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Verizon 4G LTE Tests Planned For Seattle, Boston
suraj.sun writes "Verizon will kick off tests of its LTE network in Seattle and Boston later this year, and is 'working on a commercial launch of LTE service in up to 30 markets next year. LTE is Verizon's next-generation, '4G' network, which will supplement and eventually replace its existing CDMA network and provide average data speeds between 8-12 Mbps. Their ultimate goal is to cover 100 million 'points of presence' nationwide by the end of 2013."
Perhaps others have better results from them, but we are in a Verizon colo and have seen firsthand the inefficiency and general bungling of routine items.
We needed more power for our new SAN and blade cabinet... took them MONTHS. They bickered back and forth over what was needed (we gave them the specs at their insistence and they kept arguing between departments about what was needed).
Recently we asked them to move our T-1's and 8 copper lines from one cabinet to the adjacent cabinet. They've tentatively given us a September date and have insisted the charge will be $600-700.
They have received packages for us and not notified us (the SAN calls in defective drives and sometimes HP's system doesn't notify us. We are currently going through the nightmare of migrating off ISEE to their new system which requires at least 2 dedicated blades -- which can't be VM's -- but that's another story).
We asked for a sister colo in Atlanta to have a seamless private connection with the Miami Verizon colo. They had no idea what we were talking about and said there was no way it could be done, and they quoted us significantly HIGHER prices for the same bandwidth for this backup site.
The racks at our Verizon datacenter are so close to their doors that the blade servers can't use their attachment for USB2 connectors (they stick out the front of the blades). There's little room for routing cables properly inside a fully populated cabinet because the door offset is so small.
I hope the phone company end of it performs better than the telco/computing end of it but I'm not holding my breath.