Colocrossing's Million Dollar Routers are Switches... Top of Rack Server Porn. Old Cisco.

[Francisco]

They didn't buy million dollar switches. Jon has stated that they've invested about ~$1M this year in their network.

Still, that's a seriously massive stack of switches in that Jon offered me a pretty decent TOR brocade that had 10gbit port options for < $5k.

Francisco

 

[drmike]

$1M in their network?  What the heck does that even mean?   

You can buy quite a bit of more recent network gear for a relative steal these days.

I think $1M network = all the bills.   All the new servers on lease, RTO, whatever, plus colo, plus transit, plus who knows what else.  

 

[drmike]

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?hl=en&biw=&bih=&q=cache:TbWreZEQNNIJ:http://vsnx.net/colocrossing.php%2Bcolocrossing+switch

Owned by Velocity Servers Inc., the company behind Velocity Gaming Servers - a world leader 
in game server hosting, ColoCrossing knows business. More importantly, we understand the demands of 
quality minded customers. ColoCrossing operates its own Layer3 networks nation wide: our 
AS Number is: 36352. Our list of providers include Savvis, Level(3), Verizon Business (MCI), 
Global Crossing, nLayer, AT&T and various private peers. 

We do not purchase any Cogent, Verio, or resold transit. 

We utilize Cisco Catalyst 4948-E and 6506-SUP2-MSFC2 switches in each datacenter for 
optimal switching performance.

 

[Deleted]

I wrote the above years ago when we first turned up BGP and it's all correct. 

 

[Deleted]

Actually, I take that back, I wrote the network specs and what we used at the time. Everything else is marking fluff.. 

 

[Lee]

I actually hope that someone at coresite see's this and acts accordingly.  

Sorry but this is just wrong to be posting up someone else's private rack, who it belongs to is irrelevant but the fact someone is walking into a DC and snapping pictures of other people's equipment is one thing but to be up that close so as to be able to interfere with the equipment is something else.

 

[CodyRo]

$1M in their network?  What the heck does that even mean?   

You can buy quite a bit of more recent network gear for a relative steal these days.

I think $1M network = all the bills.   All the new servers on lease, RTO, whatever, plus colo, plus transit, plus who knows what else.  

ColoCrossing has a global network. Routers and switches are expensive - especially when you have a larger network (IE: Buffalo, Chicago, etc). While the number itself is trivial one can easily drop $20,000 - $50,000 or more on a single device. Add in transit and everything else it's not that terribly inconceivable.

Their presence in CoreSite (as Jon mentioned) is remotely done and likely not one of their larger locations where they justified spending large sums of cash to run it when it wasn't necessary. That's business.

If I were them I'd be exceptionally peeved that someone was able to peak into my rack - whether it was EGI or the facility itself. I'd be raising a stink and requesting footage or something of that nature.

 

[Jack]

ColoCrossing has a global network. Routers and switches are expensive - especially when you have a larger network (IE: Buffalo, Chicago, etc). While the number itself is trivial one can easily drop $20,000 - $50,000 or more on a single device. Add in transit and everything else it's not that terribly inconceivable.

Their presence in CoreSite (as Jon mentioned) is remotely done and likely not one of their larger locations where they justified spending large sums of cash to run it when it wasn't necessary. That's business.

If I were them I'd be exceptionally peeved that someone was able to peak into my rack - whether it was EGI or the facility itself. I'd be raising a stink and requesting footage or something of that nature.

"If I were them I'd be exceptionally peeved that someone was able to peak into my rack - whether it was EGI or the facility itself. I'd be raising a stink and requesting footage or something of that nature."

I do agree with that.

 

[Jono20201]

Sigh.. one of our XXXXCC-XEON ID's is in that photo.

 

[WelltodoInformalCattle]

First thing that popped into my mind was how whoever took this pic managed to get that close without anyone noticing. This reflects poorly on Coresite instead of CC.

 

[XLvps]

It doesn't have to be pretty to work. My only concern would be how/why someone could get access to the rack.

 

[Thunder_Down_Under408]

The real questions that need to be addressed:

1. How would anyone know what cabinet CC was in without extensive knowledge?

2. How would this individual know exactly what equipment to take pictures of without extensive knowledge?

 

[AnthonySmith]

The real questions that need to be addressed:

1. How would anyone know what cabinet CC was in without extensive knowledge?

2. How would this individual know exactly what equipment to take pictures of without extensive knowledge?

3. Who gives a fuck?

I fixed that for you.

 

[Lee]

I fixed that for you.

So you would not care that someone could get free access to your servers and potentially cause disruption to service as a result, nice to know.

 

[manacit]

Someone inappropriately takes a picture of a rack that belongs to CC but wasn't set up or maintained by them, it's not pretty, we know EGI sucks. 

Looks like we've hit a new low

 

[jarland]

I actually hope that someone at coresite see's this and acts accordingly.


Sorry but this is just wrong to be posting up someone else's private rack, who it belongs to is irrelevant but the fact someone is walking into a DC and snapping pictures of other people's equipment is one thing but to be up that close so as to be able to interfere with the equipment is something else.

Would have to agree. Interesting as I may find it, I'd be throwing a fit right now to the datacenter in their position.

 

[Lee]

Would have to agree. Interesting as I may find it, I'd be throwing a fit right now to the datacenter in their position.

Well exactly, I would think anyone who see's something like this would be concerned.  Of course the image could just have been found on the net somewhere and the person taking the pic was doing so for a good reason with it now being used for the drama lamas, who knows.

 

[MannDude]

Yeah, unsure of the source of the image and was initially questioning the legitimacy of the claim but it does appear to have been verified as theirs. The rack is a total mess but it's hard to judge without seeing other racks too. Do they all look like that? Have the DC techs lost all their hair from working in such an environment? I'd be pulling mine out on the daily.

 

[Thunder_Down_Under408]

I fixed that for you.

Thanks boss

 

[Steven]

Curious, what model is the TOR cisco?