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Customer-Managed Pre-Cabling

Customer-managed pre-cabling options enable connections from a customer cage to a Meet-Me Room (MMR) with a shared or private panel, respectively.

Extended Demarcation​

Extended Demarcation supports bulk pre-cabling to the space outside a customer’s colocation deployments to facilitate cross connects. Extended Demarcations are available for custom delivery based on approval.

Note: Extended Demarcations are available in IBX data centers opened as of 2020 in all regions. Extended Demarcations are not available in IBX data centers opened before 2020 in the EMEA region.

Intra-Facility Cabling​

Intra-Facility Cabling enables you to connect to another customer within an Equinix IBX when an MMR architecture is used. This type of architecture requires an intra-facility cable (IFC) to complete the cross connect.

There are two components within the IBX data centers with MMR architecture:

  • IFC – First segment of cable that runs from the patch panel in your cage or cabinet to the MMR
  • Cross Connects – Second segment that completes the cross connect where the IFCs are patched in the MMR

Note: Intra-Facility Cabling is only available in limited IBX data centers in the AMER and EMEA regions.

Private Patch Panel​

Private Patch Panel (PPP) enables a customer to connect to another customer within a certain Equinix IBX when an MMR architecture is used. This type of architecture requires PPP to complete the cross connect.

Within IBX data centers with MMR architecture, there are two components:

  • PPP – First segment of cable that runs from the patch panel in the customer’s cage or cabinet to the MMR
  • Cross Connects – Second segment that completes the cross connect where the PPP is patched in the MMR

Note: PPPs are only available in select IBX data centers in the APAC and EMEA regions.