It's not so much that APE is there.

Honestly APE has less value compared to the other cross connects I have at SKY in terms of a reason for co-locating there.

It's more that every other carrier / ISP / random guy with an AS has a presence there, so is a handy spot to interconnect.

If there was a decent DC in the CBD, where everyone else was, and that wasn't excruciatingly expensive, then I'm sure we'd all be there instead.

Also Citylink seem to have a default pricing policy that's, "well try and make it really expensive to connect to APE everywhere else but sky", which seems to have sane pricing for historical reasons.

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> On 16/06/2014, at 11:13 am, Dean Pemberton <nznog@deanpemberton.com> wrote:
>
> Hands up for Level 48 (or ST as a whole) being the stupidest place for
> co-lo in the world?
>
> APE's available at a whole lot of places around Auckland now, as an
> industry should we be looking at a move away from the SkyTower? ��Not
> all at once, but I'd be interested to know:
>
> Who still thinks it's a critical place and would deploy new equipment
> there today?
> Anyone have it as their only point of possible APE interconnect in Auckland?
> Is anyone not aware that there are loads of other places to get on
> APE/do peering/hand off in Auckland?
>
> I'd like to be having a conversation in the not to distant future
> which went along the lines of:
> "Heh, remember those crazy days when we used to have a peering
> exchange in the sky tower?"
> "Heh - yeah what were we thinking"
>
>
> Regards,
> Dean
>
>
>> On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 6:36 PM, Liam Farr <liamfarr@me.com> wrote:
>> Yep, saw the same event on 48. We have an ATS in front of our ups, so must have lost A & B.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>> Liam Farr
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>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>> On 15/06/2014, at 11:05 am, Tony Wicks <tony@wicks.co.nz> wrote:
>>>
>>> tonyw@skysw-2> show system uptime
>>> 11:04AM ��up 24 mins,
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: nznog-bounces@list.waikato.ac.nz
>>> [mailto:nznog-bounces@list.waikato.ac.nz] On Behalf Of Michael Fincham
>>> Sent: Sunday, 15 June 2014 11:00 a.m.
>>> To: nznog
>>> Subject: Re: [nznog] Power event in sky tower
>>>
>>>> On Sun, 15 Jun 2014 10:51:11 +1200, Alexander Neilson wrote:
>>>> Did anyone else notice a power event in sky tower in the last 15 Minutes?
>>>
>>> We saw a Vocus peer go away and come back at 10:40, but our UPS (on 48)
>>> hasn't spotted anything.
>>>
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