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</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For other uses, see <a href="Colocation_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Colocation (disambiguation)">Colocation (disambiguation)</a>.</div>

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<p><b>Colocation</b> (or <b>co-location</b>) is the act of placing multiple (sometimes related) entities within a single location.

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<ul><li>In an organization, it refers to placing related roles or groups in a single room, building or campus.</li>

<li>In business, it refers to the practice of locating multiple similar businesses in the same facility.</li>

<li>In trading, it often refers to placing multiple data centers in proximity to trading centers <sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>

<li>In telecommunications, primarily wireless telecommunications facilities such as mobile wireless (cell sites) and radio broadcasting, it refers to the practice of locating multiple wireless broadcast facilities/providers within the same facility. Many jurisdictions now mandate the colocation of mobile wireless carriers within a single facility to avoid the proliferation of wireless communication towers.</li></ul>

<ul><li>In the <a href="Fast_food_restaurant" class="mw-redirect" title="Fast food restaurant">fast food restaurant</a> industry, one primary use of this concept is <a href="Yum!_Brands" title="Yum! Brands">Yum! Brands</a> with its <a href="KFC" title="KFC">KFC</a>, <a href="Taco_Bell" title="Taco Bell">Taco Bell</a>, and <a href="Pizza_Hut" title="Pizza Hut">Pizza Hut</a> menus appearing in the same restaurant. All of the <a href="WingStreet" class="mw-redirect" title="WingStreet">WingStreet</a> chain locations are co-located with <a href="Pizza_Hut" title="Pizza Hut">Pizza Hut</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>

<li>In the retail sector, <a href="Sears_Holdings" title="Sears Holdings">Sears Holdings</a> often operates its large-format <a href="Sears" title="Sears">Sears</a> stores with an income tax services office, an optical shop, and other independent operations. <a href="Walmart" title="Walmart">Walmart</a> is also known for this, in addition to including fast-food restaurants such as <a href="McDonald's" title="McDonald's">McDonald's</a>, <a href="Subway_(restaurant)" title="Subway (restaurant)">Subway</a> or <a href="Dunkin'_Donuts" title="Dunkin' Donuts">Dunkin' Donuts</a> within its stores. <a href="Target_Corporation" title="Target Corporation">Target</a> often includes <a href="Starbucks" title="Starbucks">Starbucks</a> and Pizza Hut in its stores.</li>

<li>In the airline industry, colocation commonly occurs at <a href="Airports" class="mw-redirect" title="Airports">airports</a>. Airline alliances will be assigned or build a fortress out of certain terminals or dominant carrier-specific terminals; <a href="Star_Alliance" title="Star Alliance">Star Alliance</a> in particular makes colocation in a single terminal alliance policy (termed "Move Under One Roof"). An example would be at Tokyo's <a href="Narita_Airport" class="mw-redirect" title="Narita Airport">Narita Airport</a>, where local carrier <a href="All_Nippon_Airways" title="All Nippon Airways">All Nippon Airways</a>, a Star Alliance member, and its partners operate in one terminal to facilitate partner connections and product offerings, even offering combined check-in, member lounges, and ground services.</li></ul>

<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="Colocation_centre" title="Colocation centre">Colocation centre</a></div>

<p>Colocation is often used in the data sourcing industry to mean off-site data storage, usually in a <a href="Data_center" title="Data center">data center</a>. This is very important for businesses since the loss of data can be crucial for companies of any size, up to and including disciplinary action for employees or loss of their jobs.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> An unexpected loss in data can result from fires, earthquakes, floods, or any sort of natural disaster.

</p><p>Data colocation technology began to take hold in the telecommunications industry. Colocation enables multiple customers to access network, server, and data storage space, connecting them to a variety of service providers.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.advancedtrading.com/ivyschmerken/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=YAMNAXILVBKFVQE1GHOSKH4ATMY32JVN?articleID=220300263&pgno=2">High-Frequency Trading Shops Play the Colocation Game</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070125014819/http://www.advancedtrading.com/ivyschmerken/showArticle.jhtml">Archived</a> 25 January 2007 at the <a href="Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, <i>Advanced Trading</i>, Ivy Schmerken.</span>

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</style><cite id="CITEREFGriffin2006" class="citation book cs1">Griffin, Ricky W. (2006). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=LeywcIPd7ScC&q=Yum%21+brands+and+colocation+of+its+restaurant&pg=PA163"><i>Student Achievement Series: Principles of Management</i></a>. Cengage Learning. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>0618730788</bdi>.</cite></span>

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<li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cio.com/article/616422/Fear_of_Data_Loss_Social_Media_Security_Risks_Rising">Fear of Data Loss, Social Media Security Risks Rising</a>, <i>CIO Magazine</i>, Joan Goodchild, 20 September 2010.</span>

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<li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140116134017/http://resources.cio.com/ccd/assets/18525/detail">Colocation: The Logical Home for the Cloud</a>, <i><a href="Computerworld" title="Computerworld">Computerworld</a></i>, Cyrus One.</span>

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<div class="side-box-text plainlist">Look up <i><b><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/colocation" class="extiw external" title="wiktionary:colocation">colocation</a></b></i> in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.</div></div>

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