Does the arrangement you mention still require that Pacific Bell retain ownership of the equipment that is placed at the Pacific Bell site ? Is a draft online somewhere ? Thanks --pushpendra Pushpendra Mohta pushp@cerf.net +1 619 455 3908 Director, CERFnet http://www.cerf.net +1 619 455 3995 (FAX) Warren K. Williams writes:

Folks,

I need to clarify something regarding colocation at Pacific Bell. There has been a great deal of confusion out in the community regarding Pacific Bell's position on Colocation. Let me set the record straight here. For those NAP customers who need to colocate equipment as part of their NAP connection through us ** can ** do so. We have made an arrangement that fits within company guidelines that will allow us to place a customer's router, CSU/DSU... within our facilities for connection to the NAP. The facilities we provide have the standard data center enviromments (i.e. air conditioning, raised floor, standard racks, and monitored power). They also allow access to customer technicians (or their agents) for configuration and repair needs.

The question, however, is a bit moot given the way in which customers attach to an ATM NAP. ATM circuits are pulled to wherever the customer is (using the appropriate InterExchange Carrier to do interlata connections, of course). There is no need to co-locate equipment. No need for the additional capital invesment nor the introduction of an additional routing hop. If a customer has no locations in the bay area, it is simply a matter of setting up a "long-distance" connection. A couple of our customers are doing just that today.

FYI. Kind regards, Warren

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