[asterisk-biz] Colocated Asterisk Server

[Chris Bagnall]

> Well, that's not necessarily true.  Yes, of course you're going to add
> some latency, but it doesn't have to be too much.  It all depends on how
> the US data center is peered.  If it's peered with primarily Tier 1
> backbones that privately haul trans-Atlantic traffic and go back to
> LINX, Redbus, etc. in London, you're pretty well off.

I was thinking specifically of the scenario where one might have PSTN termination in the UK, customers in the UK, but phone servers in the US. You'd have the latency of the customer's (usually *DSL) connection to the US, then the (hopefully much lower) latency back to the PSTN provider in the UK. I doubt you'd be able to do it under 100ms end-to-end.

As you rightly point out, if you can sidestep handling media, the situation would be much improved.

> I believe we're paying around $5/amp here in the US. Which is not
> unreasonable I think.

To give you an idea how different it is over here, Telehouse Europe charge £32 + VAT per amp over the inclusive power allowance (for Telehouse East, Docklands, anyway). I think most of that goes not on providing the extra power - that's easy - but on the extra cooling the increased power consumption requires.

Regards,

Chris