an over-the-top data center
Warren Kumari
warren at kumari.net
Sat Nov 29 00:23:09 UTC 2008
On Nov 28, 2008, at 4:33 PM, Joe Abley wrote:
>
> On 2008-11-28, at 16:04, Jean-François Mezei wrote:
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>> If you look at Toronto, the main carrier hotel is quite famous at 151
>> Front Street, very near to the main train station, convention
>> centre etc
>> (aka: right at the core of the downtown). People who do not know
>> about
>> the internet infrastructure may not realise what this building is
>> about,
>> but anyone who knows how ISPs operate would know the strategic
>> importance of that building.
>
> People who do not know that there's a Front Street East as well as a
> Front Street West also like to fight their way through the mantrap
> to front desk security and demand to see the dentist.
>
> So if anybody ever finds an operational advantage to having
> equipment in a building regularly visited by people with bad teeth,
> bear that in mind.
Hey, some of the best network engineers I have met are British....
W
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> Joe
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