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INTERCONNECTION

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CORESITE MARKETPLACE

Take advantage of our diverse and ever-growing customer ecosystem to quickly identify and connect to IT services available in and across our 11 edge markets.

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CORESITE PARTNER PROGRAM

An entire ecosystem dedicated to solving customers’ most pressing IT challenges.

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Discover why Channel Partners prefer to partner with CoreSite.

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Case studies, videos, spec sheets and data center industry insights.

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KNOWLEDGE BASE

Did you know that every time you use your smart phone, you’re connecting to a data center? Learn about the critical, behind-the-scenes role data centers play in our daily lives.

 

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PRODUCTS & SERVICES

Data Center Interconnect

Your Competitive Edge in the Digital Economy

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OVERVIEW

Data Center Interconnection

Business success hinges on connectivity to clouds, your digital ecosystem and workloads. Interconnection, private data exchange between data centers, is a catalyst for collaboration, innovation and infrastructure flexibility.

CoreSite Interconnection Services put you in control of data, workloads, network management and multi-cloud deployments while ensuring uptime and security. Our carrier-neutral data centers are hubs for interconnection to modern workloads, public and private clouds, and business partners. It all adds up to reduced total cost of operations and a future-ready enterprise.

Enterprises of all sizes and across all industries can benefit from the elevated infrastructure performance, agility and security needed to thrive in a digital-first world.

 

Infrastructure Supporting Your Business Operations, Financial and Growth Goals

Enable high flexibility, extended market reach and application access over private networks.

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REDUCE LATENCY
Enhance application performance and user experience with low-latency connectivity solutions. CoreSite’s Open Cloud Exchange automates network provisioning and facilitates cloud-to-cloud data exchange, ensuring data is collected, routed and processed at lightning speed. Deploy workloads closer to end users to meet latency requirements with just a few clicks.
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SCALE AS YOU GROW
Easily scale your digital infrastructure to meet evolving business needs. CoreSite’s inter-site connectivity empowers your enterprise with dynamic scalability, enabling you to expand seamlessly regionally or nationally. Run services over “your” network with predictable operational costs and connect to an ecosystem of partners to unlock new growth opportunities in key markets.
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INCREASE COST-EFFICIENCY
Optimize your IT investments with CoreSite’s cost-efficient interconnection solutions. Virtualization and cloud networking allow you to distribute workloads and assets where they deliver the highest ROI. Streamlined interconnection simplifies workflows, reduces overhead and increases financial flexibility—all while maintaining a high-performance environment.
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ENSURE RELIABILITY AND REDUNDANCY
Maximize business continuity with CoreSite’s reliable and redundant data center infrastructure. Leveraging colocation cross connects, you can achieve seamless interoperability between networks, clouds and partners. Fiber optic cabling offers the “gold standard” for secure and low-latency data transfers, minimizing risks and downtime to keep your operations running smoothly.

Data Center Interconnection Enabling High-Performance IT

Customize your colocation deployment with the building blocks of IT modernization.
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DIRECT/PRIVATE INTERCONNECTS Bypass the public internet with CoreSite interconnection for secure, direct data exchange across your network, private clouds, and digital supply chain. Connect to public clouds via native onramps for the fastest, most reliable access.Learn More
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CARRIER-NEUTRAL DATA CENTERS Carrier-neutral facilities provide access to multiple networks, plus CoreSite’s Any2Exchange® for Internet Peering, enabling seamless interconnection across providers.Learn More
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CROSS CONNECTS Physical connection between clients in the data center and cloud providers.Learn More
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BLENDED IP The internet connectivity every business needs, with access to ISPs and local internet exchanges.Learn More
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INTER-SITE CONNECTIVITY High-speed wide area network (WAN) links within the data center (and other data centers) facilitating rapid market expansion and application distribution.Learn More
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INTERCONNECT GATEWAY

A platform providing fully managed, secure, high-bandwidth direct connectivity to the top internet exchanges and the Any2Exchange for Internet Peering.

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MAXIMIZE VALUE OF CLOUD AND NETWORK CONNECTIVITY INVESTMENTS

Integrate technologies powering your digital ecosystems and digital native supply chain.
CORESITE SECURITY

Security in Data Center Interconnection

At CoreSite, we implement advanced physical security protocols and standards like SOC 2 and ISO 27001 to safeguard your mission-critical data. Our private interconnections and continuous threat monitoring help ensure your sensitive information remains protected within our facilities and networks. You can add cybersecurity to your deployment through the CoreSite Marketplace, home to a rich ecosystem of IT services providers. Learn More
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PEERING EXCHANGES

Build a More Efficient Network Architecture

Peering exchanges are key to improved application performance, optimized broadband usage, winning customer experiences and advancing market expansion. We partner with top U.S. and international internet exchanges, using stable, fast and cost-effective peering fabrics to connect you with users around the globe. And, we own and operate the Any2Exchange for Internet peering, which includes peering exchanges located on both coasts as well as in the Midwest and the South. Learn More
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CUSTOMER STORY

Delivering Premier Telecommunications and Internet Services to Large Enterprises and Government Entities

“CoreSite checks all the boxes for us. Its nationwide presence in key areas helped us expand to the West Coast, and its nimble, flexible approach to data center services helped us build a robust solution to meet our customers’ needs into the future.”

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DATA CENTER INTERCONNECTION

Frequently Asked Questions

WHAT IS INTERCONNECTION? Interconnection services are the connections between companies in colocation data centers that enable the exchange of data, through both physical and virtual networking technologies.
WHAT ARE THE EMERGING TRENDS AND TECHNOLOGIES IN INTERCONNECTION? Emerging technologies like SD-WAN, edge computing, 5G and AI are revolutionizing data center interconnection with faster, smarter and more flexible solutions. CoreSite delivers the infrastructure businesses need to stay ahead in this evolving digital landscape.
WHAT IS PEERING? Peering is a process in which two independent carrier networks (peers) connect and exchange data. It allows direct hand-off of traffic without incurring extra transport costs for the transaction.
HOW DO YOU CHOOSE THE RIGHT DATA CENTER INTERCONNECTION SOLUTION? Does your company’s infrastructure effectively support your business operations, financial and growth goals? This guide can help you evaluate data center providers and ensure that the facilities, services and interconnection capabilities they offer position your company as a future-ready digital business.
WHAT IS INTER-SITE INTERCONNECTION? Data center interconnects link two or more data centers, enabling resource sharing and access to all the providers and business partners located in each data center. An interconnect utilizes a high-speed WAN link, including MPLS, Ethernet and/or VPLS to unite the data centers in a secure meet-me room.
WHAT IS DARK FIBER? Dark fiber is unused fiber optic cable in a colocation data center that an enterprise can “light” with their own networking equipment. Cross connects can be made using dark fiber or “lit” fiber.