Hi Everyone. I am Martin Spencer, the owner of The Data Centre at 220 Queen Street.
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I have been following the thread on the Auckland Peering Exchange and thought it would be useful to bring you up to date with some recent changes in my data centre.
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We now have two generators and have just completed construction of our own sub-station to service the whole building instead of Vector���s old one.
We have never had a complete power outage, though in the early days we did experience an outage on one UPS. I then had all the UPSs modified to try and ensure it wouldn���t happen again.
I would like to confirm that we do not charge monthly cross-connect fees. The only charge is for setting up the connection and that is based on what it costs to run the cable.
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Since I do not and never will supply bandwidth I am carrier neutral and have always hoped that I could encourage people to peer in my facility.
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If a formal peering exchange were to be set up here I would not want to be involved in the administration. I would do all I could to support and encourage it but would continue with my current philosophy of concentrating on making the physical infrastructure (aircon, power, security) as robust and reliable as possible.
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If one or a group of you would like to meet with me to discuss how we can improve our facilities and make them more transparent and available to you, please contact me.
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Martin Spencer
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