co-location

Together in space

Co-location is the placement of things in the same location.

In computing and telecommunications, it refers to housing privately owned servers or equipment in a shared data center facility: We moved our servers to a co-location facility for better uptime.

The term also describes businesses or services that share physical space for convenience or synergy.

Also spelled colocation.

networking

peering

Studying something with concentration

bandwidth · latency · fiber · router · switch · backbone · ISP · handoff · traffic · Ethernet

datacenter

server

One who attends tables

  • rackFrame for holding items
  • hostingReceiving guests socially
  • cageBarred confinement structure

facility · uptime · redundancy · cooling · power · backup · hardware · virtualization · storage · UPS

coworking

hub

Central connection point

communal · office · startup · membership · amenities

linguistics

co-occurrence

Joint presence in context

idiom · concordance · frequency · pattern

spatial

proximity

Nearness in space

nearness · juxtaposition · contiguity · neighboring · placement · siting · grouping · arrangement · positioning · density

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Opposites
spatial arrangement

co-locationseparation

State of being apart

distribution · scattering · displacement · dislocation · segregation

system architecture

co-locationdistributed

Divided and given out

edge computing · distribution · decentralized · decentralization

organizational proximity

co-locationremote work

Employment from afar

distributed team · remote · telecommuting · virtual teams · remote collaboration

Family

co-locate, collocate, collocation, collocated, collocating, locate, located, locating, location

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