Re: Links between cabinets at commercial datacentre

[Andy Rabagliati <andyr () wizzy com>]

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!