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Is 811 10th (NYCMNY54) even interesting from an Internet perspective any longer? Yes, the building is part of AT&T’s network (AS7018), but as far as I’m aware,
by souterrain 8y ago
Is 811 10th (NYCMNY54) even interesting from an Internet perspective any longer? Yes, the building is part of AT&T’s network (AS7018), but as far as I’m aware, no peering occurs here at all. I’d look for equivalent shady racks or rooms at 60 Hudson, 111 8th and 25 Broadway.
Maybe the comfortable relationship between NSA and at&t are more the driver for the location, and the fiber taps are all backhauled here.
From a voice perspective, though, I’d think this was still a useful surveillance point, given AT&T likely still tandems traffic here.
- walrus01 8y agoThings are slowly moving out of 111 8th as Google bought the whole building and is not renewing leases for certain tenants. Most traffic exchange happens at places like 60 Hudson for Manhattan and then a whole bunch of newer, modern, low and wide purpose built datacenters (mostly 1998 and later dotcom 1.0 boom and onwards era) in NJ across the river.
- Mc91 8y agoI used to be in this building all the time, lots of companies colo'd their setups in the building. I know Forbes did, as well as other companies. The building had security but was not incredibly secure. https://www.business.att.com/content/productbrochures/colocation-data-center-new-york-brief.pdf https://www.business.att.com/content/productbrochures/coloca... Our servers there went through AT&T networks. Some companies I worked for co-located at Telehouse centers where you had a host of upstream options (including multiple options). Stephen Colbert's studio was next door to the building when he was doing the Colbert Report 3-4 years ago, I used to see him walking around from time to time.