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:

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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 connections inside the colo, MFS and later Worldcom demanded that one pay for a zero 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-it-was "data rate" prices.

5) They managed to extend outside-the-building circuits from the node room 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 drive 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 telling. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin ................ herrin@dirtside.com bill@herrin.us Owner, Dirtside Systems ......... Web: <http://www.dirtside.com/>