Re: a brief pondering

Toerless Eckert <tte@cs.fau.de> Tue, 24 March 2020 06:07 UTC

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From: Toerless Eckert <tte@cs.fau.de>
To: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
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Subject: Re: a brief pondering
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On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 12:40:33PM +0000, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> > https://www.equinix.com/lp/equinix-coronavirus-statement-to-customers-and-partners/
> 
> > All IBX facilities are operational at this time. IBX locations in
> > France, Germany, Italy and Spain are under restricted access,
> > effective Monday, March 23 at 8:00am CET until further notice,
> > meaning visitors, customers, customer contractors and non-critical
> > Equinix vendors will not be permitted to enter the IBX facilities.
> 
> ("IBX" is marketing nonsense for "data centre")

The equinix web page goes on to say:

> Our on-site IBX staff will continue to serve all customers through the
> execution of tickets of Smart Hands, Trouble, Cross Connects, and
> Inbound/Outbound Shipments. However, we ask that customers try to limit
> their requests to critical work only.
>
> For business-critical requests that would normally entail a customer
> site visit, we will evaluate fee waivers for our Smart Hands service on
> a case-by-case basis