[91864] in North American Network Operators' Group
AW: european colo/bandwidth facilites?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gunther Stammwitz)
Wed Aug 16 05:37:39 2006
From: "Gunther Stammwitz" <gstammw@gmx.net>
To: "'matthew zeier'" <mrz@velvet.org>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 11:37:04 +0200
In-Reply-To: <44E2B8EB.90006@velvet.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Hi,
You should either go to London or Amsterdam if you like to have a very
direct connection to the US or if you want to reach whole europe =
including
eastern european countries the only place to be is Frankfurt.
Costs of leased lines from the US to Frankfurt are the same as to
Amsterdam/London but you have some milliseconds more due to the =
additional
distance.
You should look for an isp that has direct connection to the DE-CIX, the
german internet exchange, because almost all of the eastern european =
isps
are connected to the DE-CIX too and they're becoming more and more. =
Check
http://www.de-cix.net/info/connected.html.
Regarding Datacenters I'd recommend RedBus, Telecity and IXEurope =
wherever
you are because of their good service.
If you're in Amsterdam it doesn't matter where you are because you can
connect to AMS-IX at any datacenter but most of the intl. Carriers are =
at
TELECITY2. In Frankfurt you can connect to the DE-CIX yourself at =
InterXion,
where most of the intl. Carriers are in this case, or Telecity. But =
remember
that InterXion is made for carriers and when hostings servers there you
won't have fun because of no technicians being there during the night =
and so
on.
Maybe you can find a carrier who's willing to support mozilla because =
they
are non-profit?? I'd know one :-))
If you need additional expertise regarding the Frankfurt- or
Amsterdam-market contact me via PM.
Gunther
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> Von: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] Im=20
> Auftrag von matthew zeier
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 16. August 2006 08:19
> An: nanog@merit.edu
> Betreff: european colo/bandwidth facilites?
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> My employer (Mozilla Corp) is looking to build out a site in=20
> Europe (and maybe, eventually Japan). Unfortunately I have=20
> little/no experience outside of "NA" and don't know which=20
> players (both for colo space and for bandwidth) would be best=20
> to talk to.
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> Looking for pointers, and sales folk are welcome to email as well.
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> - mz
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