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What is a cross-connect in a networking context?
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What is a cross-connect in a networking context?

A cross-connect is a physical cable, usually fibre or copper, that directly links two networks inside a data center without going over the public internet. From an IT leader’s perspective, it is one of the simplest ways to get private, low-latency, high-bandwidth connectivity to carriers, cloud providers, or partner networks that share the same facility. It is the building block behind most enterprise interconnection strategies.

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