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Re: an over-the-top data center

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin List-Petersen)
Mon Dec 1 16:53:45 2008

Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:53:26 +0000
From: Martin List-Petersen <martin@airwire.ie>
To: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20081201163426.2499b65c@cs.columbia.edu>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org

Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>
> HavenCo, which ran a datacenter on the "nation" of Sealand, is
> no longer operating there:
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/25/havenco/ 
>
>
> 		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
>   

If you do a bit more research on that one, it never got to a serious 
point. They had one 802.11b onto the platform and never got very far 
with it. No fiber and no redundancy.

However the idea was a bit of a novelty, because it's claimed to be 
sovereign territory.

Kind regards,
Martin List-Petersen

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