[94610] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Birmingham UK colocation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Mon Jan 29 16:19:13 2007
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Cc: NANOG Off-topic Gripes <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Joe Abley <jabley@ca.afilias.info>
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:16:46 -0500
To: Andrew Gristina <agristina@yahoo.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 29-Jan-2007, at 15:56, Andrew Gristina wrote:
> I have two racks in London UK. The colocation is
> currently in London. The contract is up soon and most
> of the feet on the ground in the UK of the company is
> in the greater Birmingham area. So I'm interested in
> colocating about two racks of servers to Birmingham.
> I would need a cage if the space were shared.
If peering and choice of transit is your primary concern, then you
might well find the best approach lies in staying in London and
finding a reliable contractor who is local and who can do things for
you there when needed.
I've never heard of anybody acquiring peering in Birminghag.
You can peer in Manchester at the MaNAP, although I'm not sure how
well that theory stacks up in practice these days. In any case from
Brum it's not much further to London than it is to Manchester,
ignoring the traffic issues.
Joe
