Colocation allows a company to avoid the major expenses associated with developing and maintaining areas of their business that fall outside their core competency. The typical access or content providers are concentrating on their core businesses, and have neither the ability nor the desire to spend the capital to develop the infrastructure to provide Class ”A”, telco grade facilities with fire protection, D.C. clean power with backup, redundant connections, peering arrangements, 24x7 technical management procedures, and more.