Hardware firewall, a primer
Individual, locked cabinets and cages give customers control over physical access. Colocation hosting centers provide a high level of around the clock physical security for company computer network equipment; in addition to state of the art fire protection services, many facilities require employee escorts for their customers to and from their alloted space and utilize video surveillance, card access and fingerprint and voice recognition systems. In addition, the multiple fiber optic cable bundles that typically service colocation hosting facilities provide enough duplication to maintain communications should one of the bundles become damaged. Colocation hosting has become especially attractive to major corporations that use colocation for offsite data backup, service continuity in the event of a network crash, and general protection in the event of a disaster, as data centers are constructed with materials strong enough to withstand natural disasters. Colocation hosting services also provide substantial financial benefits to its customers, in addition to the aforementioned protection against service interruption and general overall security for computer systems.