[AusNOG] Carrier Access to Datacentres

[Mark Newton]

On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 04:22:26PM +1000, Skeeve Stevens wrote:

 > A customer of mine is a DC and has a large telco wanting a whole rack, with
 > power... but don't seem to want to pay for it.  I am just wondering what
 > others have done in these situations.

When I designed a datacentre in a previous life, I earmarked a 
reasonably-sized cage for carriers.

Each carrier was provided with a process for gaining access to a 
building entry, a 600x900 blob of floor space, and 1kW of protected
power (more available for a fee.  Carrier termination equipment tends
to be pretty light-on with power requirements, I don't think any of them
ever needed more than that)

Each carrier was required to run their own cabling from their rack
to a cross-connect patching rack in the carrier cage, and use the
ports in that rack as the service demarcation point.  That meant
that all of the cabling and equipment up to that point was owned
and maintained by the carrier, which makes it easy for carriers who
are allergic to using third-party cabling on their side of the 
network boundary.

Customers in the datacentre who wanted carrier services would 
independently order them from the carriers.  The carrier would tell 
them the demarc port.  The customer would then come to us to order
a cross-connect between the demarc port and their rack.

Easy for carriers. Easy for customers. Easy for datacentre operator.
Everyone's happy.

  - mark