Then again, with tens of gigabits to Chicago (where Google has a major datacenter) it probably isn't really necessary.
Then again, with tens of gigabits to Chicago (where Google has a major datacenter) it probably isn't really necessary.
This stuff is designed to be able to go almost anywhere that's willing to host it under the standard contract. File a request, let the relevant team figure out if it's worth putting a rack in. Nothing bad can happen as a result of asking the question.
(Ah, "major datacenter" in Chicago. It's bad of me to be amused by this. We don't have anything we'd call a "datacenter" in Chicago, that's a small installation ;). The list is here: http://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/locations/)
The traffic requirements were around 2Gbps of peak Google traffic last time I checked with them, so you might actually qualify already, certainly not as restrictive as the Netflix caching servers where they want 10Gbps of peak traffic.
Think your main problem is that Chicago is so close...