Urgent need for bandwidth in Chiswick/London
Howdy. Please excuse the semi-offtopic post. My company is looking for bandwidth at the location below before Christmas. So that pretty much rules out your standard leased-line options. Leased line looks to be about 60 days out or so. Does anyone know of any MAN (or anything else for that matter) options at this location? Building 10 Chiswick Park 566 Chiswick High Road London W4 5XS Thanks in advance, Mike
You could give Interxion a try. They have metro ethernet services out of the london area that could backhaul to the address below. www.interxion.com On 11/2/06, Mike Lyon <mike.lyon@gmail.com> wrote:
Howdy. Please excuse the semi-offtopic post. My company is looking for bandwidth at the location below before Christmas. So that pretty much rules out your standard leased-line options. Leased line looks to be about 60 days out or so.
Does anyone know of any MAN (or anything else for that matter) options at this location?
Building 10 Chiswick Park 566 Chiswick High Road London W4 5XS
Thanks in advance, Mike
Mike Lyon wrote:
Howdy. Please excuse the semi-offtopic post. My company is looking for bandwidth at the location below before Christmas. So that pretty much rules out your standard leased-line options. Leased line looks to be about 60 days out or so.
Does anyone know of any MAN (or anything else for that matter) options at this location?
Building 10 Chiswick Park 566 Chiswick High Road London W4 5XS
BT contractual delivery date is 60 working days, i.e 3 months. The alternative telcos quote shorter lead times, however if your installation requires construction (i.e. road digging) you're likely to be out of luck. That would seem unlikely, however, given the development is quite new and large (I used to travel by it every day so know it slightly). I would contact the landlord and ask for a list of on-site telcos. It's likely that someone like COLT, Abovenet, Thus, and so on are onsite and will be able to deliver service reasonably quickly. This is all assuming fibre, of course - you didn't say just how much bandwidth you need. SDSL (don't forget multipair bonded) can be delivered on a much shorter timescale (~2 weeks) and may be an acceptable alternative. If so, look for the more specialist business ISPs on adslguide.org.uk Will
Does anyone know of any MAN (or anything else for that matter) options at this location?
Yes, somebody does know but they are unlikely to be on this list. In general, for any commercial building in any city, there is a building manager who takes care of utilities, air conditioning, heating systems, etc. This person or persons will be aware of any and all telecommunications circuits into the building and which companies send technicians to monkey around with the comms closet. That should be your first port of call. If that person is too hard to get answers from, next best is to talk to neighbouring commercial buildings because MANs are built in rings so chances are that one of the companies connected to neighbouring buildings will also be in yours. Third port of call is to contact the sales departments of all the companies offering MAN services in your city. Since they have a chance to win some business, they will be happy to research their internal records to find out whether or not they have infrastructure in your building. Fourth port of call is your other technical contacts in the city/country in question. And maybe in the fifth position, or lower, is a general mailing list like NANOG. My question is, did you actually go through all the above BEFORE posting to NANOG? --Michael Dillon
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