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WRONG WRONG WRONG.
With this news, do you honestly think the few remaining intelligent engineers are gonne stick around to perform these "seamless switches"?
Of course not, they're going to find new jobs and RUN.
Don't be sure of that.
When Exodus went bankrupt and was acquired by Cable and Wireless the majority of their team stayed. Most of the people I'm dealing with at C&W now were formerly Exodus employees. I wouldn't be surprised if many of the employees decided to stay. If they stayed around when their company was bankrupt I wouldn't be surprised if they stuck around for another transition. (well - at least that's what my sales rep is telling me!)
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Google does use co-lo's. I know for sure that they use Cable & Wireless. I'm not sure who else they use. They do have multiple hosting locations.
Unless you are a huge company, building your own data center is not feasible. It is a tremendous cost and huge expense. Plus unless you manage to steal lots of good employees from existing hosting companies, odds are you'll do it wrong.
For bandwidth - they will be paying somebody for it. But being in a co-lo doesn't restrict you, you can still get whichever network providers you want to run their pipes in to you.
If you have a network active on your Tivo, Tivoweb runs a web server on it. The web server then has pages for:
Remote control - fully duplicates the functions of the remote control
User interface - basically a replicate of the 'Tivo' menu. You can view what's recorded, manipulate season passes, delete shows,... Only thing you can't do is start a show playing from it
Browse the MFS database on the Tivo
Plus a bunch of other random things to give you info about what your Tivo is doing (view logs, see its temperature, see what's on the screen,...)
Basically, it lets you control your Tivo without needing the remote control. Useful for me since I've got the Tivo outputting to two TVs in separate rooms - I can use my laptop as a remote this way. Also handy for scheduling a recording from work if you forget to set it up before...
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When Exodus went bankrupt and was acquired by Cable and Wireless the majority of their team stayed. Most of the people I'm dealing with at C&W now were formerly Exodus employees. I wouldn't be surprised if many of the employees decided to stay. If they stayed around when their company was bankrupt I wouldn't be surprised if they stuck around for another transition. (well - at least that's what my sales rep is telling me!)
Unless you are a huge company, building your own data center is not feasible. It is a tremendous cost and huge expense. Plus unless you manage to steal lots of good employees from existing hosting companies, odds are you'll do it wrong.
For bandwidth - they will be paying somebody for it. But being in a co-lo doesn't restrict you, you can still get whichever network providers you want to run their pipes in to you.
Basically, it lets you control your Tivo without needing the remote control. Useful for me since I've got the Tivo outputting to two TVs in separate rooms - I can use my laptop as a remote this way. Also handy for scheduling a recording from work if you forget to set it up before...