cooling door

Wed Apr 2 17:25:06 UTC 2008

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 6:06 AM,  <michael.dillon at bt.com> wrote:
>
>
>  > I doubt we'll ever see the day when running gigabit across
>  > town becomes cost effective when compared to running gigabit
>  > to the other end of your server room/cage/whatever.
>
>  You show me the ISP with the majority of their userbase located
>  at the other end of their server room, and I'll concede the argument.
>
>  Last time I looked the eyeballs were across town so I already have
>  to deliver my gigabit feed across town. My theory is that you can
>  achieve some scaling advantages by delivering it from multiple locations
>  instead of concentrating one end of that gigabit feed in a big blob
>  data center where the cooling systems will fail within an hour or two
>  of a major power systems failure.

That would be a choice for most of us.

-M<