Last week, we saw some traffic about the Lightfiber problems because EqM1
is apparently in a building that's been condemned by the city or county
of Miami.
That struck me curious, so I wanted to look into it further.
Amazingly, there doesn't seem to be any coverage of the incident, even in
technical circles. Does anyone know anything they're permitted to tell
about how a building which contained a datacenter managed to get itself
condemned?
Cheers,
-- jra
I've been in a few Data Centers and CO's that should have been condemned.
If I were to toss out purely random semieducated guess - a lot of south florida datacenter buildings were pretty damaged by Ivan (and his friends, floyd, charlie, francis, and katrina) some years back. I'd venture to guess that they've managed to keep things running (or put it back together enough to keep things running) for a while and have been fighting the condemnation order for a number of years...and finally lost. Fun part about those is you usually have nearly zero time to gtfo, especially if you've fought it...
of course, my memory of that time is pretty fuzzy (but I did watch as the company that borged my employeer at the time had to scramble massively to recover from having their gear destroyed, flooded, and otherwise put out of service by the storms, basically moving everything that was down south up to orlando). It definitely affected our ability to get paychecks - and for the next few months the were having to literally truck the only remaining check printer back and forth from S.Fl to Orlando every week to print checks....
. o O ( and I don't know where equinix's building was in south florida, either. but I know they never showed up on our radar when we were hunting for space with dark fiber back to the NAP to feed our southern customers their dose of WCQ...)
...david
. o O ( and I don't know where equinix's building was in south florida,
either. but I know they never showed up on our radar when we were
hunting
for space with dark fiber back to the NAP to feed our southern customers
their dose of WCQ...)...david
This was the Metro Mall facility, operated by Switch and Data until
Equinix's acquisition of S&D a few years ago. It is now known as
Equinix-Miami 1. 1 NE 1st Street.
The issue here has nothing to do with any hurricanes in the past. My
opinion is that they lacked proper documentation and planning. Having a
bit of insider knowledge here and knowing where this fiber came from
originally (ACSI) and how FiberLight came to acquire it, I'm fairly sure
I'm on the money.
Randy