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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Links between cabinets at commercial datacentre
On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Bill Woodcock wrote: > Or are they simply not allowed to purchase "unlit" service at all? That > is, are tenants in the data center only allowed to purchase circuits from > the telco, as opposed to crossconnects? This is not the Telco - this is a commercial, large, datacenter. No connections between cabinets. Period. > > While acknowledging that a data center may make any rules it likes, I > > am asking nanog how common this practice is. > > This is very uncommon. Rules like these do exist, but facilities with > such rules very rarely attract enough customers to be worthy of interest > to people building exchanges. That is exactly why we are locating the exchange outside the datacenter. However, we are still a prisoner of this rule, as peers must separately 'purchase' connectivity to us - basically a fee for connectivity. South Africa has few large colo facilities. Because of the large expense of cross-town connects, an artifact of Telkom as a monopoly provider, we are obliged to locate in the same building as the datacenter. To reiterate, Telkom is not a factor in costing the peering point connectivity to the datacenter. Cheers, Andy!
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