Landing Stations used as datacenter

[sean at donelan.com (Sean Donelan)]

On Thu, 14 Nov 2019, Mehmet Akcin wrote:
> I am not a big fan of CLS deployments. They have limited networks ( like
> only carriers and no eyeballs) and very expensive connectivity (usually)Â 

Sometimes there isn't a choice, i.e. islands or other constrained 
geographies.  But I am not a fan of combining cable landing stations and 
datacenters/internet exchange points either.

I always want my IXPs and data centers to be connected to multiple cable 
systems, again maybe constrained by geographic concerns.  I've also found 
the construction requirements of landing stations and data centers to be 
different.  You almost always end up compromising one or the other when 
you combine them.

Nevertheless, there are some countries and islands with only one landing 
station, and not enough domestic eyeballs to support major infrastructure 
deployment. It might be better than nothing in those cases, but I would 
always prefer something else.  None of those places would be in my top 20 
list for deploying anything.  Maybe if I needed to reach 120+ countries.