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Who is Open Access Data Centres?
Open Access Data Centres is a specialist colocation and interconnection provider offering carrier-neutral data centre facilities for enterprises, cloud providers, and network operators.
- Carrier-neutral colocation facilities with power, cooling, and physical security controls.
- Interconnection services enabling access to multiple carriers, ISPs, and cloud on-ramps.
- Data centre infrastructure services supporting enterprise, content, and telecom workloads.
- Services aligned to network-intensive use cases such as cloud connectivity and content delivery.
- Support for hybrid IT architectures integrating on-premises (on-prem), colocation, and public cloud environments.
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Open Access Data Centres operates carrier-neutral colocation facilities that provide controlled environments for housing customer-owned IT and network equipment. The company focuses on enterprises, service providers, and content or telecom operators that require resilient power, cooling, and connectivity without operating their own data centre buildings. Customers typically deploy racks, cages, or suites within shared facilities and connect to multiple network and cloud providers from a single location.
The organisation’s core offer falls within the colocation and interconnection category, where facilities are designed with redundant power feeds, Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) systems, backup generators, and structured cabling to support continuous operations. Physical security measures generally include controlled access, surveillance, and defined visitor procedures. These capabilities target workloads such as core business applications, content distribution platforms, network aggregation points, and edge or metro connectivity hubs.
From an enterprise architecture perspective, Open Access Data Centres supports hybrid IT and multi-cloud models. Organisations can place core or latency-sensitive systems in the colocation site while establishing private or public connectivity to cloud platforms and external networks. This pattern aligns with common reference architectures in which colocation acts as a neutral hub for Wide Area Network (WAN) aggregation, cloud on-ramps, and inter-partner connectivity, reducing the need for point-to-point links from on-prem locations.
The company’s interconnection services System Integration Testing (SIT) within the broader connectivity and network services category. Customers typically use carrier-neutral sites to reach multiple telecom carriers, Internet Service Providers (ISP), and sometimes cloud providers through cross-connects, meet-me rooms, or similar constructs. This approach allows enterprises and operators to optimise network paths, diversify providers for resilience, and manage bandwidth for applications such as voice, video, collaboration, and content delivery.
In comparison to enterprise-owned data centres, Open Access Data Centres’ model reduces the need for upfront investment in buildings and core facility infrastructure. Instead, customers procure space, power, and connectivity as services under contractual Service Level Agreements (SLAs). In relation to public cloud, colocation sits in a different category: customers retain control over hardware, operating systems, and network design while using the facility as a secure and connected location rather than a managed compute platform.
Within an enterprise technology directory, Open Access Data Centres fits under categories such as colocation services, carrier-neutral interconnection, data centre infrastructure, and hybrid cloud connectivity enablement. Its offerings are typically used by technical teams responsible for network architecture, cloud strategy, and infrastructure operations that require predictable environment control, carrier choice, and geographic placement of critical systems.
Our description of Open Access Data Centres. Updated December 2025.
