On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Bill Woodcock wrote:
Or are they simply not allowed to purchase "unlit" service at all? That is, are tenants in the data center only allowed to purchase circuits from the telco, as opposed to crossconnects?
This is not the Telco - this is a commercial, large, datacenter. No connections between cabinets. Period.
> While acknowledging that a data center may make any rules it likes, I > am asking nanog how common this practice is.
This is very uncommon. Rules like these do exist, but facilities with such rules very rarely attract enough customers to be worthy of interest to people building exchanges.
That is exactly why we are locating the exchange outside the datacenter. However, we are still a prisoner of this rule, as peers must separately 'purchase' connectivity to us - basically a fee for connectivity. South Africa has few large colo facilities. Because of the large expense of cross-town connects, an artifact of Telkom as a monopoly provider, we are obliged to locate in the same building as the datacenter. To reiterate, Telkom is not a factor in costing the peering point connectivity to the datacenter. Cheers, Andy!