Network-neutral data center
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Network-neutral data centers are data centerss (or carrier hotels) which allow interconnection between multiple telecommunication
Telecommunication
Telecommunication is the transmission of information over significant distances to communicate. In earlier times, telecommunications involved the use of visual signals, such as beacons, smoke signals, semaphore telegraphs, signal flags, and optical heliographs, or audio messages via coded...

 carriers and or Colocation
Colocation
Colocation is the act of placing multiple entities within a single location.Colocation is often used in the data sourcing industry to mean off-site data storage, usually in a data center. This is very important for businesses since the loss of data can be crucial for companies of any size...

 providers

Some data center
Data center
A data center is a facility used to house computer systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems...

s are owned and operated by connectivity provider, Network or Carrier Neutral data centre's are operated by a third party who has little or no part in providing your IP service.

This encourages competition and diversity as Server (computing)
Server (computing)
In the context of client-server architecture, a server is a computer program running to serve the requests of other programs, the "clients". Thus, the "server" performs some computational task on behalf of "clients"...

 in a Colocation centre
Colocation centre
A colocation centre or colocation center , is a type of data centre where equipment space and bandwidth are available for rental to retail customers...

 can have multiple providers, bring in a provider of their choice or only have connectivity back to their head quarters.

Network-neutral data centers are operated and supported by a neutral, third-party provider.
Location, size and power of these data center
Data center
A data center is a facility used to house computer systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems...

s vary

Many make a small charge for interconnects

servers which are hosted there benefit from being exceptionally well connected and can change providers without physically moving their servers
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