National Public Radio technology correspondent Xeni Jardin
featured Internet carrier hotels [1] in a segment that aired yesterday. The piece spotlighted
One Wilshire [2], the huge Los Angeles Internet hub owned and operated by
CRG West [3], the technology real estate arm of the Carlyle Group. The report introduced carrier hotels and the basics of Internet infrastructure to a general audience, but also highlighted the fact that “business is booming” at One Wilshire, according to CRG West’s David Dunn, who said One Wilshire has experienced demand from the emerging market for Internet video games.
Jardin, also one of the anchor bloggers at
Boing Boing [4], used the recent earthquake in Taiwan to illustrate the resiliency of Internet infrastructure, noting that the networks housed at One Wilshire were able to route around the outages within several days of the earthquake. The segment also mentions the possibility the carrier hotels could be targeted by terrorists, an angle that has often turned up in media coverage of this industry. Internet security guru Bruce Schneier contributed a sound clip that placed the terrorist issue in perspective. You can
listen here [1] or check out the
photos at Flickr [5].
Rich Miller is the founder and editor-in-chief of Data Center Knowledge, and has been reporting on the data center sector since 2000. He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities.
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[1] featured Internet carrier hotels: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7452738
[2] One Wilshire: http://www.onewilshire.com
[3] CRG West: http://www.crgwest.com
[4] Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2007/02/20/npr_xeni_tech_a_los_.html
[5] photos at Flickr: http://flickr.com/photos/xeni/sets/72157594547492446/
[6] Rich Miller: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/author/richm/
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