[51125] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Eliminating physical colocation (was Re: Shared facilities)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Leber)
Wed Aug 21 13:56:58 2002
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 10:56:25 -0700 (PDT)
From: Mike Leber <mleber@he.net>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.40.0208211334190.27087-100000@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
LOL, heck of a way to make it so they never have to sell another unbundled
network element.
Mike.
On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Sean Donelan wrote:
>
> On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Martin Hannigan wrote:
> > Since Sept 11, my experience probably doesn't cut the mustard, but that's
> > how it has been to this point.
>
> Consider the various public statements on colocation security.
>
> http://www.state.ma.us/dpu/catalog/6688.htm
>
> "Verizon MA believes that the most effective means of ensuring network
> safety and reliability is to eliminate physical collocation entirely in
> all its COs, converting existing physical collocation arrangements to
> virtual and requiring that all future collocation arrangements be
> virtual only."
>
> Of course, this is a very different colocation model than used by
> companies such as Equinix. Just because they use the same terms doesn't
> make them the same thing.
>
>
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