The Verne Global Datacenter which some of you toured with me at the last EPF in Iceland is up, operating and growing. Verne is getting the benefits of cheap geothermal energy, airside cooling (economization) and have found a niche application to tide them over until the b/w situation changes. Slowly. HPC. High energy requirements, low bandwidth requirements. That offsets the expense of the current network regime there.
Once the emerald express system is built, I expect to see b/w prices become more realistic and open up additional opportunities for Iceland. You should really talk to Verne about current costs and opportunities in Iceland. I have maintained all my Iceland connections. If anyone needs a point, feel free to ping me offline. WRT to the geologic aspect, Verne and the cables were well situated to avoid volcano and quake damage zones. Remember, Icelanders have been doing this for quite a long time. Even the data center, situated on the former NATO airbase, is on bedrock from the early formation of Iceland which means that ground acceleration, the damage factor in quakes, does not affect them as much. Northern CA USA has far more quake danger than Keflavik, FWIW. Best, -M< On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 12:29 PM, Rod Beck <rod.b...@hibernianetworks.com> wrote: > Hi Martin, > > > Have any figures to share with us? I haven't heard of anyone doing > signficant business up there. The cable systems are expensive and often > don't provide end-to-end service on their fibre. If a carrier cannot deliver > the traffic from an Icelandic data centre to New York or London on its > fiber, it's not competitive and it is a dead end. > > > Regards, > > > Roderick. > > > Roderick Beck > Sales Director/Europe and the Americas > Hibernia Networks > > This e-mail and any attachments thereto is intended only for use by the > addressee(s) named herein and may be proprietary and/or legally privileged. > If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby > notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this email, and > any attachments thereto, without the prior written permission of the sender > is strictly prohibited. If you receive this e-mail in error, please > immediately telephone or e-mail the sender and permanently delete the > original copy and any copy of this e-mail, and any printout thereof. All > documents, contracts or agreements referred or attached to this e-mail are > SUBJECT TO CONTRACT. The contents of an attachment to this e-mail may > contain software viruses that could damage your own computer system. While > Hibernia Networks has taken every reasonable precaution to minimize this > risk, we cannot accept liability for any damage that you sustain as a result > of software viruses. You should carry out your own virus checks before > opening any attachment.
