Colocation

Overview

Brightspeed offers Colocation services to allow you to co-locate at a Brightspeed premises for the purpose of obtaining access to Unbundled Network Elements (UNEs) or other telecommunication services.

Brightspeed has years of experience installing, maintaining, and cross-connecting facilities in 18 states. Brightspeed offers an environment conducive to telecommunications equipment in its central offices.

Using Brightspeed Colocation services, you may:

1. Avoid capital investment expenditures.
2. Get to market quicker than building your own facilities.
3. Access Brightspeed telecommunications services.

Features & Benefits

1. Shortened time to market - allows you to expand your network using existing real estate. Lower capital expenditures - reduces cost to market.
2. Minimum space requirements - allows you to lease in single bay increments.
3. Multiple connection levels available - (Voice, DS1, DS3, and Optical) - meets your current and future needs. Broad geographic coverage - allows you to expand your market within Brightspeed territories.
4. Access to Brightspeed unbundled loops - allows you to gain access to telecom services.

Product Details

Brightspeed Colocation services provide space within Brightspeed premises, enabling you to co-locate. Two types of Colocation are offered -- physical Colocation and virtual Colocation.

Physical Colocation arrangement - You lease space for your equipment. This space may have a security enclosure (Caged Physical Colocation) or may be unsecured (Cageless Physical Colocation). You order the appropriate cross-connects to connect your equipment to other services to access Unbundled Network Elements (UNEs) or other telecom services. You supply cabling pulled by Brightspeed from a manhole or other designated interconnection point, through the vault, riser, and conduit space and up to your Colocation space. You are responsible for maintaining the collocated equipment.

Virtual Colocation arrangement - You provide your equipment and Brightspeed will maintain it. You order the appropriate cross-connects to connect your equipment to UNEs or telecom services. You meet Brightspeed at a manhole or other designated interconnection point. This interconnection point defines the physical demarcation point between your facilities and Brightspeed facilities. Brightspeed will provide cabling and conduit from this interconnection point to your virtual Colocation point within the Brightspeed premises. Virtual Colocation is only offered when physical Colocation space is exhausted.

Colocation may consist of one or more of the following -- floor space, security enclosure, AC power, DC power, cabling, conduit space, vault space, riser space and cross connects. Cross-connects are offered at DS1, DS3 and Optical levels. Installation and maintenance may also apply.

Business Applications

• Brightspeed Colocation services allow you to co-locate at Brightspeed premises for the purposes of interconnecting and providing services.
• Brightspeed Colocation services allow you access to telecommunications services.
• Brightspeed Colocation services allow you the option to avoid leasing or building elsewhere.

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