Data center rented out to multiples clients concurrently, utilizing common power and cooling
Also known as co-location · colo · carrier hotel · colocation data center · colocation data centre
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A colocation centre or "carrier hotel", is a type of data centre where equipment, space, and bandwidth are available for rental to retail customers. Colocation facilities provide space, power, cooling, and physical security for the server, storage, and networking equipment of other firms and also connect them to a variety of telecommunications and network service providers with a minimum of cost and complexity. The term "carrier hotel" can refer to a data centre focused on connecting customer and carrier networks together. Colocation centres often host private peering connections between their customers, internet transit providers, internet service providers, cloud providers, meet-me rooms for connecting customers together Internet exchange points, and landing points and terminal equipment for fibre optic submarine communication cables, connecting the internet, for example at the network access point known as NAP of the Americas, which connects many Latin American ISPs with networks in the US.