Landing Stations used as datacenter

Fri Nov 15 04:42:13 UTC 2019

I can’t find a single cls that is a good peering spot

Latam has level3 cls in chile which is good location and has lots of
networks ixp. That is like only one I am aware, doing business is quite
horrible there.

Everything is over priced, slow burocraric.

On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 19:18 Sean Donelan <sean at donelan.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 14 Nov 2019, Mehmet Akcin wrote:
> > I am not a big fan of CLS deployments. They have limited networks ( like
> > only carriers and no eyeballs) and very expensive connectivity (usually)
>
> Sometimes there isn't a choice, i.e. islands or other constrained
> geographies.  But I am not a fan of combining cable landing stations and
> datacenters/internet exchange points either.
>
> I always want my IXPs and data centers to be connected to multiple cable
> systems, again maybe constrained by geographic concerns.  I've also found
> the construction requirements of landing stations and data centers to be
> different.  You almost always end up compromising one or the other when
> you combine them.
>
> Nevertheless, there are some countries and islands with only one landing
> station, and not enough domestic eyeballs to support major infrastructure
> deployment. It might be better than nothing in those cases, but I would
> always prefer something else.  None of those places would be in my top 20
> list for deploying anything.  Maybe if I needed to reach 120+ countries.
>
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Mehmet
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