Howdy. Please excuse the semi-offtopic post. My company is looking for
bandwidth at the location below before Christmas. So that pretty much
rules out your standard leased-line options. Leased line looks to be
about 60 days out or so.
Does anyone know of any MAN (or anything else for that matter) options
at this location?
Building 10
Chiswick Park
566 Chiswick High Road
London W4 5XS
Thanks in advance,
Mike
You could give Interxion a try. They have metro ethernet services out of the london area that could backhaul to the address below.
Mike Lyon wrote:
Howdy. Please excuse the semi-offtopic post. My company is looking for
bandwidth at the location below before Christmas. So that pretty much
rules out your standard leased-line options. Leased line looks to be
about 60 days out or so.Does anyone know of any MAN (or anything else for that matter) options
at this location?Building 10
Chiswick Park
566 Chiswick High Road
London W4 5XS
BT contractual delivery date is 60 working days, i.e 3 months.
The alternative telcos quote shorter lead times, however if your installation requires construction (i.e. road digging) you're likely to be out of luck. That would seem unlikely, however, given the development is quite new and large (I used to travel by it every day so know it slightly).
I would contact the landlord and ask for a list of on-site telcos. It's likely that someone like COLT, Abovenet, Thus, and so on are onsite and will be able to deliver service reasonably quickly.
This is all assuming fibre, of course - you didn't say just how much bandwidth you need. SDSL (don't forget multipair bonded) can be delivered on a much shorter timescale (~2 weeks) and may be an acceptable alternative. If so, look for the more specialist business ISPs on adslguide.org.uk
Will
Does anyone know of any MAN (or anything else for that matter) options
at this location?
Yes, somebody does know but they are unlikely to
be on this list. In general, for any commercial
building in any city, there is a building manager
who takes care of utilities, air conditioning, heating
systems, etc. This person or persons will be aware of
any and all telecommunications circuits into the building
and which companies send technicians to monkey around
with the comms closet. That should be your first port
of call.
If that person is too hard to get answers from, next
best is to talk to neighbouring commercial buildings
because MANs are built in rings so chances are that
one of the companies connected to neighbouring buildings
will also be in yours.
Third port of call is to contact the sales departments
of all the companies offering MAN services in your city.
Since they have a chance to win some business, they will
be happy to research their internal records to find out
whether or not they have infrastructure in your building.
Fourth port of call is your other technical contacts
in the city/country in question.
And maybe in the fifth position, or lower, is a general
mailing list like NANOG.
My question is, did you actually go through all the above
BEFORE posting to NANOG?
--Michael Dillon