[109535] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: an over-the-top data center
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Warren Kumari)
Fri Nov 28 19:22:27 2008
From: Warren Kumari <warren@kumari.net>
To: Joe Abley <jabley@hopcount.ca>
In-Reply-To: <CBF3BA83-F6F4-4D0A-AD77-58FC382EF667@hopcount.ca>
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 19:23:09 -0500
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Nov 28, 2008, at 4:33 PM, Joe Abley wrote:
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> On 2008-11-28, at 16:04, Jean-Fran=E7ois Mezei wrote:
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>> If you look at Toronto, the main carrier hotel is quite famous at 151
>> Front Street, very near to the main train station, convention =20
>> centre etc
>> (aka: right at the core of the downtown). People who do not know =20
>> 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.
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> 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 =20
> to front desk security and demand to see the dentist.
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> So if anybody ever finds an operational advantage to having =20
> equipment in a building regularly visited by people with bad teeth, =20=
> bear that in mind.
Hey, some of the best network engineers I have met are British....
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> Joe
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