Check out the nice graph of MAE-East for that last 5 days. When are they
going to get a generator installed? Why can't you pay for a generator when
you are charging +30 people $5,700 a month?
OK, market research time. If someone else were selling datacenter/colocation
space in a high quality facility less than a mile from MAE-East, lit with MFS
and several other bypass carriers, with its own GIGAswitches, would anybody
reading this feel the urge to relocate their hub and just leave one 100Mb/s
dark fibre over to MFS, meanwhile building preferred peerings with folks who
took the same route? Assume that the costs were similar to what MFS charges,
bearing in mind that more space would be available and you might want to pay
for more of it since it would have 24x7 remote hands, AC/DC with UPS/generator,
and all the rest of that kind of good goopy stuff.
(Sigh, yes, it's true. I helped with DEC's Palo Alto thing, and now I've got
the fever, and possibly the funding, but I don't know if it's worthwhile.)
OK, market research time. If someone else were selling datacenter/colocation
space in a high quality facility less than a mile from MAE-East, lit with MFS
and several other bypass carriers, with its own GIGAswitches, would anybody
reading this feel the urge to relocate their hub and just leave one 100Mb/s
dark fibre over to MFS, meanwhile building preferred peerings with folks who
took the same route? Assume that the costs were similar to what MFS charges,
bearing in mind that more space would be available and you might want to pay
for more of it since it would have 24x7 remote hands, AC/DC with UPS/generator,
and all the rest of that kind of good goopy stuff.
Well I am building one, just not near MAE-East. I think that if I build one
1 mile away and had 24x7 remote hands, AC/DC, redundant fiber paths MFS
and others, UPS/generator with redundant by-pass, and much more people
would not move. I know that some would, but to make it work you would need
to get Sprint, MCI, UUNet, and ANS to move and I think that would be hard
to do. Even if you were using my model and gave Sprint, MCI, UUNet, and
ANS free rack space and free gigaswitch port.
(Sigh, yes, it's true. I helped with DEC's Palo Alto thing, and now I've got
the fever, and possibly the funding, but I don't know if it's worthwhile.)
Don't think it is. 
Nathan Stratton CEO, NetRail, Inc. Tracking the future today!
People should build robust enough infrastructure so that they don't rely on
MAE-East so much. The current MAE-East is a disaster waiting to happen. Just
hope that there isn't a flood in that area any time soon.
Oh, speaking of environmental conditions, I hope folks who are on DC power
check their wire. Last time I was there, most of them were hooked up using
10 amp wire and were running pretty hot.
-dorian
Hehe, ya I was in there not to long ago and that wire was very hot. I
agree that you should build a network infrastructure so that when MAE-East
is dead you are ok, I just don't think that is the point. MAE-East needs
to have some money dumped in to fix some of the power and other problems
before it is a big disaster.
Nathan Stratton CEO, NetRail, Inc. Tracking the future today!
I guess I'm more fatalistic then you are.
-dorian