17 Apr
2002
17 Apr
'02
9:37 p.m.
there's no answer to the question, as posed. "can you be more specific?"
I think the poster was inquiring as to common practice.
Yes, but there isn't going to be a common practice for "data centers" as a whole. There's going to be a common practice for telco/fiber hotels, and a common practice for hosting centers, and a common practice for exchange points, and a common practice for shell&core, and so on. Each kind of data center drives toward its own common practice, and asking about common practices for "data centers" is therefore a nonquestion.