Talk:Colocation centre

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Superscript textSmall Text== Spelling? == shouldn't this be spelled "collocation" ?

I've seen the phrase "co-location center" used, too, but neither this nor that is more popular than "colocation center". While we're at it, google finds more results for the American spelling, which is probably because the US market is larger. --Joy [shallot] 21:05, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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I'm not sure this article is headed in the right direction, honestly. It's correct WRT things which really *are* carrier hotels, but there are lots of colo sites that are not: they're merely datacenters built with one or more uplinks wherein a webhosting facility (usually) rents out rack space to customers who want to manage their own boxes.

Any thoughts on that, folks? --Baylink 21:17, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Equivalent to telehousing facility

Is Telehousing facility equivalant to Colocation centre or is there a difference, if there is what is it, if there isnt then it should probably be mentioned in the article. Htaccess 01:22, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] GlassFibre ring?

Can someone who knows what a glassfibre ring is, either make a subsequent page or add it to the reference in this article. Or remove the reference. Thanks, Moitio (talk) 20:16, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Yes, what exactly is a GlassFibre Ring? Google yields nothing and I think it might be a made up term or a bastardization of Fibre Optic and network ring. Omicron91 (talk) 18:18, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Title/terminology

I don't know about anyone else, but I don't really like the term colocation facility for a Telehouse-style facility (which I think is what this article intends to be about). Colocated essentially means in the same location as. You colocate your server with your ISP when you install it in your ISP's location.

But, logically, a colocation facility is a facility where you can put things, which will then be in the same location as, well, other things in that facility. It seems pretty much utterly meaningless as a term.

Carrier hotel - well, I confess I don't really know what one is - it's not a term I'm used to hearing that often. Maybe it's just a US thing?

Personally I'd refer to Telehouse et al as a carrier-neutral datacentre. Datacentre should be obvious, and carrier-neutral because telecommunications services (mainly, but not necessarily entirely, Internet services) are provided by any carrier that chooses to offer services there, rather than by the datacentre operator itself or by carrier(s) who have a concession from the operator.

However, I guess this might be a little contentious for me to go a-renaming :-)

What do other people think?

Roy Badami 23:01, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Further thoughts

On the other hand, Colocation redirects here, and I'm not sure that makes sense, regardless of what this article is (or thinks it should be) about.

I think maybe it should be split into an article on Colocation and an article on carrier-neutral datacentres

Roy Badami 23:08, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Companies in the States are increasingly utilizing the higher ROI of a colo than burdening themselves with the
overhead of an internal datacenter. There are different levels of service with a colo that range from "Full"
to "None", where "Full" means they handle everything: They have the technicians that will monitor, update/patch
software, upgrade/replace hardware, etc. They assume responsibility for the security of
your data, guarantee 99.99% availability, perform backups, etc. That level of service is very expensive, but for
a small/medium sized company that wants the advantages of being on the web, but doesn't have the budget for the
expertise or monitoring it requires, it is the perfect solution. Often, companies will use them for their
customer facing, critical and/or production servers, and keep the rest of the equipment in their data center.
I do know that a telecommunications flavor of colo exists as well, but it hasn't experienced near the popularity
seen by the datacenter variety.
I have never heard the term "carrier-neutral datacentres" here. If one were to describe one to, say, a Network
Admin in Texas, that tech would likely respond, "You mean, a colo?".

Respectfully submitted, Stacy Luciani, MCSE —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.205.71.60 (talk) 22:07, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

The concept of co-location is not and industry specific term. It is used in many businesses to describe the practice of including multiple similar or complementary concepts such as restaurants (KFC/Pizza Hut) or supermarkets (Donut shops or Starbucks in a supermarket) in a single location. - Jeremy (Jerem43 (talk) 20:47, 22 December 2007 (UTC))