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==Products and services==
Switch and Data is a North American provider of network-neutral data centers and Internet exchanges. In addition, the company offers services such as colocation, interconnection and remote technical support. The companies’ data centers provide the power, [[interconnectivity]], security, redundancy, [[Air conditioning|cooling]] and site technical support to house and safeguard its customers’ network and computing equipment.

Switch and Data is a network-neutral provider which means that customers can choose to [[interconnect]] with multiple competing carriers across its national footprint of densely interconnected data centers. Customers can exchange traffic and [[Intellectual property|IP]] content through direct connections with each other, or through many-to-many [[peering]] connections on Switch and Data's PAIX Internet exchange. Switch and Data's customers have provisioned approximately 21,100 cross-connects between each other in the company's 34 sites.<ref name="annualreport" />