Some (maybe most) cities have a sort of meetup location where all the
carriers rent space next to each other. Sometimes in the same building
with the CO or often it's next door. IMO The best scenario is to rent
your own room in such a building, bring your own transport to it, and
then run ethernet inside the building to your carrier of choice. That
minimizes your loop cost.
I'm not sure how those carrier hotels get started.....I assume one big
guy moves in and then everybody wants to be next door to him.
Assuming Century Link is your local exchange carrier:
They probably meet in the CL central office. CL owns the last mile of
facilities to you. You would have to find another company that
actually owns fiber facilities near you to be able to have an option.
Maybe I have it backwards, but whoever is the local exchange carrier,
they probably hand off to the other company at their (ILEC/RBOC)
central office.
Are there any regional fiber companies in your area?
*From:* TJ Trout <mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:* Wednesday, February 25, 2015 11:10 PM
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject:* [AFMUG] "Local loop"
So I'm looking over a upstream quote from century link for 1 gig dia
and they are using att as the local loop, where exactly does att and
century link meet so that CL picks up the local loop and gives me ip
transit ? Just some common exchange where they both have facilities ?
Would be a lot cheaper if I could just get the same local loop price
to some internet exchange (same exchange as this quote? Who knows)
where I could pickup some cheap transit...
My only option at this location is att, anyone have any feedback on
some arrangement that isn't uber expensive ?
