Donald Neal
Senior Network Engineer
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-----Original Message-----
From: nznog-bounces(a)list.waikato.ac.nz [mailto:nznog-bounces(a)list.waikato.ac.nz] On Behalf Of Matthew Moyle-Croft
Sent: Wednesday, 1 August 2012 7:05 p.m.
To: Nathan Ward
Cc: nznog; Joel Wirāmu Pauling
Subject: Re: [nznog] Pacific Fibre to Cease Operations - cites not enough investment.
On 01/08/2012, at 4:21 PM, Nathan Ward
Sydney has Equinix and Global Switch which are both completely carrier neutral and very good/high quality sites. But NZ, aside from Skytower, which isn't ideal for content (ie. lots of servers), doesn't have a clear central location in Auckland to build capacity > and caching servers etc into and easily connect to enough people to make it viable.
Is this lack of focal point more of an issue?
No. The decision to build in someone else's data centre or to build your own data centre in leased or bought floor space is mainly a choice between capital and operating cost. Even given more choices of neutral sites, operators might well continue to build their own. It's also perfectly viable to lease space in a date centre with no intrinsic association with the Internet and pay separately for fibre to where you want to communicate with. - Donald Neal All opinions mine only.