[181476] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Any Verizon datacenter techs about?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Lockhart)
Fri Jun 26 11:26:13 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 16:26:08 +0100
From: Simon Lockhart <simon@slimey.org>
To: Doug McIntyre <merlyn@geeks.org>
In-Reply-To: <20150626142653.GB80937@geeks.org>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Fri Jun 26, 2015 at 09:26:53AM -0500, Doug McIntyre wrote:
> I guess VZ thought the colo was ultimately to stand alone without
> talking to anybody. And they are a communications company.
And there-in lies the answer to your question. They're a communications
company. They want to sell you communications services. They don't want you
to buy communications services from other providers.
If you want to provide your own communications circuits, don't buy datacentre
space from a communications company.
Simon
