RE: Datacenter services in US or Canada

Good post, Brian! Very interesting...
On Feb 11, 2012 3:57 PM, "Brian McGahan" <bmcgahan_at_ine.com> wrote:

> 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!
>
> Check us
>
> www.affirmedsystems.com
>
> -----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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