Re: Landing Stations used as datacenter

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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 
> > >
> > > -- 
> > > Mehmet
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