Landing Stations used as datacenter

Fri Nov 15 12:10:09 UTC 2019

PPC-1 built by PIPE Networks, an Australian IX, fiber and carrier neutral colo provider, uses a CLS in Cromer NSW (“Sydney”) that is also a PIPE data center.

Unfortunately PIPE got acquired by TPG and their IX platform is limping along on life support these days.

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On Nov 14, 2019, at 11:45 PM, Mehmet Akcin <mehmet at akcin.net> wrote:

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<mailto: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.
--
Mehmet
+1-424-298-1903
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