[109542] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: an over-the-top data center
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Sun Nov 30 20:33:45 2008
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <49305CFB.9070703@vaxination.ca>
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 20:33:37 -0500
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On Nov 28, 2008, at 4:04 PM, Jean-Fran=E7ois Mezei wrote:
> The thing about a carrier hotel is that it cannot be a secret location
> since you need to allow various carriers and ISPs to have physical
> access to the building so they can install/manage their
> servers/routers/switches.
>
> The advantage of this swedish data centre is that even if its location
> is well known, it is pretty hard to harm the building. You can't run a
> truck full of explosives into it for instance.
Unfortunately, you also cannot run your own fiber there, colo =20
equipment there, visit it for any reason, etc.
I was going to say 'this probably hinders customers adoption at =20
NetNod', but I know for a fact the "probably" is superfluous.
--=20
TTFN,
patrick
