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From: Martin Hannigan (no email)
Date: Wed Apr 02 2008 - 13:25:06 EDT
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 6:06 AM, <> wrote:
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> > I doubt we'll ever see the day when running gigabit across
> > town becomes cost effective when compared to running gigabit
> > to the other end of your server room/cage/whatever.
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> You show me the ISP with the majority of their userbase located
> at the other end of their server room, and I'll concede the argument.
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> Last time I looked the eyeballs were across town so I already have
> to deliver my gigabit feed across town. My theory is that you can
> achieve some scaling advantages by delivering it from multiple locations
> instead of concentrating one end of that gigabit feed in a big blob
> data center where the cooling systems will fail within an hour or two
> of a major power systems failure.
That would be a choice for most of us.
-M<
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