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RE: an over-the-top data center

  • From: Mikael Abrahamsson
  • Date: Tue Dec 02 01:49:12 2008

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).

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: [email protected]