[103477] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: cooling door
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Hannigan)
Wed Apr 2 13:26:00 2008
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 13:25:06 -0400
From: "Martin Hannigan" <hannigan@gmail.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <D03E4899F2FB3D4C8464E8C76B3B68B002439D35@E03MVC4-UKBR.domain1.systemhost.net>
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On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 6:06 AM, <michael.dillon@bt.com> wrote:
>
>
> > I doubt we'll ever see the day when running gigabit across
> > town becomes cost effective when compared to running gigabit
> > to the other end of your server room/cage/whatever.
>
> You show me the ISP with the majority of their userbase located
> at the other end of their server room, and I'll concede the argument.
>
> Last time I looked the eyeballs were across town so I already have
> to deliver my gigabit feed across town. My theory is that you can
> achieve some scaling advantages by delivering it from multiple locations
> instead of concentrating one end of that gigabit feed in a big blob
> data center where the cooling systems will fail within an hour or two
> of a major power systems failure.
That would be a choice for most of us.
-M<
