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 <o...@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 > > -- > Mehmet > +1-424-298-1903 > > > >