Landing Stations used as datacenter

Sat Nov 16 16:32:55 UTC 2019

Owen of course. I was just expressing my humble opinion to the thread.
Cheers.

On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 8:41 PM Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com> wrote:

> I was neither defending, nor advocating the placement, merely attempting
> to document some of the history.
>
> Owen
>
>
> On Nov 15, 2019, at 15:20 , 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 <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 <nanog at nanog.org>
>> wrote:
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>> 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
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>> 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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