[109584] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: an over-the-top data center
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Tue Dec 2 01:49:20 2008
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 07:49:04 +0100 (CET)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <D338D1613B32624285BB321A5CF3DB250C827745B9@ginga.ai.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Mon, 1 Dec 2008, Deepak Jain wrote:
> 3) No one cares if the server farm is blast proof (it isn't), if the
> connectivity in/out of it gets blasted (submessage: silos were meant to
> deliver one thing, datacenters aren't in the same operational model once
> they need connectivity to the outside world)
It's much easier to restore fiber connectivity in a time of crisis than it
is to source hardware manufacturered at the other end of the world and
have this set up properly. I do think there is value in keeping the hw
safer than the connectivity to the outside.
I bet the military or emergency services can establish a 10km fiber
stretch in a few hours. Replacing some telecom hw and set it up from
scratch would probably take weeks (I'm not talking about a single router
here).
--
Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
