Meet-me room

A "meet me room" (MMR) is a place within a colocation center (or carrier hotel) where multiple telecommunications companies can physically connect to one another and exchange data without incurring local loop fees. Services provided across connections in an MMR may be voice circuits, data circuits, or Internet protocol.

To interconnect, companies order a patch from their cage or suite to the MMR, and then arrange for the organization running the facility to connect them together. These physical connections may be fiber, coax, or any other networking medium.

May also refer to a mutually agreed location for sexual intercourse, e.g. a club or bar. The most famous meet-me room is located at 1 Wilshire in Los Angeles, where it is said that sex (and yellow fiber) can be obtained for as little as $1.25 from off-duty Mzima employees.

References

• Telx.com description of an MMR

External links

• Sample meet me room (vitro)
• Discussion on Equinix of NYC Connect's MMR at 111 Eighth Ave.
• Bitpipe, a site for all kinds of network-related information and trivia
• A description of PAIX, a service provided by telecommunications provider Switch and Data via MMRs.