On Wed, 25 Jan 2012, Jay Ashworth wrote:

Last week, we saw some traffic about the Lightfiber problems because EqM1 is apparently in a building that's been condemned by the city or county of Miami.

If I were to toss out purely random semieducated guess - a lot of south florida datacenter buildings were pretty damaged by Ivan (and his friends, floyd, charlie, francis, and katrina) some years back. I'd venture to guess that they've managed to keep things running (or put it back together enough to keep things running) for a while and have been fighting the condemnation order for a number of years...and finally lost. Fun part about those is you usually have nearly zero time to gtfo, especially if you've fought it... of course, my memory of that time is pretty fuzzy (but I did watch as the company that borged my employeer at the time had to scramble massively to recover from having their gear destroyed, flooded, and otherwise put out of service by the storms, basically moving everything that was down south up to orlando). It definitely affected our ability to get paychecks - and for the next few months the were having to literally truck the only remaining check printer back and forth from S.Fl to Orlando every week to print checks.... . o O ( and I don't know where equinix's building was in south florida, either. but I know they never showed up on our radar when we were hunting for space with dark fiber back to the NAP to feed our southern customers their dose of WCQ...) ...david -- david raistrick http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html drais@icantclick.org http://www.expita.com/nomime.html