I stand corrected, last I saw any information on the bunker was well over a year ago.
My opinion is that business continuity/disaster recovery customers can save money by using two separate commercial grade facilities in widely spaced cities (for example, London UK and Frankfurt DE), rather than going for a "all the eggs in one basket" approach. Whereas major commercial exchange points will have a large selection of carriers, government and military bunkers are usually far from any major city centre. Attack-trained guard dogs? Two ton doors? It's all very impressive when showing off to potential clients (or in novels such as Cryptonomicon), but also very useless in the real world. :-) At 12:31 PM 7/10/2003 +0100, you wrote: >I'm not subscribed to the list, so I'm not sure if this will make it. >But, anyway: it has come to my attention that Eric Kuhnke ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made the following post to the nanog list: > >> I recall reading, last year, about a "Cyber Bunker" outside London UK >> which is being offered as colo to major banks. The banks were raving >> praise about it. This facility is an ex-RAF centralized radar >> control site, buried dozens of feet underground w/ thick concrete and >> designed to withstand nuclear weapon overpressure. Blast doors, EMF >> shielding, dual-redundant air filtered generators, the works. >> >> The people who bought it and turned it into a colo neglected to >> mention one thing: It's in the middle of a farm field with a single >> homed fiber route to Telehouse Docklands. >> >> Anyone have a backhoe? *snip* >> >> DIVERSE ROUTES, people! > >Being the owners of what we believe to be the only ex-RAF centralized >radar control site that offers colo in the UK >(http://www.thebunker.net/), we're a little puzzled. > >Our bunker _does_ have diverse fibre which we believe is also armoured >to a higher standard than usual[1], and certainly buried deeper (since >it enters the frame room a _long_ way underground). We also have >multiple providers routed across the diverse fibre, not all terminating >in Telehouse. In short, about as far as you can get from a "a single >homed fiber route to Telehouse Docklands". > >If indeed you are talking about our bunker, we'd be very interested to >know where your information comes from, so we can correct it. If you >aren't, we'd love to hear which bunker you are talking about. > >Cheers, > >Ben (Technical Director, ALD) > >[1] Funnily enough, the military weren't exactly forthcoming about >details like this. > >-- >http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html http://www.thebunker.net/ > >"There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he >doesn't mind who gets the credit." - Robert Woodruff