[109543] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: an over-the-top data center
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew D Kirch)
Sun Nov 30 22:19:21 2008
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:19:05 -0500
From: Andrew D Kirch <trelane@trelane.net>
To: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
In-Reply-To: <7BC8AF1F-F91E-44C8-808F-D8DC14C30898@ianai.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
> On Nov 28, 2008, at 4:04 PM, Jean-François 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
> equipment there, visit it for any reason, etc.
>
> I was going to say 'this probably hinders customers adoption at
> NetNod', but I know for a fact the "probably" is superfluous.
>
Fault free datacenters include neither people, nor computers, nor
connectivity, nor HVAC, nor electricity. If you can eliminate those
things you will have a 100% uptime datacenter.
Andrew
