[TriLUG] OT: Google datacenter in NC

[Ben Pitzer]

Keep in mind that they have a small, probably underutilized network up
there, too.  RR is in a situation where its subscriber base has grown very
quickly, requiring a great deal of infrastructure changes to keep up.
Frankly, small outfits can easily outstrip larger ones, if only for the
reason that they probably also don't have the concentration of heavy users
that the Triangle does (work from home types, VPN requirements, bittorrent
downloaders, web and mail servers on home networks, multi-system home
networks, etc).  Thus, they have that kind of bandwidth to spread around.
It's easy to keep their routers distributed evenly, especially if they can
afford to purchase hardware faster than the subscriber base is growing.
Down here in the Triangle, it ain't that easy.  Trust me, I've seen it from
the inside.

-Ben Pitzer


On 1/22/07, OlsonE at aosa.army.mil <OlsonE at aosa.army.mil> wrote:
>
> Man are we getting screwed. RoadRunner charges as much for their
> 8mb/.5mb as these guys do for their 10m/2m. From personal experience,
> I've never come close to 8mb/.5mb (I average about 50% of this).
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
> Behalf Of Jay Cuthrell
> Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2007 7:17 PM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] OT: Google datacenter in NC
>
>
> On Jan 20, 2007, at 1:35 PM, Neil L. Little wrote:
> [snip]
> > Though Lenoir is "un-geeky" it is nice country up there.
>
> Actually, you can get CoMPAS Cable modem service down the road in
> Morgantown.
>
> So, before the un-geeky pops up again, their SEVEN tier service goes up
> to a 10M/2M package [1].
>
>         http://www.compascable.net/html/compasinternet.html
>
> By comparison, RoadRunner here in uber-geeky RTP tops out at 8M/0.5M
> service. *yawn*
>
> -Jay
>
> [1] Disclosure: I work closely with a provider of their infrastructure
>
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