The boxes made it to New York.
A friend had sent six photos from the road under the subject “NYC bound.” The previous day, while we were almost to Indiana, I replied from my phone with a tiny progress report and three exclamation points.
The U-Haul, the apartment, and the job were all moving at the same time.
Before we reached New York, Peek was already asking me to think about a data center. The company was considering equipment and routers that could connect a mobile carrier back to services running in Amazon Web Services. It also needed an estimate for a possible first build.
I was not officially working yet.
After the drive ended, I answered. Our belongings had arrived safely and we were moving into the apartment the next day. Then I switched directly into the network question.
The cost would depend on security and bandwidth. I asked for the carrier material and said I would put together some thoughts.
I still needed those requirements before I could estimate anything.
The email had two paragraphs. The first said the boxes made it. The second asked for network requirements.
Peek's application was already running in Amazon, but the mobile product also connected with outside providers and carrier networks. The question was whether some routing and security equipment needed a physical place outside the cloud.
I had spent years doing network and data-center work at Beatport. I could not price this plan without the traffic, bandwidth, and security details.
The data-center work started before we unpacked.