Comments on: A Look Inside the Vegas SuperNAP http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/08/11/a-look-inside-the-vegas-supernap/ News and analysis about data centers, cloud computing, managed hosting and disaster recovery Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:24:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: nottlv http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/08/11/a-look-inside-the-vegas-supernap/comment-page-1/#comment-411 nottlv Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:48:43 +0000 http://dev.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/08/11/a-look-inside-the-vegas-supernap/#comment-411 "...Switch says it now has more than 20 backbones running through its bandwidth hub. Connectivity wise, there's not another building in America that comes anywhere near what we can do," said Roy..." They also make the same claim on their site: <a href="http://www.switchnap.com/pages/products/switchnet.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.switchnap.com/pages/products/switchnet.php</a> "No facilities in the United States have more in building on-net national backbone connections from seperate tier-1 providers as the Nevada NAPs in Las Vegas." I have a hard time believing this. The list of "20 backbones" includes several nobodies and is missing 2 of the 7 tier 1 carriers (GlobalCrossing and NTT/Verio). And to my knowledge, there are several large Tier 2 carriers that don't have any presence in Las Vegas at all (Internap, Peer1, Mzima, etc.). If you look at someplace like Equinix Ashburn or Equinix Chicago, where they have dozens and dozens of carriers onnet, I have a hard time believing these claims. “…Switch says it now has more than 20 backbones running through its bandwidth hub. Connectivity wise, there’s not another building in America that comes anywhere near what we can do,” said Roy…”

They also make the same claim on their site:

http://www.switchnap.com/pages/products/switchnet.php

“No facilities in the United States have more in building on-net national backbone connections from seperate tier-1 providers as the Nevada NAPs in Las Vegas.”

I have a hard time believing this. The list of “20 backbones” includes several nobodies and is missing 2 of the 7 tier 1 carriers (GlobalCrossing and NTT/Verio). And to my knowledge, there are several large Tier 2 carriers that don’t have any presence in Las Vegas at all (Internap, Peer1, Mzima, etc.). If you look at someplace like Equinix Ashburn or Equinix Chicago, where they have dozens and dozens of carriers onnet, I have a hard time believing these claims.

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