Re: Massive Price Increase for X-conns at Telehouse Chelsea, NYC

[JASON BOTHE via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>]

Correct. Behold the ‘active riser’. We started doing this years ago in our R&E network after we were being nickeled and 
dimes to cross floors between our own cages we leased from the same colo. 


> On Sep 17, 2018, at 15:23, Ben Cannon <ben () 6by7 net> wrote:
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> fs.com has got this ready to go.  Less than that.
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> > On Sep 17, 2018, at 12:54 PM, Joe Maimon <jmaimon () jmaimon com> wrote:
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> > Ethan O'Toole wrote:
> > > > If it’s in an interduct by itself, how much would the square footage per
> > > > month occupied by the average cross connect be worth?
> > >
> > > These big datacenter companies are REITs. Similar to self-storage units and apartment buildings, they exist to 
> > > extract as much money as possible from the users. Nothing more or nothing less. The price relief only comes when 
> > > the market is grossly overbuilt and if there is actual competition.
> > >
> > >           - Ethan O'Toole
> > For a positive side effect, xcon pricing should bring greater demand to dwdm solutions, what would you recommend for 
> > an affordable 1u turnkey buy a pair and get >10<30 1g/10g maybe a couple of 40 even a 100g (and mon/expansion)?
> >
> >
> > Joe