[109534] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: an over-the-top data center
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Fri Nov 28 16:33:24 2008
From: Joe Abley <jabley@hopcount.ca>
To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jean-Fran=E7ois_Mezei?= <jfmezei@vaxination.ca>
In-Reply-To: <49305CFB.9070703@vaxination.ca>
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 16:33:17 -0500
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On 2008-11-28, at 16:04, Jean-Fran=E7ois Mezei wrote:
> If you look at Toronto, the main carrier hotel is quite famous at 151
> Front Street, very near to the main train station, convention centre =20=
> etc
> (aka: right at the core of the downtown). People who do not know about
> the internet infrastructure may not realise what this building is =20
> about,
> but anyone who knows how ISPs operate would know the strategic
> importance of that building.
People who do not know that there's a Front Street East as well as a =20
Front Street West also like to fight their way through the mantrap to =20=
front desk security and demand to see the dentist.
So if anybody ever finds an operational advantage to having equipment =20=
in a building regularly visited by people with bad teeth, bear that in =20=
mind.
Joe
