Life at Level 3 Long Island

All images Copyright 2001 Ron Nelson
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Life at Level 3 in Garden City. Out in the middle of Long Island, where the thought was "At least this is better than New Jersey..." <grin>


The fact is, working in a colocation facility is working in a cage. Terra leased a big space, but we were still in the cage.

To the left, you can see Scott Hartman, Jim Gertsch and Scott Baker. On the right you can see ScottB, ScottH and myself getting the urge to get out...


On the left is Galen Slabaugh, who was the other UNIX engineer that Netigy found to place on the contract. To the right is Scott Hartman, a Network engineer.

Here you can see me and the guys grinding away in the cage. The other picture has Jim and Dave loading more equipment into the racks. By the time we left, these racks were full, and the build-out of additional racks had begun.

Finally, there's a meeting in the cage. (What's consulting without meetings? I'd sure like to find out...) Closest to the camera is the Terra contact for the project, Guillermo Perez. To his immediate left was a new executive from Terra. I don't know if I ever saw him again...



The rest of the pictures here are of the various servers used to build terra.com. I could go into detail about how the E3500s were used for email servers, net racks of Netra 1125s were for SMTP, LDAP and DNS, the racks with Netra T1s were the web front end servers for the sites and the EMC Clarion servers were used for mail storage and NAS for the web content...

But who really cares, anyway? <grin>


Ron Nelson <rnelson@ronspace.org>
Last modified: Thu Sep 27 17:44:28 2001