Colocation Data Center - Carrier Hotel for Servers

A Colocation Data Center is also known as a carrier hotel which is a place where people allocate their servers, network and storage interconnecting to many different network service providers and telecommunications with a minimum fee and complexity depending on the customer's needs.

A data center plays an important role to many organizations in terms of security, fast network and better results for data transmission. A shared data centre infrastructure helps an organization to save cost and time management in the business. Colocation service providers provide you better network traffic and greater bandwidth for a better performance.

Potential customers are companies who are web commerce based who needs cost effective and redundant Internet connections, and safe environment, big companies who wants offsite data backup, disaster avoidance, and business continuity and telecommunication companies who needs to interexchange traffic with other service providers, and also to access to potential customers' data.

There are server racks that you can see from most server rooms, and facilities such as fire protection equipments or systems such as smoke detectors, fire sprinkler system and fire wall, 23 inches telecommunication equipments racks and 19 inches data equipment and server racks, cabinets and others and 24 hour air conditioning so that the room will not be overheat or humid.

Most colocation centres are built in with highly security systems like the 24 hour CCTVs and may be guarded so that unauthorized people are not allowed to enter the building. Other security equipments may be use such as voice recognition, security PIN and fingerprint recognitions.

In case of power failure, power generators running on diesel fuel are used as backup. Other than that, there are backup batteries available because generators are not able to start instantly. For some customers, they will have smaller version UPS installed at their racks.

An example of colocation data center is located Jacksonville, Florida. It is Northeast Florida's biggest colocation data centre that is connected to more than 50 telecommunication companies and 15 carriers.