On 2/08/2012, at 11:27 AM, Matthew Moyle-Croft
I'm quite serious that a single location where I could put equipment that I could build private, public peering and obtain decently priced connectivity to the outside world with services I expect done properly (eg. remote hands available 24x7 etc) would enable people to build in NZ.
I agree. A point I made at the InTAC conference was that us having so much relatively cheap urban fibre has stopped natural, neutral data centres that everybody uses from appearing. If you can run a data centre in your own offices and have the staff and capital to spend then why would you seek out a central location. LFC is the one thing that might change this because the sheer potential volume of local data means the cost of connecting your own office data centre may go up significantly. One obvious way to minimise that is to put your kit into POIs. OK so there's going to be too many of those to do that to and that approach doesn't deal with MMCs view that we need one POI to rule them all, but it does change behaviour more in favour of neutral spaces and that may be enough to get the market kickstarted. Jay PS Joel - Chorus state their exchange space co-location service will offer TIA-942 and go from bare floor upwards. Is that good enough?
It's not saying that you won't have to connect to SYD for somethings, but it'd help a lot.
MMC
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