If You Could See the Light in an MMR
The amount of data flowing through a typical Meet-Me Room (MMR) at a carrier hotel is extremely large and highly variable, making it difficult to give a single “bytes per second” number.
Here’s why and what you can consider instead:
Massive Interconnection Point: An MMR is where hundreds of major telecommunications carriers, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), content delivery networks (CDNs), and cloud providers physically connect their networks. It is a key gateway to the internet backbone.
Examples of Major MMR Facilities: In the largest carrier hotels in major metro areas (like 60 Hudson Street in NYC or One Wilshire in LA), the potential aggregate bandwidth could reach into the terabits per second (Tbps) range.
1 Tbps=1,000 Gbps=1,000,000 Mbps
In bytes per second: 1 Tbps≈125 Gigabytes per second (GB/s)
In summary, a “typical” MMR for a major carrier hotel handles traffic that is measured in:
Tens or hundreds of Gigabits per second (Gbps) at a minimum.
Likely several Terabits per second (Tbps) of aggregate potential or actual traffic in the largest, busiest facilities.
The actual instantaneous data flow (utilization) will fluctuate, but the capacity installed by the tenants is in the colossal range.
