Landing Stations used as datacenter

Clayton Zekelman clayton at MNSi.Net
Fri Nov 15 23:42:31 UTC 2019


Crosslake does not use the Enwave cooling pipes to enter 151 Front.

Torix is at 151 Front, but 151 Front is not Torix.

At 06:35 PM 15/11/2019, Andrew Paolucci via NANOG wrote:
>Fresh water might not be in your scope for the 
>article, but I believe crosslakefibre.ca 
>operates a link across Lake Ontario, Buffalo to 
>Toronto at TORIX 151 Front Street, but you'd 
>need to verify with them if indeed the landing 
>comes directly into the facility, this may be 
>the case though as lake water is used for 
>cooling within the facility providing conduits already in place.
>
>Can't wait to read the article!
>
>Regards,
>Andrew Paolucci
>
>
>
>‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
>On Friday, November 15, 2019 6:20 PM, Javier J 
><javier at advancedmachines.us> wrote:
>
>>I would think that just a few extra fractions 
>>of a second from the cable station to a DC/IX 
>>are better than a DC/IX near the beach where 
>>water can wipe it all out. Preferably DC/IX 
>>should be on the 2nd or third floor IMHO on some islands.
>>
>>- J
>>
>>On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 4:11 PM Owen DeLong 
>><<mailto:owen at delong.com>owen at delong.com> wrote:
>>Some Caribbean islands had IXs in landing 
>>stations early on IIRC. Usually before the 
>>island built it’s first datacenter.
>>
>>Some of them were better/faster about moving to 
>>the datacenter once it was established than others.
>>
>>Owen
>>
>>
>>>On Nov 15, 2019, at 01:47 , Martijn Schmidt 
>>>via NANOG <<mailto:nanog at nanog.org>nanog at nanog.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>I think AMS-IX had an exchange in Mombasa in 
>>>the SEACOM landing station at some point, but 
>>>that is gone now. I'm not sure about the exact 
>>>reasons there but someone here probably knows what happened.
>>>
>>>There's also a big amount of carriers in the 
>>>TATA landing station in Mumbai, it is the 
>>>second-largest in that market just behind GPX 
>>>in terms of carrier density at least according to PeeringDB.
>>>
>>>Best regards,
>>>Martijn
>>>
>>>
>>>On 11/15/19 3:58 AM, Mehmet Akcin wrote:
>>>>Hey there
>>>>
>>>>I have been putting my thoughts on Infrapedia 
>>>>blog and sharing with folks like
>>>>
>>>><https://www.infrapedia.com/post/top20cities-datacenters>https://www.infrapedia.com/post/top20cities-datacenters
>>>>
>>>>I am working on a new article and this time 
>>>>my topic will be looking at cable landing 
>>>>stations(cls). Do you consider cable landing 
>>>>stations as a datacenter? Do you have any 
>>>>experience deploying a pop in CLS? Are you 
>>>>able to share (on or off record) your 
>>>>experience which I can refer as your 
>>>>experience (good or bad) why deploying a pop 
>>>>inside a CLS is good or bad idea. Any additional comments..
>>>>
>>>>I am not a big fan of CLS deployments. They 
>>>>have limited networks ( like only carriers 
>>>>and no eyeballs) and very expensive connectivity (usually)
>>>>
>>>>Thank you in advance sharing your experience
>>>>
>>>>Mehmet
>>>>
>>>>--
>>>>
>>>>Mehmet
>>>>+1-424-298-1903

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