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RE: an over-the-top data center
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike () swm pp se>
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 07:49:04 +0100 (CET)
On Mon, 1 Dec 2008, Deepak Jain wrote:
3) No one cares if the server farm is blast proof (it isn't), if the connectivity in/out of it gets blasted (submessage: silos were meant to deliver one thing, datacenters aren't in the same operational model once they need connectivity to the outside world)
It's much easier to restore fiber connectivity in a time of crisis than it is to source hardware manufacturered at the other end of the world and have this set up properly. I do think there is value in keeping the hw safer than the connectivity to the outside.
I bet the military or emergency services can establish a 10km fiber stretch in a few hours. Replacing some telecom hw and set it up from scratch would probably take weeks (I'm not talking about a single router here).
-- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike () swm pp se
Current thread:
- Re: an over-the-top data center, (continued)
- Re: an over-the-top data center Lyndon Nerenberg (Dec 01)
- Re: an over-the-top data center Ian Mason (Dec 02)
- Re: an over-the-top data center Lamar Owen (Dec 01)
- Re: an over-the-top data center Steven M. Bellovin (Dec 01)
- Re: an over-the-top data center Martin List-Petersen (Dec 01)
- Re: an over-the-top data center Jim Popovitch (Dec 01)
- Re: an over-the-top data center Lamar Owen (Dec 01)
- Re: an over-the-top data center Kurt Erik Lindqvist (Dec 01)
- Re: an over-the-top data center Jean-François Mezei (Dec 01)
- RE: an over-the-top data center Deepak Jain (Dec 01)
- RE: an over-the-top data center Mikael Abrahamsson (Dec 01)
- Re: an over-the-top data center Paul Cosgrove (Dec 02)
- RE: an over-the-top data center Deepak Jain (Dec 02)
- Re: an over-the-top data center Charles Wyble (Dec 02)
- RE: an over-the-top data center Deepak Jain (Dec 02)
- RE: an over-the-top data center Mikael Abrahamsson (Dec 01)
- RE: an over-the-top data center Jeremy Jackson (Dec 02)
- Re: an over-the-top data center The Anarcat (Dec 02)
- Re: an over-the-top data center Jay Hennigan (Dec 02)
- Re: an over-the-top data center Brian Raaen (Dec 02)
- Re: an over-the-top data center Marshall Eubanks (Dec 02)