Even today, many companies keep their critical infrastructure at their headquarters. This strategy entails incurring very high costs. The lack of competition drives up the price of services, and the best technical solution is not always chosen. Additionally, activating a service can involve high costs and long provisioning times, especially if fiber optic deployment or civil works are required.
The ideal situation for IT managers is to have the main providers of fiber optics, internet services, or cloud solutions within their own facilities. Implementations become simpler, it is easier to find the solution that best fits the objective, and service delivery is faster and more cost-effective.
Having your infrastructure within a Data Center provides all these advantages: access to all the possibilities of the IT world at the most competitive price and with the highest quality connection.
Placing your critical infrastructure in a Data Center offers clear and tangible advantages in terms of security and service availability. Furthermore, besides offering your own services to other providers, you can choose from a wide range of telecommunications, cloud, and system services. How does a Data Center provide all these services? Thanks to the meet-me rooms.
What is a Meet-Me Room?
A meet-me room (MMR) is a space—or several, if redundancy is provided—where the structured cabling of all clients and providers hosted in the data center is concentrated. This setup allows for the physical interconnection of cabling between clients and providers.
The tasks of interconnection, supervision, and maintenance are performed by the data center’s staff on a 24/7 schedule.
What are the advantages of a Meet-Me Room?
- Access to Interconnection with All Companies Hosted in the Data Center
- All companies are clients, but they can also become providers.
- It gives you access to a competitive market and the opportunity to sell your services.
- Direct Interconnection and Best Service Availability
- The probability of failure is much lower than with a metropolitan or national connection. In those cases, there are multiple intermediate devices and kilometers of fiber susceptible to issues.
- IT Service Providers’ Investments in Data Centers
- IT service providers make their largest investments in equipment and personnel at service aggregation points like data centers.
- Therefore, services delivered in a data center are more reliable and faster. Additionally, in the event of an incident, they are given higher priority due to the client’s volume and profile and the impact on their SLAs.
- Access to Public Cloud Platforms Like Amazon or Azure
- These platforms are already deploying their infrastructure in data centers worldwide to achieve greater access speed and redundancy.
- Meet-me rooms are the best access point to these public platforms and private platforms, facilitating the design of private, public, or hybrid cloud solutions.
Meet-Me Rooms at Adam data centers
All our data centers have meet-me rooms to provide agile, secure, and efficient connections. They allow each of our clients to freely and neutrally choose the best connectivity or service option.
Additionally, we have two MMRs located in strategic spaces to offer redundancy to clients and allow fiber optic providers to use rings with dual routes.
This article has been written by
Alfonso Masana
Networking and Datacenter infrastructure