[62532] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "Class A Data Center"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Thu Sep 18 16:55:53 2003
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 15:55:13 -0500
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <01fa01c37e22$256e2870$1600a8c0@Andrew>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
andrew2@one.net wrote:
> Particularly of interest would be "established standards" for "Class A
> Datacenter" specifically relating to the physical plant -- Power,
> cooling, physical security, etc. I think we can all agree in general on
> N+1 everything, and we can go round and round again on what exactly
> constitutes "Tier-1 provider," but what about the physical space itself?
> I can put a fully-redundant network with multiple "Tier-1" connections
> in my garage but I still wouldn't consider my garage to then be a "Class
> A Datacenter."
>
And let's not forget that they need to have good staffing, especially
the abuse department.
-Jack
