What's a Meet Me Room and Does Your Data Center Need One? (SlideShare)

What's a Meet Me Room and Does Your Data Center Need One?

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A Meet Me Room or MMR is a physical location where such connections can be organized, made, and managed


Why Would You Want a Meet Me Room in Your Data Center?


The main reasons can be summed up as the ‘3Cs’ of control, cost, and choice:


• Control. Making an MMR an integral part of your data center allows you to ensure the same security and business continuity as for the rest of your facility


• Cost. A Meet Me Room can distribute traffic at a lower cost by avoiding certain local loop communications fees


• Choice. Smart management of an MMR includes offering the right choices to users


Good MMR Management is a Must


While you may be convinced of the necessity of having this capability within your data center,


poor management of an MMR can trip you up in more ways than one:


• Connectivity showstoppers. If prospective customers for colocation facilities cannot get connectivity to the carrier of their choice, they may never sign up for service


• Poor security. Sometimes an unjustified assumption is made that physical security and backup in the rest of the data center automatically carries through to the MMR


• Risky location. Connectivity to the outside world may be facilitated by locating the MMR just inside an external wall


• Communication latency. As data centers get bigger, links get longer


Start as You Mean to Go On


MMR performance can be a boon to your data center,


but MMR anarchy is something you do not need


Random cross-connections between carriers and tenants must be avoided


Connection standards that include interconnection methods, cable counts, color codes, and labeling should be applied in all cases


You may be able to get telecom companies to buy into such standards by involving them early on in the design of your Meet Me Room


How much use do you make of your MMR as a selling point for your colocation services?


Tell us about how you like to position it with a few words in the space for comments underneath


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What's a Meet Me Room and Does Your Data Center Need One? (SlideShare)

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