A data center's value comes as much from what it hosts as from what it connects you to: carriers, clouds, exchanges, other sites. Good interconnection means better latency, resilience and cost.
Design & price my architecture →Interconnection covers cross-connect (physical in-building link to a carrier or cloud), inter-site links (Ethernet, dark fiber, WDM), direct cloud access (Direct Connect, ExpressRoute…) and peering at internet exchanges (IXP).
A physical link (fiber or copper) run by the data center between your rack and another customer or carrier in the same building, usually via the meet-me room.
Via an on-ramp: a cross-connect to the cloud provider's point of presence (Direct Connect, ExpressRoute, Interconnect), or a circuit to the data center where it is present.
Carriers present in both sites. DataColoc identifies common carriers and the possible link type (Ethernet, dark fiber).
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