Data Center & Colocation Glossary

Plain-English definitions for 30 essential terms every buyer should know before signing a colocation contract.

Terms Covered

• Bandwidth Commit
• Burstable Billing (95th Percentile)
• Cage vs. Suite vs. Shared Space
• Carrier Hotel
• Colocation vs. Hosting
• CRAC Unit
• Cross-Connect
• Dark Fiber
• Demarc Point
• Generator Runtime
• kW vs. kVA
• Meet-Me Room
• MTTR
• NOC
• N / N+1 / 2N / 2N+1 Redundancy
• PDU
• PoP
• Power Density
• PUE
• Raised Floor
• Remote Hands
• SFP
• SLA
• Smart Hands
• SOC 2
• SSAE-18
• Tier I / II / III / IV
• Uptime % Explained

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