Sebastopol construction
September 3, 2008 – 11:52 pmThe first thing that comes to mind when I try to describe the Sebastopol central office is “cute”. It reminds me of Sonic.net’s old datacenter; crowded, small, but with purpose. It’s a plucky little CO.
Yesterday we began the installation process in Sebastopol for our next generation products: FlexLink for medium sized businesses and enterprise and Fusion for small business and home. The first cabinet went in (low ceiling!), and the drilling has begun. Two holes down this afternoon, two to go.
We should be bolted down tomorrow, then equipment rack-in, power turn-up, and copper termination. The last part will probably take the longest, as we are pre-building a lot of copper capacity, and it is all done by hand.
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3 Responses to “Sebastopol construction”
ahhh. I remember my first experience with real highspeed internet… some friends lived within 2 blocks of the sebastopol CO and had 6 mbit dsl back when that was unheard of. They had 5 or 6 people online in that house almost 24/7. One guy (who technically didn’t live there) moved his computer in semi-permanently for the highspeed internet. If you tried to send an email with a large attachment or upload a pic to a website, people would start screaming because their ping would skyrocket. I guess that is not going to a problem with ‘fusion’ and 1 mbit uploadstream.
By Nick on Sep 5, 2008
Before I play games over XBOX 360, I have to kill all other traffic and reset modem+router or else the experience is terrible (lag or dropped connections).
I have an electric plug timer to reset the modem+router daily just for regular traffic otherwise it will start crawling. I’ve tried 4 different router brands. All have the same behavior so it must be my Westell modem.
Should I buy an ADSL2+ modem now and have it connect to ADSL for the meantime until I get Fusion?
By Jeremy on Sep 8, 2008
Those were the days eh Nick! Remember when we ran CAT5 across the telephone wire
Everyone thought we were LAN’d to the CS servers.
By Tim on Sep 12, 2008