On Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 04:06:04PM +1200, Joe Abley wrote:
On a related note, I will be talking to Steve Donnohy of Sky City about the ground-level (well, basement) colo facilities in the building, in case it makes sense to do something down there. If anybody else has a desparate itch to attend the discussions, drop me a note (I'm meeting Steve at 9am, Friday 9 April). I will summarise whatever I find out to the list in any case.
The meeting was postponed, and finally took place this morning. Here's a brief synopsis: + Sky City do not want direct relationships with colo "tenants" -- they want a single relationship with JDA, who can manage tenants on their behalf. + There is not an obvious location at ground level (or, in fact, at sub-ground level) for an Exchange. + 24/7 access to the existing basement facilities is possibly more problematic than access to the comms decks on the tower, since they appear to come within the scope of casino security. + the question was asked "does this mean that the Sky City IT department can get cheap internet access"... I replied "if they can find an ISP connected to the exchange who will give it to them, then yes". I guess the reason for talking to them was to answer the question "if exchange participants don't need access to the tower for wireless comms, why should they bother locating hardware up the tower?" Now, the question (in my mind at least) seems to be "if there is no particular advantage to locating equipment in the basement, why wouldn't you stick it up the tower?" In other late-breaking news, I have had some good feedback from an organisation who may well be able to supply an exchange ethernet switch, and also manage the switch on an ongoing basis. This organisation is well-known to most on this list, but I'm not going to name them in order to build suspense :) I'm sure they will be able to put their own proposal forward once they have decided that it's something they want to get into. Joe "the glass is half-full" Abley --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog