Nondescript Building Where Trillions Trade Each Day
Apr 13, 2016 13:16:49 GMT -6
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Post by Rickster on Apr 13, 2016 13:16:49 GMT -6
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This one is for Teye22,
Equinix's NY4 data center hosts 49 exchanges among the more than 6,300 customers that have set up servers in the Secaucus, New Jersey, facility.
I found this interesting and thought Teye would as well, because at one time in my life I put together a prospectus on a complete data center top to bottom for the San Diego area. The first thing I learned was the total secrecy behind the actual internet nodes available and their locations throughout the US. In the "web" of cabling and micro waves traveling throughout the US they culminate in major cities, these nodes as they are called all join in one building, in some large states like California they have several nodes. This was long before anyone even knew what data centers were, or hosting farms. It was an incredibly interesting project.
This isn't in the original article but I found it on the net of which we speak. As you can see where the nodes are to have a server farm/data center you need to be as close as possible or in some cases if you can in the same building as the nodes. FOr obvious reasons CHicago and New York are load with nodes and quick access to them because of the financial transactions for stocks in New York and Commodities in Chicago. You buy IBM stock in New York and Pork Bellies in Chicago. So as you can see by the map where the best places are to be for the fastest internet speed, and this is just the AT&T backbone there are still several other at this point in time and growing.
If your interested in the way these kinds of things work read the full article and find out how they cool things, and what happens when the power goes out. Fascinating stuff for sure. My story and what happen you ask? I gave them what they want, everything needed for the cost to build one, the only way they would do it was if I ran the joint, the offer a fabulous salary and as rich people always say a piece of the action later. So I thought for a week and decided I couldn't work behind a desk everyday and manage a bunch of eggheads in a burgeoning business little knew anything about. I would have had to move to San Diego manage the construction of this project then ran it for at the minimum for two years under contract. so I went back to the group and said no. They looked at me as if I was stupid. I was to have missed that opportunity, but I have been my own man as they say since I left home at 17 it has always been my way or not at all. We learn quickly we don't always make great choices. For me this was an interesting read... Enjoy Teye if you don't already know this stuff, great photos as well.
This one is for Teye22,
Equinix's NY4 data center hosts 49 exchanges among the more than 6,300 customers that have set up servers in the Secaucus, New Jersey, facility.
"Six miles northwest of the New York Stock Exchange as the microwave flies, across the Hudson River and within earshot of Interstate 95, is a building with no name. Only three numbers mark its address, and, like much of its surroundings, it’s nondescript, encircled by windblown trash and lonely semitrailers waiting to be hauled away somewhere. It’s a part of New Jersey that’s, well, ugly.
It’s also a critical node in the U.S. financial system: The 49 different exchanges that lease space at this data center sent a record 9.6 million messages per second through its fiber-optic cables in February. Every day, electronic trades representing trillions of dollars’ worth of equities, derivatives, currencies, and fixed-income assets pass under this roof. This is NY4. This is where Wall Street actually transacts.
t’s just one of the crown jewels of Equinix, the $22.7 billion company that’s quietly grown into the world’s largest owner of interconnected data centers. To give you an idea of Equinix’s lead in the space, you would have to add up the market value of its five closest U.S. competitors to roughly equal its market cap, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Equinix pitches its centers as more than just storage space for servers. Its clients pay in part because of who else is there. That includes the Chicago Board Options Exchange, Direct Edge, ICAP, Nasdaq, the NYSE, and Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News. IEX Group, the firm that starred in Michael Lewis’s 2014 book Flash Boys, stashes a key piece of its hardware in one of Equinix’s New Jersey data centers: a coil of fiber-optic cable that slows orders down by a fraction of a second. And those firms are just from the handful of financial industry customers Equinix discloses. It connects more than 6,300 businesses to their customers, and most of those firms don’t want it known that they lease one of NY4’s metal cages, which are identified only by numbers, not names."
It’s also a critical node in the U.S. financial system: The 49 different exchanges that lease space at this data center sent a record 9.6 million messages per second through its fiber-optic cables in February. Every day, electronic trades representing trillions of dollars’ worth of equities, derivatives, currencies, and fixed-income assets pass under this roof. This is NY4. This is where Wall Street actually transacts.
t’s just one of the crown jewels of Equinix, the $22.7 billion company that’s quietly grown into the world’s largest owner of interconnected data centers. To give you an idea of Equinix’s lead in the space, you would have to add up the market value of its five closest U.S. competitors to roughly equal its market cap, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Equinix pitches its centers as more than just storage space for servers. Its clients pay in part because of who else is there. That includes the Chicago Board Options Exchange, Direct Edge, ICAP, Nasdaq, the NYSE, and Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News. IEX Group, the firm that starred in Michael Lewis’s 2014 book Flash Boys, stashes a key piece of its hardware in one of Equinix’s New Jersey data centers: a coil of fiber-optic cable that slows orders down by a fraction of a second. And those firms are just from the handful of financial industry customers Equinix discloses. It connects more than 6,300 businesses to their customers, and most of those firms don’t want it known that they lease one of NY4’s metal cages, which are identified only by numbers, not names."
This isn't in the original article but I found it on the net of which we speak. As you can see where the nodes are to have a server farm/data center you need to be as close as possible or in some cases if you can in the same building as the nodes. FOr obvious reasons CHicago and New York are load with nodes and quick access to them because of the financial transactions for stocks in New York and Commodities in Chicago. You buy IBM stock in New York and Pork Bellies in Chicago. So as you can see by the map where the best places are to be for the fastest internet speed, and this is just the AT&T backbone there are still several other at this point in time and growing.
If your interested in the way these kinds of things work read the full article and find out how they cool things, and what happens when the power goes out. Fascinating stuff for sure. My story and what happen you ask? I gave them what they want, everything needed for the cost to build one, the only way they would do it was if I ran the joint, the offer a fabulous salary and as rich people always say a piece of the action later. So I thought for a week and decided I couldn't work behind a desk everyday and manage a bunch of eggheads in a burgeoning business little knew anything about. I would have had to move to San Diego manage the construction of this project then ran it for at the minimum for two years under contract. so I went back to the group and said no. They looked at me as if I was stupid. I was to have missed that opportunity, but I have been my own man as they say since I left home at 17 it has always been my way or not at all. We learn quickly we don't always make great choices. For me this was an interesting read... Enjoy Teye if you don't already know this stuff, great photos as well.