> On 21 Nov 2017, at 10:09, Robert Williams <rob...@custodiandc.com> wrote: > > Hi All, > > I’m uncertain if this is an appropriate place to ask, but here goes. First, > some necessary context: > > We are a rackspace/colocation, IP Transit and Ethernet services provider; and > due to the location of our primary site (in Maidstone, outside of London) we > find ourselves providing a lot of reasonable-capacity circuits (1G/10G) for > customers between Maidstone and <random location or DC in London> on a > regular basis. This is achieved using our own DWDM ring into London and back, > and enables us to remain competitively priced for comms solutions where > customers are looking to relocate outside of London. > > Now, we have an increasing number of customers requesting interconnection > services into AWS, GCP and Azure. Each of which has various ‘zones’ or > ‘regions’ or whatever flavour they label it. But they are all in specific > facilities and have specific interconnect points. As a result of this, we are > running lots of small links/tails into individual locations for individual > customers ‘cloud’ interconnects. This is very inefficient (and unnecessarily > costly) for everyone involved; it would be much easier if we just had a few > 10G ports into the 3 different providers and broke off vlans per-customer. > > As an existing LINX reseller partner, we already do exactly this and it works > really well. Delivery is (almost) immediate, 3rd party circuit costs are > reduced/eliminated and bandwidth can be adjusted on demand. > > We have no intention (or desire) to actually provide or manage any of the > services within these various clouds ourselves – nor do we wish to offer any > cloud-based solutions ourselves. This is (typically) what our direct > customers are doing; and they are the ones providing the end-users with the > complete solutions and we have no interest in competing with our own > customers of course. All we wish to do is to get the physical > interconnections pre-provisioned with all of the relevant providers and then > be able to (reasonably quickly) breakout vlans, per-customer, as a new order > comes in. > > Someone on my team has been looking into this and, thus far, has been unable > to find how this is actually achieved. However, they have found plenty of > information on how to become a solutions partner or a reseller-integrator > (i.e. buying cloud resources, adding your software/product or management > solution and then re-selling to the client) – but nothing about just “getting > a port” so you can enable the customer to pick up their existing services and > backhaul them to their racks. > > I am not saying we have done an exhaustive search by any means, but since we > have a need to move forwards with this quite quickly, I thought I’d take a > leap and ask on here as I imagine many of you have already been through this > and may know the quickest route. > > Happy for either direct responses or on-list, whatever you feel is > appropriate. Thanks for reading! > > Rob > Robert Williams > Custodian Data Centres > https://www.CustodianDC.com <https://www.custodiandc.com/>Apart from the > overly “sales pitch like” email (which I will be honest, almost got lost as > spam) - this is what IX Reach can do easily. Tried speaking to them? They > interconnect with the Cloud providers, and you can buy the port from them and > split it off how you like. Steve is on this list, too.
Maybe ask hem… I’m sure other providers can do it, but that’s the one I’d go to first.
