[181510] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Any Verizon datacenter techs about?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Fri Jun 26 17:27:51 2015
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From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 17:25:23 -0400
To: Robert Seastrom <rs@rs.hmail.seastrom.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 4:11 PM, Robert Seastrom
<rs@rs.hmail.seastrom.com> wrote:
> On Jun 26, 2015, at 11:34 AM, William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> wrote:
>> I'm told second hand that when MCI/worldcom (now Verizon Business)
>> controlled 8100 Boone Blvd (the early MAE-East) you had to buy a data
>> circuit from them to get between floors. Not a cable or a
>> cross-connect. A data circuit at the 0-mile tariffed price.
>
> 4) The sole grain of truth to this story is that for inter-cabinet connec=
tions inside the colo, MFS and later Worldcom demanded that one pay for a z=
ero mile local loop and that the circuit pass through actual transport kit =
so that it could be "managed" - and also billed at insanely-high-for-what-i=
t-was "data rate" prices.
>
> 5) They managed to extend outside-the-building circuits from the node roo=
m to the colo room on a very-long-patch-cord basis, but it was like pulling=
teeth to get them to agree to *not* put a pair of muxes back to back to dr=
ive 400 feet of fiber down to B2 where the facility I managed was. Finally=
, after many escalations sanity prevailed and the fiber that got installed =
from 5 to B2 was 288-strand SMF-28 to a patch panel... and no muxes.
Hah! Well, like I said, I had it second hand. Stories do grow in the tellin=
g.
Regards,
Bill Herrin
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William Herrin ................ herrin@dirtside.com bill@herrin.us
Owner, Dirtside Systems ......... Web: <http://www.dirtside.com/>
