[158954] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fiber only in DataCenters?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Mon Dec 17 13:01:41 2012
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <CA+qj4S-uSdfOogkxmTS5=kQsQ-BO4Tf6ZD65wBDQMU23pjm7xQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 10:01:15 -0800
To: Andrew Latham <lathama@gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Dec 17, 2012, at 09:14 , Andrew Latham <lathama@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 12:01 PM, James Wininger =
<jwininger@ifncom.net> wrote:
>> Hello all,
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>> Looking for input from "providers" as well as "consumers" of data =
center space and facilities. Specifically speaking to the types of =
available physical cross connects.
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>> Are there data centers out there that are "fiber only"? That is to =
say that the cross connects are fiber only and no copper cross connects =
are available?
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>> I understand that fiber is great and all, but to my knowledge there =
are a lot of folks still using and needing copper cross connects. Am I =
wrong?
>> --
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>> Jim
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> In general the physical size and space needed for security make fiber
> a requirement. Copper is very useful but ladder racks and managed
> cabling can make runs much longer. Fiber is simply the next scale.
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I have yet to see a datacenter that doesn't offer both.
That does not mean that all runs within any given datacenter can be done =
via copper, but I don't now of any datacenters that do not make copper =
cross-connects available to customers that wish to purchase them.
Owen
