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Re: Links between cabinets at commercial datacentre
From: Adam Herscher <adam () xtime com>
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 16:27:10 -0700 (PDT)
On 17 Apr 2002, Paul Vixie wrote:
someone like exodus or qwest or at&t or uunet or abovenet would be very likely to prevent their customers from directly cross-connecting. mae-west (55 s market) won't allow it either. paix, equinix, switch and data, and other "neutral colos" won't allow it to occur without a fee but the fees are reasonable (unlike, say, the cross connect fees at mae-west.)
UUNet's never put up any roadblocks for me in crossconnecting between cabinets in their datacenters (2 cabinets belonging to different UUNet customers). They've done it quickly too -- here's the response from a UUNet engineer from the last time I asked:
If this is NOT an Out-of-Band cross connect (POTS, ISDN, whatever) contacting your sales person will not be necessary. Are you simply attempting to join cabinets [X] and [Y] via a Cat5 connection??? If this is the case let me know what ports in the patch panels you want the cross connect terminated to and I can send the request to have this done today.
Their quote for bringing in outside bandwidth (having a circuit punched down at the datacenter + crossconnected to a cabinet) was relatively little too -- something to the tune of $50/month iirc. At my request, they even allowed me to have a circuit run directly through their datacenter bypassing their equipment altogether. I flipped the bill for the UUNet-contracted outside vendor to do the cabling.
Current thread:
- Re: Links between cabinets at commercial datacentre, (continued)
- Re: Links between cabinets at commercial datacentre Rubens Kuhl Jr. (Apr 17)
- Re: Links between cabinets at commercial datacentre David Lesher (Apr 17)
- Re: Links between cabinets at commercial datacentre Paul Timmins (Apr 17)
- Re: Links between cabinets at commercial datacentre Rubens Kuhl Jr. (Apr 17)
- Re: Links between cabinets at commercial datacentre Kevin Loch (Apr 17)
- Re: Links between cabinets at commercial datacentre Joe Abley (Apr 17)
- Re: Links between cabinets at commercial datacentre Brian (Apr 17)
- Re: Links between cabinets at commercial datacentre Rubens Kuhl Jr. (Apr 17)
- Re: Links between cabinets at commercial datacentre Andy Rabagliati (Apr 18)
- Re: Links between cabinets at commercial datacentre Paul Vixie (Apr 18)
- Re: Links between cabinets at commercial datacentre Paul Vixie (Apr 17)
- Re: Links between cabinets at commercial datacentre fingers (Apr 17)