Any Verizon datacenter techs about?

[bill at herrin.us (William Herrin)]

On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 4:11 PM, Robert Seastrom
<rs at rs.hmail.seastrom.com> wrote:
> On Jun 26, 2015, at 11:34 AM, William Herrin <bill at herrin.us> wrote:
>> 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

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