an over-the-top data center
Patrick W. Gilmore
patrick at ianai.net
Mon Dec 1 01:33:37 UTC 2008
On Nov 28, 2008, at 4:04 PM, Jean-François Mezei wrote:
> The thing about a carrier hotel is that it cannot be a secret location
> since you need to allow various carriers and ISPs to have physical
> access to the building so they can install/manage their
> servers/routers/switches.
>
> The advantage of this swedish data centre is that even if its location
> is well known, it is pretty hard to harm the building. You can't run a
> truck full of explosives into it for instance.
Unfortunately, you also cannot run your own fiber there, colo
equipment there, visit it for any reason, etc.
I was going to say 'this probably hinders customers adoption at
NetNod', but I know for a fact the "probably" is superfluous.
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TTFN,
patrick
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