Status: Operational | Location: 240 N 5th Street, Suite 210, Columbus, Ohio 43215, USA
Cogent Communications' downtown Columbus facility operates as a vital local network point-of-presence and highly secure retail colocation node within the competitive Ohio digital infrastructure market. Spanning a functional footprint of approximately 5,400 square feet, this specialized utility space is architecturally optimized to deliver high-capacity Ethernet transport, secure corporate transit, and scalable rack space configurations directly to small and medium enterprises, regional carriers, and local digital content providers. The interior footprint features an anti-static raised floor configuration that allows all network routing paths, diverse data cabling runs, and main copper or fiber power distributions to be run cleanly beneath the surface. This structural layout provides optimal tenant space flexibility, straightforward post-deployment maintenance access, and rapid asset configuration scaling. Operating within a broader multi-tenant commercial structure, the data center relies on highly secure physical entry partitions to isolate the mission-critical hardware bays. This layout provides enterprise tenants with full on-net access to Cogent's expansive global Tier-1 all-optical IP internet backbone. By utilizing pre-configured 39U server cabinets with customized utility access corridors, this local data hub bridges localized enterprise infrastructure directly with vast transcontinental networks, avoiding complex transit hops and ensuring high-availability network transport across the Midwest.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Project Name | Cogent Columbus: 0.1MW 5th Street Colocation Facility |
| Location | 240 N 5th Street, Suite 210, Columbus, Ohio 43215, USA |
| Status | Operational |
| Project Type | Retail Colocation & Point-of-Presence (PoP) Network Node |
| Commissioning | 🔒 Subscriber Intelligence |
| Total IT Load | 🔒 Subscriber Intelligence |
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| Header | Details |
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| City Name | Columbus |
| Population | Approximately 900,000 (2023 estimate) |
| Urban Agglomeration | Around 2.1 million (metro area) |
| Economic Profile | 🔒 Detailed city intelligence available to subscribers |
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