RE: DATACENTER: Mixed Use Facility

[Robert Szarka <szarka@downcity.net>]

At 05:50 AM 6/6/99 , Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:
[...]
>I know the original post was a joke. However, I was at IBM, Santa Teresa
>Labs when some whacko drove his car through the facade of the Cottle
>Road facility (San Jose) and proceeeded to assault personel at the
>facility (he started shooting), in 1991.

Holy cow!  What was the outcome?  I was actually going to ask earlier
whether armed guards were being employed at most facilities...  I guess I
will just stop worrying about sounding paranoid--seems to be a feature not
a bug in this context.  ;)

[...]
>Leasing/Buying an old CO isn't terribly expensive, if you can find one
>available. When PacBell was deploying the Broadband system I got to tour
>some many of the Bay Area COs. A 5ESS is a *bunch* smaller than those
>old cross-bar systems. What used to occupy three floors, now takes a
>corner of one floor. The rest is largely unused. The RBOCS are missing a
>bet in not leasing out the floor-space. Oh yeah, those old COs are
>mini-forts. Some of them are NBC certified.

Hmn..  so one does wonder why co-location seems to be so difficult for
CLECs, eh?  ;)  Maybe a dumb question, but what is 'NBC certified'?


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