Links between cabinets at commercial datacentre
Andy Rabagliati
andyr at wizzy.com
Wed Apr 17 09:33:29 UTC 2002
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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