Re: Show me the logistics
There could be any number of places Bob. Commercial operators hosting a large number of servers & networking gear, let's see we have
- Revera have a 6,000 server installation in Auckland. And it's called 'Homeland' which is quite funny.
- IBM has a large data centre in South Auckland, set up in 2011. Anchor tenant is who? IBM wouldn't just speculate...
- Datacom have a huge site in Auckland which they'd lease to basically anyone.
- Unisys, Gen-i, Vorbis, Vodafone/Telstra have colo data centres also.
All of the above are highly secure, segregated, tier 3 / 3+ data centres. And you don't need all the servers to be in Auckland - just the 'front end' processing work & offload the rest to Hawaii etc.
- AT&T has a POP
- American telcos have a dedicated and sizeable slice of Southern Cross.
So it is all possible. Yet, while I'm sure that the NSA has a presence in NZ, I am unconvinced that it's doing much slurping here - why would it need to? Error correction would be all that was needed if it's tapped in @ Hawaii.
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