I'm looking at Layerone.com. I know they only offer cabinets and cages and I need to provide equipment and bandwidth. But how do I do that? If I'm going to get bandwidth don't I have to buy on 100mbit connections. And that's $3000 - to a lot of money.

Also, for equipment. That doesn't just mean the server, right?

Thanks,
Mike

You might want to look at a smaller facility before going full blown with layerone if you only need one cabinet as you'll likely get a better price. Also, you really gonna use 100mbps in one cabinet? If not, it probably makes more sense to buy off another network in a far smaller perportion, because if you want cogent, unless you buy from another client, you cant get less then 100mbps :(

You could always look for a customer in LayerOne that already has a mesh and buy bandwidth off them.

If not you will need to provide your own switch/router and negotiate with the BW providers direct. This is a large investment!

I thought it would be a pretty big investment. I guess I won't go with Layerone.

Originally posted by mas3000
I thought it would be a pretty big investment. I guess I won't go with Layerone.

HUGE startup FEEs

Originally posted by ClusterMania


HUGE startup FEEs
Oh yeah! :D

wholesalecolo.com is in layer one. contact them about some space/bw, could save you a ton on setup fees by going thru them.