RE: european colo/bandwidth facilites?

["Mark D. Kaye" <mark () eatonkaye com>]

Hi,

I can only comment from a UK perspective but...

Personally I would check the Colo facility contracts very carefully before agreeing.

LINX have just reviewed contracts within some of the major facilities in London TelecityRedbus (Now Merged in to one 
company) and Telehouse Europe

The Review made very interesting reading, the contract terms of these to companies are very different, particularily 
with attention to price rises and notice periods required.

We have fecilities within Telehouse (Docklands) and I can certainly commend them for good service, we had facilities 
with Redbus before the merger but as a result of the merge Redbus's prices went vertical.  We no longer have facilities 
with TCRB as a result.  It would also appear a few other companies have recently taken this view as well.  

One thing which I have found to be useful within Telehouse is free (within reason) use of there remote hands for simple 
problems i.e. reboots etc. 

Currently there also seems to be good words being said for InterXion, I believe LINX are evaluating InterXion as a LINX 
node within London.

Also within London a very useful company has come to light www.datahop.it they are providing very cheap interconnects 
between various different facilities and in particular I know they are able to get LINX and LONAP connections to 
facilities which don't currently house either of those XP's

Mark Kaye
Eaton Kaye Ltd.



> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu] Im 
> Auftrag von matthew zeier
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 16. August 2006 08:19
> An: nanog () merit edu
> Betreff: european colo/bandwidth facilites?
>
>
>
> My employer (Mozilla Corp) is looking to build out a site in 
> Europe (and maybe, eventually Japan).  Unfortunately I have 
> little/no experience outside of "NA" and don't know which 
> players (both for colo space and for bandwidth) would be best 
> to talk to.
>
> Looking for pointers, and sales folk are welcome to email as well.
>
> - mz