RE: Datacenter services in US or Canada

I used to host some stuff at CH1 Equinix via Qwest, and Joe is right. 350 E Cermak (CH1) is one of the largest (if not *the* largest) and most highly connected datacenters in the world: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/special-report-the-worlds-largest-data-centers/worlds-largest-data-center-350-e-cermak/

Most of the fibers across the US follow the railway lines. If you compare a map of the physical Internet in the US to the train map they're basically an overlay of each other. Also most of the train network terminates in Chicago, because we're about equal distance from the east coast to west coast. This means that most data going from east coast to west coast (e.g. NYC to LA) stops in Chicago along the way at 350 E Cermak.

For example if I trace to any large Internet applications, e.g. Google, Youtube, Amazon S3, etc. 99% of the time they are physically at 350 E Cermak:

Tracing route to www.l.google.com [74.125.225.81]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1 1 ms <1 ms 1 ms 10.1.10.1
  2 35 ms 21 ms 11 ms *
  3 12 ms 9 ms 10 ms te-2-8-ur02.chicago201.il.chicago.comcast.net [68.86.118.69]
  4 9 ms 11 ms 11 ms te-1-8-0-5-ar01.area4.il.chicago.comcast.net [68.87.210.65]
  5 11 ms 26 ms 11 ms pos-3-9-0-0-cr01.350ecermak.il.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.90.45]
  6 10 ms 13 ms 11 ms pos-0-13-0-0-pe01.350ecermak.il.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.87.250]
  7 55 ms 9 ms 17 ms as15169-4.350ecermak.il.ibone.comcast.net [66.208.233.142]
  8 10 ms 10 ms 12 ms 209.85.254.130
  9 11 ms 11 ms 10 ms 209.85.250.30
 10 10 ms 8 ms 9 ms www.l.google.com [74.125.225.81]

Trace complete.

C:\>ping 74.125.225.81

Pinging 74.125.225.81 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 74.125.225.81: bytes=32 time=16ms TTL=55
Reply from 74.125.225.81: bytes=32 time=14ms TTL=55
Reply from 74.125.225.81: bytes=32 time=12ms TTL=55
Reply from 74.125.225.81: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=55

Ping statistics for 74.125.225.81:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 10ms, Maximum = 16ms, Average = 13ms
C:\>

Those hops along the way are Comcast's 10GigE and OC-192 PoS links in 350 E Cermak. 13ms avg to a web server is pretty good I would say :)

Brian McGahan, CCIE #8593 (R&S/SP/Security)
bmcgahan_at_INE.com
 
Internetwork Expert, Inc.
http://www.INE.com

-----Original Message-----
From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of Joseph L. Brunner
Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2012 12:53 PM
To: Marcelo Pinheiro; ccielab_at_groupstudy.com
Subject: RE: Datacenter services in US or Canada

Use me!

I'm at Equinix NY4 and CH1 (the best 2 commercial datacenters in the WORLD!!!!)

(most major financial institutions "match the engine" here for algo trading, dark pool order routing, etc)...

I have plenty of rack space and multi-gigabits of Level3, Hurricane Electric and Internap bandwidth!

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-----Original Message-----
From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of Marcelo Pinheiro
Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2012 6:42 PM
To: ccielab_at_groupstudy.com
Subject: OT: Datacenter services in US or Canada

Hi guys,

Do you recommend any datacenter services in US or Canada?
It is basically for hosting web services, databases for a news company in Brazil.
Please unicast me.

TIA,

Marcelo Pinheiro

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Received on Sat Feb 11 2012 - 14:56:20 ART