an over-the-top data center

Mon Dec 1 19:35:36 UTC 2008

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	Patrick,

On 1 dec 2008, at 02.33, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:

> 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.

for the non-Stockholm locations that is not true. As a matter of fact,  
you will have to get your own fibers to Netnod there. As for co-lo of  
equipment, not as easy as in a neutral co-location. As for visits, why  
would you need to?

As for fibers, Stockholm has a fiber monopoloy run by the city of  
Stockholm. So you would have to buy fibers from that monopoloy in any  
case.

> I was going to say 'this probably hinders customers adoption at  
> NetNod', but I know for a fact the "probably" is superfluous.

That is your judgement. We have seen the largest growth for a long  
time in the last year.

Best regards,

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