On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 05:04:09PM -0500, Rafael Possamai wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 1:46 PM, John Musbach <johnmusba...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> I'm a techie that recently moved to South Jersey for a tech job. To my >> astonishment, I discovered that there appears to be a Verizon >> datacenter near my house that has colocation:
> Be prepared to drop a lot of money for colocation with Verizon. Also, > quoting process is rather long and you will have to sign a NDA most likely, > which just makes it even more fun. For the size of your project I'd pick a > provider that focuses on colocation for small and medium businesses and is > easier to work with. ... There was once a time we were going to colo in a VZ facility within the same building our primary datacenter was (to receive favorable rates on cross-connects, etc). There was signing of NDAs, it took the better part of half a year for build out. Then it was announced ready to move in, and we asked the procedure to get cross-connects from outside the facility in (really the whole point of even getting colo there). Oh no, you can't have a cross-connect. Umm, the only reason we're doing this is to cross-connect to the colo. The sales people knew this from the start, and was a key provision. But the site manager was adamant, nothing comes in or out. I guess VZ thought the colo was ultimately to stand alone without talking to anybody. And they are a communications company. Boggle.