Colocation available in Durham Region?

[James Knott]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 07:54:49PM -0500, Anthony de Boer wrote:
>   
>> In my experience in the business, "colo" means colocation of the
>> customer's equipment in the datacentre, with the provider providing
>> space, power, network access, and security.  That meant the customer
>> would want a facility not too far away, and drove up the costs because of
>> the security requirement (the customers would like it if the guy in the
>> next shelf or cage doesn't accidentally elbow them, or "borrow" parts or
>> anything like that) and because the computers were never the same shape
>> or size so there was a fair bit of wasted space.
>>     
>
> I was always amazed when I went to the wynford drive colo at Bell
> (during my previous job a few years ago) that there didn't ever seem to
> be anyone making sure you didn't go mess with someone elses computers.
> After all if I turned around 180 degrees when working on the servers
> there I was looking at boxes labeled "Sympatico/Lycos".  I imagine
> someone would have been very upset if I poked at those. :)
>   
That's unusual. At all the Bell sites I've been to, they had a separate
locked cage for each customer. We did the same thing, back when I worked
for Unitel.
> I even went and swapped out a broken server once by making an
> appointment over the phone, showing up at the front desk with a 6U
> server, going down with it, swapping out the other one, and leaving with
> the broken 6U server.  It never did seem very secure to me.
>
>   

Years ago, I used to work for CN Telecommunications/CNCP
Telecommunications/Unitel Communications at 151 Front St. W. I often
thought that if you wanted to steal something, all you had to do was to
carry it out on a hand truck. Then stand around the lobby, as though
you're waiting for a ride and then walk out with that something. ;-)


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