On 17 Jun 2016, at 1:15, Daniel Golding wrote:
You said that LONAP's distributed strategy "kept datacenters honest"
to use
your exact quote. That implied some sort of benefit for members in
acting
as some sort of counterweight to (rapacious?) data center providers.
I rely primarily on information from our membership base who reaffirm
their desire for a multi-site approach. They (and you) are the people
with the data, as they are the people buying these services.
The origin of these designs was probably not out of a desire for
diversity to promote competition, but actually because existing
datacentres were full.
Nevertheless, a datacentre which is full, incompetently run, or too
expensive all have something in common - to my members they are useless.
I made the point that distributed IX's don't really
impact power or space costs in data centers. I can provide actual data
on
this, if you would like.
What about crossconnect prices?
It is interesting you have data that indicates that this policy could be
futile, because the belief in this principle is almost axiomatic in
our/my community.
Did we waste time and money spanning metros with IXs?
