Colocation centre

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A colocation centre (also spelled co-location, or shortened to colo) 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 center focused on connecting customer and carrier networks together.^[1] Colocation centers often host private peering connections between their customers, internet transit providers, cloud providers,^[2][3] meet-me rooms for connecting customers together^[4] Internet exchange points,^[5][6] and landing points and terminal equipment for fiber optic submarine communication cables,^[7] 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.^[8]