[93830] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Collocation Access
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (chuck goolsbee)
Thu Dec 28 12:05:31 2006
In-Reply-To: <E7C7DA99-3D03-4F83-9D2B-520F538AF0C7@icann.org>
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 09:04:37 -0800
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: chuck goolsbee <chucklist@forest.net>
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>Indeed. I'm surprised the market hasn't produced facilities with
>better thought through and executed security and access controls. Is
>there not enough competition in each metro area for anything other
>than lowest common denominator?
From what I've seen? No.
At the moment, the top priority of colocation customers is power
availability, followed swiftly by price.
It is slowly turning into a seller's market - IF the facility has
available power (and I pity those facilities who are at their
limits), but the customer is still primarily picking on $s alone.
WRT security process and procedures, most customers seem to be just
interested if they exist. Of course they want them applied very
strictly to everyone else but THEM.
--chuck
