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"BGP at home": getting a DIA circuit installed at home

The infrastructure underlying AS54316 -- the network supporting the services offered by the AP Foundation -- has historically been based out of a datacenter in NYC (NetActuate in Telehouse Chelsea). To add some resiliency, I thought it'd be interesting -- and a potentially fun challenge -- to leverage some spare real estate at my home in neighboring Connecticut, rather co-locating at another datacenter location.

Ultimately I decided to move forward with Verizon Enterprise given they claimed my home was already "on net" (meaning "on network", implying no build-out fee), and had transparent pricing which they actually listed on their website (no other provider did). A few days passed while Verizon's engineering team processed the site survey and planned the construction on their end, and then I eventually got a "firm order commitment" date for around ~1.5 months later (the guaranteed "go-live"). A couple of weeks passed since the last dispatch; after checking in, Verizon said a crew of two splicers were working in manholes to "get the fiber pairs to my site", meaning from their local central office to the new server rack.

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