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Re: data center space

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Boyle)
Fri Apr 21 10:39:48 2006

Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 10:39:18 -0400
To: Joseph S D Yao <jsdy@center.osis.gov>
From: Robert Boyle <robert@tellurian.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20060421105130.GD11585@core.center.osis.gov>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


At 06:51 AM 4/21/2006, you wrote:
>On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 09:34:41AM -0700, Philip Lavine wrote:
> >
> > Can someone tell me if I am out of luck. I am trying to get a 
> 10x10 cage in New Jersey (Jersey City area) but it seems everybody 
> is at capacity. What happened?
>
>My guess (this being NJ) is an aftereffect of the 9/11/2001 disaster.
>By five years after, most companies who could be affected by such an
>outage may have relocated a continuing-operations set of machines to one
>or more colo data centers.  I don't know why the data centers would not
>have expanded to meet the influx, though.

I think most of us have expanded. :)  I know Focal/Broadwing has 
space in Jersey City at 1 Evertrust Plaza. Joe, I know you aren't the 
original poster, but I'm hoping he or she is still reading this thread too.

-Robert



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