[145223] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: facebook spying on us?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Mattinen)
Fri Sep 30 18:58:49 2011
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:58:19 -0700
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On 9/30/11 3:41 PM, Michael Painter wrote:
> Steven G. Huter wrote:
>> this August 2011 article in the Economist outlines some relevant info
>> about the prineville, oregon FB datacenter.
>>
>> http://www.economist.com/node/21525237
>>
>> steve
>
> Informative article..."It's the climate, stupid".
>
> Got a laugh out of:
> "The server racks are nearly silent, and their internal fans whirr
> almost imperceptibly.
> The only exceptions are network switches which, Facebook staff notes,
> are perversely designed by even the biggest firms to vent air out of
> their sides. As a result, they run loud and hot-and are openly sworn at."
>
Which says to me that FB staff has no clue how chassis switches are
constructed, or they don't like switches with vertically oriented line
cards.
~Seth
