On Sat, 7 Sep 1996, Paul A Vixie wrote:
OK, market research time. If someone else were selling datacenter/colocation space in a high quality facility less than a mile from MAE-East, lit with MFS and several other bypass carriers, with its own GIGAswitches, would anybody reading this feel the urge to relocate their hub and just leave one 100Mb/s dark fibre over to MFS, meanwhile building preferred peerings with folks who took the same route? Assume that the costs were similar to what MFS charges, bearing in mind that more space would be available and you might want to pay for more of it since it would have 24x7 remote hands, AC/DC with UPS/generator, and all the rest of that kind of good goopy stuff.
Well I am building one, just not near MAE-East. I think that if I build one 1 mile away and had 24x7 remote hands, AC/DC, redundant fiber paths MFS and others, UPS/generator with redundant by-pass, and much more people would not move. I know that some would, but to make it work you would need to get Sprint, MCI, UUNet, and ANS to move and I think that would be hard to do. Even if you were using my model and gave Sprint, MCI, UUNet, and ANS free rack space and free gigaswitch port.
(Sigh, yes, it's true. I helped with DEC's Palo Alto thing, and now I've got the fever, and possibly the funding, but I don't know if it's worthwhile.)
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