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What exactly is a cross-connect in a colocation environment?
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What exactly is a cross-connect in a colocation environment?

A cross-connect is a physical cable, typically fibre or copper, that directly links two customer cabinets or a customer cabinet to a carrier in the same colocation facility, bypassing the public internet entirely. It is the foundational primitive for interconnection inside a data center. Every cloud on-ramp, carrier connection, and partner link inside a facility ultimately depends on a cross-connect of some kind.

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