Any Verizon datacenter techs about?

Thu Jun 25 21:37:32 UTC 2015

On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 5:32 PM, Christopher Morrow
<morrowc.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 2:46 PM, John Musbach <johnmusbach1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm a techie that recently moved to South Jersey for a tech job. To my
>> astonishment, I discovered that there appears to be a Verizon
>> datacenter near my house that has colocation:
>
> how / why did you think this has colocation?
>

https://www22.verizon.com/wholesale/attachments/space-exhaust/Web_UpdateSouth.pdf

if you search for somers point in there this looks like a Central
office which might offer future physical (future from 2012)
colocation, but I bet you'd have to be a CLEC to take advantage of
this...

>>
>> http://imgur.com/a/PdGno
>>
>> It's in Somers Point, NJ. While I could not find an address on the
>> building, it is on the corner of Bethel Rd and N New Rd. I've tried
>> walking around back to see if I could talk to anyone about colocation
>> but could not find anyone outside. I've also tried calling Verizon but
>> support wasn't very helpful. My question is, what does it take to get
>> some colocation space inside of that building? Me and my roommate both
>> have a 1u we'd like to rack and having it racked in a datacenter
>> walking distance from where we live would be awesome. What we'd need:
>>
>> 2u space
>> 4 power drops for the servers (2 psu per server)
>> 2 100Mbps ethernet drops with static IPs
>>
>> I'm not sure if that's too little to ask for colocation or not, but
>> that really is all we'd need. Is there anyone about that knows what
>> we'd need to acquire such space, cost, badging, etc? If so, can you
>> please reply offlist?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> John M