Finding information about metro private line service in downtown SF

Thu Oct 28 15:37:02 UTC 2004

The Corning, FreeLink Optical Transport System looked pretty good as well 
if you have the money for it.  Handles most weather, with the exception of 
fog.

http://www.corningcablesystems.com/web/news/press97.nsf/ehtml|ehtml/bc1e7d41f445a29d85256c07004a4b67?opendocument

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Mike Lyon wrote:

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> Can you get roof rights at both locations? If so, can you stand on one
> roof and see the other? If yes, go wireless. You will have the capital
> cost upfront but no monthly fees to pay to your friendly telco of
> choice each month. There are plenty of companies that manafacture
> telco quality radios for instances like this. Proxim, Alavarion,
> P-Com, RadioLAN, just to name a few.
>
> -Mike
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> On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 19:41:29 -0700, Roy <garlic at garlic.com> wrote:
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>> Oops Forgot my Sig
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>> Roy Engehausen
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>> Roy wrote:
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>>> I have used PacBell's GIGAMAN service at a number of locations.  Its
>>> basically "managed" fiber running GigE.
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu]On Behalf Of
>>> Bill Garrison
>>> Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 7:32 PM
>>> To: nanog at merit.edu
>>> Subject: Finding information about metro private line service in
>>> downtown SF
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I am investigating the options for linking up a new office to our
>>> (coincidentally) close datacenter in downtown San Francisco.  Both
>>> locations are SOMA and within about 10 minutes walking of each other.
>>>
>>> Calling SBC provided me with a rather clueless person telling me all
>>> about ATM, Frame Relay and other options I don't want.  To his credit,
>>> I believe I may have been defining what I want incorrectly.
>>>
>>> Since both areas are well within the same LATA (do people say that
>>> anymore?) I am simply looking for some sort of private line service be
>>> it fiber or copper.
>>>
>>> Who are the providers local to the area?  Is there any way of finding
>>> what is in the ground around me? (I know UPN Networks is in between
>>> our offices so I am confident there is fiber or copper all around us.)
>>>
>>> What are the easiest options for this sort of thing?  What kind of
>>> pricing might we be looking at?
>>>
>>> To give some perspective, we push a significant amount of bandwidth
>>> through our datacenter such that if the costs work out we would prefer
>>> a private line into our datacenter (for many reasons including cost,
>>> internet speed in the office, ability to have a backend entrance to
>>> our network for "offsite" backups, etc.).  We would also then just
>>> setup a DSL line or T1 for emergencies/failover.[1]
>>>
>>> Please reply offlist, thanks for any insight,
>>> Bill
>>>
>>> [1]: Our alternative is too just get a T1 with a DSL for manual
>>> failover but piping into our datacenter would provide a substantial
>>> number of benefits. (this is a small office with about 10 people all
>>> of whom can handle cold-swapping to DSL if ever needed...)
>>>
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