennai

Data centres in Chennai, ordered by the number of networks present:

  • Bharti Airtel Santhome (Bharti Airtel Limited), Bharti Towers, 101 Santhome High Road, Chennai 600 028: 89 networks
  • TATA Communications Chennai (TATA Communications Ltd), 4th floor, 2nd block, Chennai 600 002: 81 networks; carriers Netlayer Global Fabric and Reliance Jio
  • Sify Tidel-DC- Chennai (Sify Technologies Limited), Sify Technologies Limited II Floor, TIDEL Park, No.4, Canal Bank Road, Taramani, Chennai 600113: 60 networks
  • STTGDC CHN1, 4, Swami Sivananda Salai, Chennai 600002: 43 networks; carriers Netlayer Global Fabric and Reliance Jio
  • Nxtra Data Chennai DC 1 (Nxtra Data Ltd), Plot No: F8, SIPCOT IT Park, Siruseri, Navallur, Kancheepuram Distt, Chennai 600103: 18 networks
  • CtrlS Chennai DC2 (CtrlS Datacenters Ltd), 20, 3rd Main Rd, Old Ambattur, Sai Nagar, Ambattur Industrial Estate, Chennai 600058: 17 networks; carriers CtrlS Connect and Reliance Jio
  • Netmagic Chennai (NTTCINS), 67, Mathiravedu, Velappanchavadi Poonamallee high road, Chennai 600077: 11 networks
  • Reliance Chennai IDC (Reliance Communications Limited), Reliance Communications Infrastructure Limited, Reliance House, No-6, Haddows Road, Nungambakkam, Chennai, India - 600006: 11 networks
  • CtrlS Chennai DC1 (CtrlS Datacenters Ltd), 20, 3rd Main Rd, Old Ambattur, Sai Nagar, Ambattur Industrial Estate, Chennai 600058: 8 networks
  • Nxtra Data Chennai DC 2 (Nxtra Data Ltd), A32& A33,3rd cross street, First Cross Road, Siruseri, SIPCOT IT Park, Chennai 603103: 7 networks

Our Smart Hands Services

A smart hands request starts with a brief from you: what the equipment is, what the symptom or the target state is, and what you want checked or changed. A Reboot Monkey engineer is dispatched to the facility, works on the equipment under the operator's access rules and reports back on what was found and what was done. Where a job is closer to a physical task, the same engineer can carry out remote hands work such as reboots, cable checks, component swaps and visual checks. Where it needs more, the scope extends across the services below.

  • Fault diagnosis on servers, switches and cabling, with the findings reported back to you.
  • Rack and stack: installing, mounting and cabling new hardware.
  • Server migration: moving equipment between racks, rooms or facilities.
  • Cabling in the customer's rack: Reboot Monkey orders the cross connects and carrier circuits from the facility operator and the carriers present, and its engineers install and patch the cabling.
  • Fibre checks: a fibre inspection scope and cleaning kit are available on request.
  • Hardware monitoring of your servers and network equipment by the Reboot Monkey NOC, so that a fault can lead to a dispatch.

Why Reboot Monkey

Reboot Monkey sells the rack space, IP transit, leased IP addresses, network and data-centre hardware, together with the services that deliver, install and support them, inside data centers that other companies own and run. Because smart hands sits alongside those products, one supplier can order your circuits, install your hardware and then support it. For site coverage, a second, briefed Reboot Monkey engineer is named as backup for every customer site, so an absence on the primary engineer's side does not leave your rack without a briefed person. Prices are quoted on request and depend on the customer and the size of the job. As of 2026, Reboot Monkey's field engineers work in 190 countries and more than 400 locations, which lets a multi-site customer run the same request process in each place.

How Reboot Monkey Works

These terms apply in every facility in Chennai where Reboot Monkey engineers work.

  • Response: 1-hour, around-the-clock incident response SLA, and a 15 minute premium response available where technicians are stationed on-site, as a paid add-on. The incident response SLA covers incidents and unplanned requests; on-site, dispatch and resolution times, priority tiers, and planned or scheduled work are agreed per site in the service agreement.
  • Monitoring: 24/7 NOC monitoring across all facilities, covering IPMI, iDRAC, SNMP, temperature, power, network signals.
  • Hardware: vendor-neutral technicians for Dell, HP, Cisco, Juniper and Arista equipment.
  • Independence: independent from facility operators (not Equinix SmartHands, not NTT staff).
  • One agreement: single provider across cities, so a customer in several cities needs only one agreement.
  • Service levels and terms: https://www.rebootmonkey.com/en/solutions/sla
  • Published case study: a major ICT provider engaged Reboot Monkey for three full infrastructure rollouts in Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad, with the hardware installed the same day at every site. Read the case study at https://www.rebootmonkey.com/en/resources/case-study/how-we-completed-3-full-deployments-across-pakistan

Smart Hands

The data centres we work in hold their own certifications, such as ISO/IEC 27001 and ISO 9001. Ask us for the certificate of your site.

Smart Hands in Other Cities in India

If your equipment is spread across more than one Indian city, the same smart hands process applies elsewhere in the country. A team that runs infrastructure in Chennai and in the west of India can raise requests for both through the same supplier. For the Mumbai side of such a footprint, see Smart Hands in Mumbai, where the same request flow of brief, dispatch, work under the operator's rules and report applies.

Related Services

Smart hands is often ordered next to the space and network that the equipment runs on. If you are still placing equipment, Colocation in Chennai covers the rack space side, and Reboot Monkey engineers can then rack, cable and support what you install. Rack and stack, server migration, data center decommissioning, IT asset disposition and hardware monitoring are available as separate services, so a project can start as a single smart hands visit and grow into a planned install or a hardware refresh without changing supplier.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does smart hands cover in Chennai?

Smart hands covers technical work that needs diagnostic judgement and configuration knowledge, carried out in the data center by a Reboot Monkey field engineer. That includes diagnosing faults on servers and network equipment, installing and patching cabling in your rack, and related physical tasks such as reboots, cable checks and component swaps. The engineer works under the facility operator's site rules.

Do you provide on-site IT support in Chennai data centers?

Yes. Reboot Monkey field engineers are dispatched to the customer's equipment in the data center and work on it on site. You send a brief describing the equipment and the symptom or target state, the engineer carries out the work under the operator's access rules, and reports back. A second briefed engineer is named as backup for every customer site.

Do you work in every datacenter in Chennai?

Reboot Monkey engineers work in any facility in Chennai where the customer has equipment and access, under the operator's own access and safety rules. The customer adds the engineers to the facility's access list before the first visit.

How fast can Reboot Monkey respond in Chennai?

Incidents and unplanned requests are handled under a 1-hour, around-the-clock incident response SLA. There is also a 15 minute premium response available where technicians are stationed on-site, as a paid add-on. On-site, dispatch and resolution times, priority tiers, and planned or scheduled work are agreed per site in the service agreement.

How is Reboot Monkey different from the facility operator's own staff?

Facility operators' own technicians work for the building. Reboot Monkey engineers work for the customer: they are independent from facility operators (not Equinix SmartHands, not NTT staff), follow the customer's instructions, and the same team can cover several buildings in the city under one agreement.

How do I get started with smart hands in Chennai?

Send the site, the equipment and the task through the contact form. Reboot Monkey replies with a quote and an engineer plan for that facility. Once agreed, the customer adds the engineers to the facility's access list and the smart hands work is scheduled under the operator's rules.

Plan your Chennai smart hands request

Tell us about the equipment and the work you need done. Prices are quoted on request and depend on the customer and the size of the job.

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