Re: Landing Stations used as datacenter

[Javier J <javier () advancedmachines us>]

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 () 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 () 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 () 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 () 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
> >
> > 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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