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Who is Co-Location?
Co-Location is a data center services company that provides colocation, connectivity, and related infrastructure solutions for enterprise and service-provider workloads.
- Retail and wholesale colocation services in professionally managed data centers
- Physical rack, cabinet, and cage space with power and cooling for customer-owned hardware
- Network and internet connectivity options, including carrier access and cross-connects (network infrastructure)
- Remote hands and on-site operational support for installed equipment (managed infrastructure services)
- Enterprise-focused facilities designed for uptime, security controls, and predictable capacity planning
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More About Co-Location
Co-Location operates as a data center and colocation provider, offering facilities where enterprises, cloud-native businesses, network operators, and service providers deploy and operate their own servers, storage arrays, and networking hardware. Customers bring their physical infrastructure into Co-Location data centers to obtain stable power, environmental conditioning, and structured connectivity without operating their own facility.
The company’s core service is colocation space in the form of racks, cabinets, and secure cages, with metered or committed power allocations and redundant cooling. This model supports a range of architectures, from traditional three-tier applications to virtualized and containerized platforms, private cloud stacks, and hybrid deployments that interconnect with public cloud regions. Enterprises use these environments to host production applications, Disaster Recovery (DR) sites, content delivery nodes, and edge or interconnection points for multi-cloud networking.
Network and connectivity services (network infrastructure) are a central element, typically including access to multiple carriers, Internet Service Providers (ISP), and peering options, along with physical cross-connects between tenants. These capabilities allow customers to design architectures with low-latency links to partners, clouds, or network backbones, and to implement designs aligned with frameworks such as hub-and-spoke, mesh interconnect, or regional aggregation nodes. Standard data center technologies such as Ethernet switching, optical transport, BGP-based routing, Virtual LAN (VLAN) segmentation, and Virtual Private Network (VPN) or private circuit integration are commonly used within these facilities.
From a security and operations perspective, Co-Location focuses on physical access controls, surveillance, visitor management, and controlled access to cages and suites, complementing customer-owned logical and application security. Remote hands services (managed infrastructure services) support day-to-day operations such as equipment reboots, cabling changes, visual inspections, and basic hardware interventions, enabling enterprises to operate infrastructure without maintaining full-time staff on-site.
In the enterprise IT marketplace, Co-Location fits into categories such as colocation data centers, network interconnection hubs, and managed infrastructure environments. Its services are typically evaluated alongside other colocation and carrier-neutral data center providers, with selection criteria that include facility location, connectivity density, power availability, service-level constructs, and the ability to support hybrid and multi-cloud architectures. For directory and taxonomy purposes, Co-Location can be classified under colocation services, data center infrastructure, and network connectivity services (network infrastructure, managed infrastructure services).
Our description of Co-Location. Updated December 2025.
