Collocation

Overview

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

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

Using Sprint's Collocation services, you may:

• Avoid capital investment expenditures.
• Get to market quicker than building your own facilities.
• Access Sprint's Unbundled Network Elements or other telecommunications services.

Sites Closed to Collocation

Collocation Application - All States

Approved Vendors

Florida
North Carolina

Features & Benefits

• Shortened time to market - allows you to expand your network using existing real estate.
• Lower capital expenditures - reduces cost to market.
• Minimum space requirements - allows you to lease in single bay increments.
• Multiple connection levels available - (Voice/DS0, DS1, DS3, and Optical) - meets your current and future needs.
• Broad geographic coverage - allows you to expand your market within Sprint Local Telecommunications Division (LTD) territories.
• Access to Sprint's unbundled loops - allows you to gain access to Unbundled Network Elements (UNEs) or other telecom services.

Product Details

Sprint's Collocation services provide space within Sprint's premises, enabling you to co-locate. Two types of collocation are offered -- physical collocation and virtual collocation.

Physical collocation arrangement - You lease space for your equipment. This space may have a security enclosure (Caged Physical Collocation) or may be unsecured (Cageless Physical Collocation). 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 Sprint from a manhole or other designated interconnection point, through the vault, riser, and conduit space and up to your collocation space. You are responsible for maintaining the collocated equipment.

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

Collocation 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 DS0, DS1, DS3 and Optical levels. Installation and maintenance may also apply.

Business Applications

• Sprint's Collocation services allow you to co-locate at Sprint premises for the purposes of interconnecting and providing services.
• Sprint's Collocation services allow you access to Unbundled Network Elements (UNEs) or other telecommunications services.
• Sprint's Collocation services allow you the option to avoid leasing or building elsewhere.

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