[1448] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: PacBell NAP and Co-location
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pushpendra Mohta)
Thu Jan 18 21:27:58 1996
From: Pushpendra Mohta <pushp@CERF.NET>
To: wkwilli@PacBell.COM (Warren K. Williams)
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 18:14:55 -0800 (PST)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <9601190010.AA14345@popper.PacBell.COM> from "Warren K. Williams" at Jan 18, 96 04:10:10 pm
Does the arrangement you mention still require that Pacific Bell
retain ownership of the equipment that is placed at the Pacific Bell
site ?
Is a draft online somewhere ?
Thanks
--pushpendra
Pushpendra Mohta pushp@cerf.net +1 619 455 3908
Director, CERFnet http://www.cerf.net +1 619 455 3995 (FAX)
Warren K. Williams writes:
>
> Folks,
>
> I need to clarify something regarding colocation at Pacific Bell. There has
> been a great deal of confusion out in the community regarding Pacific Bell's
> position on Colocation. Let me set the record straight here. For those NAP
> customers who need to colocate equipment as part of their NAP connection
> through us ** can ** do so. We have made an arrangement that fits within
> company guidelines that will allow us to place a customer's router,
> CSU/DSU... within our facilities for connection to the NAP. The facilities
> we provide have the standard data center enviromments (i.e. air
> conditioning, raised floor, standard racks, and monitored power). They also
> allow access to customer technicians (or their agents) for configuration and
> repair needs.
>
> The question, however, is a bit moot given the way in which customers attach
> to an ATM NAP. ATM circuits are pulled to wherever the customer is (using
> the appropriate InterExchange Carrier to do interlata connections, of
> course). There is no need to co-locate equipment. No need for the additional
> capital invesment nor the introduction of an additional routing hop. If a
> customer has no locations in the bay area, it is simply a matter of setting
> up a "long-distance" connection. A couple of our customers are doing just
> that today.
>
> FYI.
> Kind regards,
> Warren
>
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> Warren K. Williams, Director - Network Access Point
> Pacific Bell Business Communications Services
> Email: wkwilli@pacbell.com Phone: 510.867.9065
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