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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: PacBell NAP and Co-location
Does the arrangement you mention still require that Pacific Bell retain ownership of the equipment that is placed at the Pacific Bell site ? Is a draft online somewhere ? Thanks --pushpendra Pushpendra Mohta [email protected] +1 619 455 3908 Director, CERFnet http://www.cerf.net +1 619 455 3995 (FAX) Warren K. Williams writes: > > Folks, > > I need to clarify something regarding colocation at Pacific Bell. There has > been a great deal of confusion out in the community regarding Pacific Bell's > position on Colocation. Let me set the record straight here. For those NAP > customers who need to colocate equipment as part of their NAP connection > through us ** can ** do so. We have made an arrangement that fits within > company guidelines that will allow us to place a customer's router, > CSU/DSU... within our facilities for connection to the NAP. The facilities > we provide have the standard data center enviromments (i.e. air > conditioning, raised floor, standard racks, and monitored power). They also > allow access to customer technicians (or their agents) for configuration and > repair needs. > > The question, however, is a bit moot given the way in which customers attach > to an ATM NAP. ATM circuits are pulled to wherever the customer is (using > the appropriate InterExchange Carrier to do interlata connections, of > course). There is no need to co-locate equipment. No need for the additional > capital invesment nor the introduction of an additional routing hop. If a > customer has no locations in the bay area, it is simply a matter of setting > up a "long-distance" connection. A couple of our customers are doing just > that today. > > FYI. > Kind regards, > Warren > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Warren K. Williams, Director - Network Access Point > Pacific Bell Business Communications Services > Email: [email protected] Phone: 510.867.9065 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >
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