Sky Tower/Sky City colo update
Hi all, I have had verbal confirmation from John Russell of IHUG and Andy Miller of Xtra that IHUG and Xtra are keen to participate in an exchange at the Sky Tower. Between us, CLEAR, IHUG and Xtra should bring a significant amount of Auckland traffic to the exchange, and make it well worth joining. CLEAR hopes to have packet access to the 48th floor in the tower within the next four weeks, ready to peer with anybody else who cares to join us. The reason for choosing the 48th floor is that it turns out another project within CLEAR had already funded a cabinet there, so it's a handy place for us :) For those who took the tour the other day, the 48th floor is one of the glass-walled floors, ideal for radio shots back to home base without the planning approval that's required for external antennas. If the 48th floor turns out to be wildly inconvenient for anybody else we can always trunk our connection elsewhere. To talk about pricing either dedicated cabinets or space in community cabinets on the 48th floor, Warren Harding's your man: 025 338-392, 09-306-1599x706, warren(a)jda.co.nz. 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. I am also on the lookout for someone to donate a switch to the exchange (if anybody has any pointers, please let me know). In the mean time, and at least to get things started, CLEAR will have 10baseT switch ports available on the 48th floor. Longer term I suspect someone will want to sell them rather than give them away, but I'm certainly happy to look elsewhere while people string cat5 into the cabinet to get things running :) Most importantly of all, we can't possibly start peering at the Sky Tower unless we have a cool name for the exchange. Sky-IX? MAE-Auckland? Sky-NAP? Mmm. "The Tallest Internet Exchange in the World" :) Joe --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog
On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Joe Abley wrote:
Most importantly of all, we can't possibly start peering at the Sky Tower unless we have a cool name for the exchange. Sky-IX? MAE-Auckland? Sky-NAP?
I guess "AIX" would get confusing. Is "Skynet" taken by anyone yet? That is, of course, the complex defense network in the "Terminator" movies, that became sentient and started a nuclear holocaust.
Mmm. "The Tallest Internet Exchange in the World" :)
Kickass. JSR --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog
On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Joe Abley wrote: <vertigo>
CLEAR hopes to have packet access to the 48th floor in the tower within the next four weeks, ready to peer with anybody else who cares to join us. The reason for choosing the 48th floor is that it turns out another project within CLEAR had already funded a cabinet there, so it's a handy place for us :)
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Most importantly of all, we can't possibly start peering at the Sky Tower unless we have a cool name for the exchange. Sky-IX? MAE-Auckland? Sky-NAP?
Surely it has to be the STIX, STYX, whatever..... Cheers, Sid -- Sid Jones Loquacious, dissemblers, immoral liars, stunted, sjones(a)netlink.co.nz bigoted, dark, ugly, pugnacious little trolls. 0800 655 465 -British Food Critic AA Gill on the Welsh --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog
On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Sid Jones wrote:
Surely it has to be the STIX, STYX, whatever.....
How could I have missed asterix (A)uckland (S)ky (T)ow(ER) (IX) Cheers, Sid -- Sid Jones Loquacious, dissemblers, immoral liars, stunted, sjones(a)netlink.co.nz bigoted, dark, ugly, pugnacious little trolls. 0800 655 465 -British Food Critic AA Gill on the Welsh --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog
On Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 05:33:38PM +1200, Sid Jones wrote:
On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Sid Jones wrote:
Surely it has to be the STIX, STYX, whatever.....
How could I have missed asterix
(A)uckland (S)ky (T)ow(ER) (IX)
(P)ost-modern (I)nternet (E)xchange - in the Sky ublic packetised ??? I just liked the acronym =) Dean -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Dean Pemberton Ph: +61-3-9656-7000 Regional Technical Specialist Asia-Pacific Fx: +61-3-9656-7006 Ascend Communications, Inc Mb: +61-419-117-321 Lvl 38, ANZ Tower, 55 Collins St Melbourne,Australia mailto:deanp(a)ascend.com.au -----------------------------------------------------------------------
Um, Dean as a side issue, have you not yet discovered the "send in plain
text" option on your mail client ?
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On Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 04:06:04PM +1200, Joe Abley wrote:
I am also on the lookout for someone to donate a switch to the exchange (if anybody has any pointers, please let me know).
I'd prefer we use a cheap unmanaged switch. Otherwise someone will wind up having access to the stats from the switch which may be commercially sensitive. It's either that or we all have access.
Most importantly of all, we can't possibly start peering at the Sky Tower unless we have a cool name for the exchange. Sky-IX? MAE-Auckland? Sky-NAP?
Auckland Cloudbase Neutral Exchange? Actually, APE get's my vote. -Craig --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog
On Thu, Apr 08, 1999 at 09:03:28AM +1200, craig(a)laptop.iprolink.co.nz wrote:
On Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 04:06:04PM +1200, Joe Abley wrote:
I am also on the lookout for someone to donate a switch to the exchange (if anybody has any pointers, please let me know).
I'd prefer we use a cheap unmanaged switch. Otherwise someone will wind up having access to the stats from the switch which may be commercially sensitive. It's either that or we all have access.
I thought of that too. Just out of interest, would anybody object if the switch _was_ managed, but had a well-known SNMP read community (say "public") so that anybody at all could graph port stats if they felt like it? As long as we don't use something with an RMON probe, I don't really care. So who wants to fire up gimp and get the tower/kong logo organised? :) Joe --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog
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
participants (6)
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Craig Anderson
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Dean Pemberton
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Joe Abley
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John S Russell
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Sid Jones
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Tony Wicks