[100758] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Getting DSL at your datacenter for OOB
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (S. Ryan)
Thu Nov 8 10:25:07 2007
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 07:23:52 -0800
From: "S. Ryan" <auser@mind.net>
To: Alex Pilosov <alex@pilosoft.com>
CC: David Ulevitch <davidu@everydns.net>, Nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0711080213080.22420-100000@bawx.pilosoft.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
I don't understand why stand alone (naked) DSL is so hard to get in
non-Qwest territory. Qwest will provision one no questions asked or needed.
Alex Pilosov wroteth on 11/7/2007 11:15 PM:
> On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, David Ulevitch wrote:
>
>> We had a great experience doing this with Sonic.net at PAIX in Palo Alto
>> but have had no success at our other sites. (Sonic.net isn't a national
>> DSL provider)
>>
>> Has anyone found providers who can provision DSL circuits at: EQNX ASH,
>> the MMR at 111 8th, and the Westin in Seattle? Speakeasy, after trying
>> valiantly, finally just gave up saying they just couldn't make it
>> happen.
> It's not rocket science. You order POTS line from the LEC. Then you order
> DSL from your favorite shared-line DSL provider on that POTS line.
>
> Trying to get non-lineshared-dsl might be a challenge.
>
> However, I recommend POTS + DSL, for additional OOB-ness, you can plug
> your DSL modem into the OOB ethernet and your analog modem into OOB serial
> network.
>
> fwiw, we are providing dsl to 111 8th MMR, the one running the free wifi
> there :)
>
>
> -alex [not posting as mlc anything]
>
>
>
