There is not enough information for me to formulate an intelligent assessment. At first viewing, my money says it's probably more trouble than it's worth. But I'll give it a try.
Are you saying that the "equipment/lines" that were installed "under the building" were abandoned by the ILEC? What do you mean by "under the building?" In the basement? Is it a fiber-optic or copper cable? 35,000 lines would represent an OC-48 operating at 2.5 Gb/s, including overhead. So, I guess the equipment that you referenced is an add-drop mux rated at this speed attached to a fiber cable. If true, it's beyond weird that the carrier would leave the hardware there.
Where does the other end of the cable go?
I cannot see the same level or value here that the "consultant" assigns to it, unless the building itself was going to be turned into a colocation center, or a CLEC site, or web hosting site, and you could get the ILEC to share it. Yeah, right.
But even then, you would need their complicity, and it's their right of way that's being used. And supposedly, the ILEC also sits at the other end of the cable. If they saw the value they would reclaim it, themselves.
If it were truly abandoned and the original route from the central office had any appreciable length to it, then it was most likely snipped at the time that it was abandoned and left as a stub to nowhere, and someone forgot or stil hasn't gotten around to go out and reclaim the mux. I could be wrong, but like I said, there isn't enough info to go on. |
