Any Verizon datacenter techs about?

Thu Jun 25 21:47:01 UTC 2015

It looks more like a standard telco central office, not a data center.

Lyle

On 06/24/15 13:46, John Musbach 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:
>
> 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