[156179] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Are people still building SONET networks from scratch?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Petach)
Mon Sep 10 18:15:19 2012
In-Reply-To: <504E5770.9050804@foobar.org>
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 15:14:24 -0700
From: Matthew Petach <mpetach@netflight.com>
To: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> wrote:
> On 10/09/2012 21:43, Matthew Petach wrote:
>> If service is critical enough to me that 20 second hiccups make
>> a difference, I'll find two providers to provide connectivity
>
> um, what do you mean, "two providers"?
>
>> to the location via relatively cheap waves
>
> This *is* a troll, right...?
>
> just sayin' that not everywhere has functional competition...
>
> Nick
*heh* Fair enough. I guess it's really a question of
what scale you're looking at. Even when building a
greenfield datacenter in the middle of an empty field
in an out-of-the-way corner of a state with cheap
electricity, you can generally find two fiber providers
that will run fiber into the location based on the
premise of the long-term payback a 50MW datacenter
brings with it.
At smaller scales, I could see how it could become
more challenging to convince a second provider it's
worth their while to build out to your location.
point taken--thanks!
Matt
