Re: Landing Stations used as datacenter

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

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 () 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 
> >
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