Partial racks to cages
Take a few rack units, a full cabinet, or a multi-cabinet cage. Growth-path space can be reserved so your footprint stays contiguous instead of scattered across the floor.
What you get
A cabinet is only as good as what is behind it.
Space and power are the easy part. What makes colocation useful is the network you can reach from it and the people who will touch your gear at three in the morning.
A+B power
Diverse A and B feeds with metered circuits, sized to your real draw. Tell us your load and redundancy requirement and we will engineer the circuits around it.
Cross connects
Copper and single-mode fiber cross connects to carriers, peers and your own equipment elsewhere in the facility. Carrier-neutral by design.
Physical security
Controlled facility access, locked cabinets and access procedures for your staff and vendors. Access lists are yours to manage.
Remote hands
Reboots, media swaps, cable moves, console sessions and shipment receipt. Give us the runbook and we will follow it exactly.
Environmental basics
Conditioned power, cooling and monitoring so your equipment lives in the conditions its warranty assumes.
Where we are
Five colocation facilities, two states.
Colocation is available in every 123NET data center — all three Southfield sites plus their Grand Rapids facility in Byron Center — and at NOCIX in North Kansas City. Each card lists the Internet exchanges reachable from that building.
DC1 — Detroit Data Center
24700 Northwestern HwySouthfield, MI 48075
Detroit metro · Carrier-neutral
Exchanges on-net
DET-IXGRR-IXKCIX
Available here
Colocation · IP Transit · Point-to-Point Layer 2
DC2 — Southfield NW
24275 Northwestern HwySouthfield, MI 48075
Detroit metro · Carrier-neutral
Exchanges on-net
DET-IXGRR-IXKCIX
Available here
Colocation · IP Transit · Point-to-Point Layer 2
DC3 — Southfield W
24245 Northwestern HwySouthfield, MI 48075
Detroit metro · Carrier-neutral
Exchanges on-net
DET-IXGRR-IXKCIX
Available here
Colocation · IP Transit · Point-to-Point Layer 2
DC4 — Grand Rapids
400 76th St SWByron Center, MI 49315
Grand Rapids metro · Carrier-neutral
Exchanges on-net
DET-IXGRR-IX
Available here
Colocation · IP Transit · Point-to-Point Layer 2
1530 Swift
1530 Swift StNorth Kansas City, MO 64116
Kansas City metro · Carrier-neutral
Exchanges on-net
KCIXSIXMICEHOUIXSpringIXSTLIX
Available here
Colocation · IP Transit · Point-to-Point Layer 2
Every one of these is a carrier-neutral building, so a cross connect reaches whichever provider you want — and AS7201 is on-net in all five, which means turning up BGP transit alongside your cabinet is a cross connect, not a construction project.
The exchanges listed on each card are the ones reachable from that building. Which of them AS7201 peers at is a separate list — see the peering policy.
Connectivity
AS7201 is on-net where your cabinet is.
Colocation at Network Edge is not a dead-end rack. From the same footprint you can turn up BGP transit on AS7201, run a transparent Layer 2 circuit to another site, or cross connect to a third-party carrier of your choosing.
Because we operate the network rather than reselling it, the conversation about capacity, routing policy and interconnection is with the same people who rack your equipment.
From your cabinet you can reach
- BGP IP transit on AS7201 — full table, partial or default
- IPv4 and IPv6 dual-stack connectivity
- Point-to-point Layer 2 to your other sites
- The Internet exchanges on-net in that building
- Cross connects to other carriers in the building
- Private network-to-network interconnection
Operations
Who is on the other end of the ticket.
Network engineers, not scripts
Support escalates to people who can read a BGP table and a traceroute, because those are the same people who built the network.
Change work planned with you
Maintenance windows, cross connect work and power changes are coordinated in advance rather than announced afterwards.
Room to grow
Bandwidth, ports and space can scale as your platform does. Tell us your twelve-month trajectory and we will design for it.
Facility specifics vary by market. Cabinet dimensions, power configurations, cross connect types and available carriers differ between locations — tell us where you need space and we will send the exact specification for that facility.
Questions
Frequently asked
Which data centers is Network Edge in?
All four 123NET data centers — DC1, DC2 and DC3 in Southfield, Michigan, and DC4 in Byron Center for the Grand Rapids market — plus NOCIX at 1530 Swift in North Kansas City, Missouri. AS7201 is on-net in every one of them.
What footprint sizes can I take?
From a partial cabinet up to full cabinets and multi-cabinet cages. If you are growing, tell us the trajectory and we will reserve adjacent space rather than scattering your footprint.
Is transit included with colocation?
Colocation and IP transit are quoted separately so you only pay for what you use, but AS7201 is on-net in our colocation footprint — a cross connect is all it takes to turn up BGP.
Can I bring my own carrier?
Yes. We will arrange cross connects to other providers in the facility. Carrier neutrality is the point of colocation; we are not going to lock your rack to our transit.
Do you offer remote hands?
Yes. Reboots, media swaps, cabling changes, console access and shipping receipt are all available. Tell us the runbook and we will follow it.
Can colocation connect back to my other sites?
That is what our point-to-point Layer 2 service is for — a transparent Ethernet circuit between your cabinet and another site, data center or exchange point.