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Finding information about metro private line service in downtown SF
From: Bill Garrison <william.lloyd.garrison () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 19:32:15 -0700
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...)
Current thread:
- Finding information about metro private line service in downtown SF Bill Garrison (Oct 27)
- RE: Finding information about metro private line service in downtown SF Roy (Oct 27)
- Re: Finding information about metro private line service in downtown SF Roy (Oct 27)
- Re: Finding information about metro private line service in downtown SF Mike Lyon (Oct 27)
- Re: Finding information about metro private line service in downtown SF Jeff Rosowski (Oct 28)
- RE: Finding information about metro private line service in downtown SF Charlie Khanna - NextWeb (Oct 28)
- Re: Finding information about metro private line service in downtown SF Robert E . Seastrom (Oct 28)
- Re: Finding information about metro private line service in downtown SF Tom (UnitedLayer) (Oct 28)
- Re: Finding information about metro private line service in downtown SF Mike Lyon (Oct 28)
- Re: Finding information about metro private line service in downtown SF Roy (Oct 27)
- RE: Finding information about metro private line service in downtown SF Roy (Oct 27)