[109613] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: an over-the-top data center
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deepak Jain)
Tue Dec 2 17:18:57 2008
From: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
To: Charles Wyble <charles@thewybles.com>, "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 17:18:39 -0500
In-Reply-To: <4935B27F.2030307@thewybles.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
> > But we aren't talking about the military here, are we? We are talking
> about an ISP on an ISP forum.
> >
>=20
> Yes.... but in a disaster scenario where critical communication links
> are down the military would respond and reestablish the links, if for
> nothing else to re establish situational awareness for themselves.
This is getting off-topic in a big way, but I can pretty much assure you th=
at the US military isn't going to be re-establishing ISP circuits for the m=
ilitary's situational awareness. I can't speak of the Swedish military. In=
=20
most countries with a big-bad-military, the most the military will do is al=
low the commercial entities to expedite their own repairs and perhaps bypas=
s certain permit requirements -- which is as it should be.
If this is the reason to build a bomb proof datacenter, I encourage all my =
competitors to do so.
Someone said it earlier, its far cheaper, and far more reliable to be massi=
vely redundant than super hardened in one (or a few) locations. If you thin=
k you can't afford the former, but can get the latter, you don't understand=
what you are solving for.
Deepak
