Re: Any Verizon datacenter techs about?

[William Herrin <bill () herrin us>]

On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 4:11 PM, Robert Seastrom
<rs () rs hmail seastrom com> wrote:
> On Jun 26, 2015, at 11:34 AM, William Herrin <bill () herrin us> wrote:
> > I'm told second hand that when MCI/worldcom (now Verizon Business)
> > controlled 8100 Boone Blvd (the early MAE-East) you had to buy a data
> > circuit from them to get between floors. Not a cable or a
> > cross-connect. A data circuit at the 0-mile tariffed price.
>
> 4) The sole grain of truth to this story is that for inter-cabinet connections inside the colo, MFS and later 
> Worldcom demanded that one pay for a zero mile local loop and that the circuit pass through actual transport kit so 
> that it could be "managed" - and also billed at insanely-high-for-what-it-was "data rate" prices.
>
> 5) They managed to extend outside-the-building circuits from the node room to the colo room on a very-long-patch-cord 
> basis, but it was like pulling teeth to get them to agree to *not* put a pair of muxes back to back to drive 400 feet 
> of fiber down to B2 where the facility I managed was.  Finally, after many escalations sanity prevailed and the fiber 
> that got installed from 5 to B2 was 288-strand SMF-28 to a patch panel...  and no muxes.

Hah! Well, like I said, I had it second hand. Stories do grow in the telling.

Regards,
Bill Herrin

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