[BBLISA] CoLo near waltham/lexington

[sgw at wadlow.net]

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> On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 sgw at wadlow.net wrote:
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>> > I used the facility that I guess is now Internap in Charlestown when
>> it
>> > was Hosting.com.  I think its weakness then was a single Internet
>> > connection (lack of diversity).  They might have fixed it now.  It's a
>> > good location if you need a location you can get to by T or car.
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>> They had a number of other problems, most notably a very instable
>> powerplant, in spite of being on multiple grids.    There have been
>> other problems for which I'm not willing to trust that facility.
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> Is this the Harvard.Net location? I toured this facility while it was
> being build in 1999. They made a lot of promises but the place was empty
> at the time.

Yes.   It was often empty, for a number of reasons, as far as I could tell.
I think the space has changed hands about 3-4 times since 1999.

>> > I think there are some colos in downtown Boston in the former Jordan
>> > Marsh building but I think parking is an issue.
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> Yes, that was me you saw on the red line with a 2U server.. ;)

oh, if I saw you, I'd have said "hi."  :)

> Really! I've done that (but not to the above mentioned facility) - I got
> some mighty strange looks.

Same here, actually.   I've also carried a 48 port Extreme switch into
town during rush hour.

    -steve