CenturyLink Telco Colocation - V3.0
Product Description
CenturyLink Telco Colocation service offers you, as a CenturyLink Internet Protocol (IP) or transport customer, the option to lease space in a CenturyLink point of presence (POP) or certain remote Colocation sites or Colocation hotels. Telco Colocation is not offered in CenturyLink Company facilities or regulated central offices. CenturyLink provides provisioned telecom space and DC power adapted specifically for telecom equipment. CenturyLink provides Telco Colocation as a bundled service available only as an enhancement to our IP and transport offerings.
With CenturyLink™ Telco Colocation, you have access to the CenturyLink transport backbone and services, eliminating local connection charges between you and your backbone provider, resulting in substantial cost savings for most customers. When coupled with necessary CenturyLink transport, Colocation provides secure, high speed access at a DS-3, OC-3 or higher rate without incurring the cost of leased lines to get to the POP. In addition for facility based providers, the ability to lease vs. build conditioned telecom space that is pre-provisioned results in cost savings and speed to market.
Features / Benefits
CenturyLink provides space and power specifically conditioned for telecom equipment and that is strategically located to physical or virtual connections to the CenturyLink backbone.
Tenant Improved (TI) POPs:
- Located in same site as CenturyLink backbone
- Installation and Monthly Recurring Charges (MRCs) for:
- Power (DC and/or unprotected AC)
- Rack/bay
- Associated cross-connects
Space
- Located in a Joint Usage Common Area (JUCA) accessible to all Colocation customers
- Floor space based on number of bays
- Security from public access: monitor intrusion alarms; escorted access to JUCA area
- HVAC: 50 - 86 degrees F ambient, 20-50% humidity
- Lighting: fluorescent overhead
- Fire suppression and monitoring
- Battery backup (DC power) minimum 4 hours with generator, 8 hours without generator
- Generator backup (available at most sites)
Standard Bay Size
- Height = 7 feet
- Width = 23 inches
- Depth = 15 inches
- Weight = 350 lbs. total customer equipment per bay
Standard Power
- 30 amps DC, A & B feeds separately fused
- Battery reserve, as available to CenturyLink
- Grounding
- Access to unprotected AC power for test equipment (courtesy outlets)
Interconnection Interface
- Optical OC-3 or greater
- Electrical DS-3
Custom Options (where available, at additional cost)
- Inverted AC power/UPS back-up
- Dedicated unprotected commercial grade AC power
- Additional DC power per bay in 10 amp increments
- Extended bay width, depth, height and weight
- Cabinets (not available with solid doors in TI POP and ROW sites due to cooling issues)
- Cages (on a very limited basis as available to CenturyLink )
- DS-1 connections via channelized DS-3s (available at 3/1 DACS locations only)
- POTS lines (customer ordered for dial-up modem access)
NOTE: Custom options may increase targeted due date beyond the standard installation interval
Colocation Hotel:
- Located in third-party vendor sites, but sold through CenturyLink
- Installation and MRCs for:
- Power (DC and/or AC)
- Rack/cabinets
- Raised floors
- Interconnection to CenturyLink™ backbone
- Associated cross-connects
Additional Information
Below is a list of certain restrictions associated with CenturyLink Telco Colocation. All Telco Colocation facilities and services will be subject to the terms and conditions of a fully executed Colocation agreements between you and CenturyLink . Contact your Wholesale Regional Sales Director for additional information.
Telco Colocation Restrictions:
- Subject to space and power availability at desired site
- Subject to bay and equipment height, depth, width and weight requirements
- Available access providers in CenturyLink POP
- Not permitted at ROW POPs unless related to Dark Fiber lease/sales transactions
- No third-party assignments allowed
- Minimum one-year term for each Colocation equipment space
- Cross-connecting of facilities to other Colocation customers or local exchange carriers (LECs) is not permitted within Colocation space (cross-connect service is available at points of interconnection)
- CenturyLink facilities are not carrier neutral
- Require service revenue commitments
- All non-CenturyLink employees scheduled to work in CenturyLink space must first obtain CenturyLink authorization
- All installations must be coordinated and scheduled through CenturyLink operations
- All installations must meet CenturyLink technical standards
Availability
Colocation is available in CenturyLink TI POPs, remote Colocation sites or Colocation hotels and is subject to availability of floor space and power within the selected site. You must also satisfy specific revenue requirements to be eligible to purchase Telco Colocation. Please contact your CenturyLink Sales Representative if you have any questions.
Ordering
Order requests should be submitted on online order forms (OLOFs) via Control Center. Control Center is an on-line, real-time order entry, processing, and reporting system designed specifically for your use. If you are a new customer, please contact your CenturyLink Regional Sales Director for access to Control Center.
Backhaul service requests are handled manually, however the order forms in Control Center allow for electronic transfer ordering capabilities.
Placing your orders using OLOFs allows them to flow into the order tracking system where your Service Delivery Representative (SDR) can easily access your order for manual processing. Control Center OLOFs are located by navigating to the Ordering link and then clicking on Online Order.
For additional information, refer to the National Ordering Overview.
Contacts
Please contact your Wholesale Regional Sales Director for more information. If you do not have a Wholesale Regional Sales Director, visit our Prospective Customer Inquiry Tool so we can provide you with the proper Wholesale sales representative to assist you.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
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The information contained herein does not constitute an offer by CenturyLink to provide services, equipment and/or materials. Any such services shall be provided only upon execution of and subject to the terms and conditions of a fully negotiated Wholesale Services Agreement (including any referenced attachments or exhibits) and/or other agreement between CenturyLink and Customer, if any. In no event shall any omission or generality in this document give rise to a binding obligation between the parties. All such terms are subject to negotiations until all terms and conditions are agreed to and incorporated into a final agreement.