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collocation Definition

col·lo·ca·tion (käl′ə kā′s̸hən)

noun

a collocating or being collocated; specif., an arrangement, as of words in a sentence

Etymology: L collocatio

Collocation Hacker Definition
One of the most important yet misunderstood services in the telecommunications industry. It combines elements of civil engineering, electrical engineering, facility management, real estate, and standard bits and bytes. By definition, collocation is the leasing of available space and power within a facility in order to operate telecommunications equipment. A network without collocation facilities—rack counts, square footage, amps, and ­conduits—is like a car without seats: Although the engine is in place, the car is not fully functional. Carriers back in the 1980s needed and present-day carriers continue to need somewhere to house their equipment so that they can use and manipulate the bandwidth being purchased.

Before American Telephone & Telegraph’s breakup in 1984, the Bell companies rarely considered carrier requests to collocate equipment. Seeing a competitive advantage in the marketplace, however, IXCs (long-haul carriers) and CAPs (local carriers) began leasing space for carrier equipment, giving rise to a new industry product: collocation or collocation facilities.

Today, collocation is not usually offered as a stand-alone product but is a value-added component often made available to carriers purchasing capacity on the network. In short, collocation helps to facilitate the buying and utilization of a carrier’s bandwidth by clients. The main service that collocations provide is up time by providing redundant power supplies with backup generators and redundant links to the Internet. In the end, the client gains by having reduced bandwidth service costs.

See Also: Bit and Bit Challenges; Bytes; Internet, Telecom.

Payne, T. Collocation: Never Mind the Spelling, It’s How It’s Delivered. [Online, September 2001.] Phone Plus Magazine Website. http://www.phoneplusmag.com/ articles/191feat4.html.
collocation Telecom Definition
  1. A physical arrangement in which things are placed close together.
  2. In telecommunications, referring to the placement of the equipment of a competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) or Internet service provider (ISP) in the incumbent LEC's (ILEC's) central office (CO). A collocation arrangement generally requires that the ILEC provide a separately area, such as a cage, for the CLEC or ISP to secure its termination equipment, switches, routers, and other equipment. See also CLEC, CO, ILEC, and ISP.
collocation Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • find: Find collocations To find collocations of a word, you first make a search for that word and then use the collocation function.
  • use: They practice using the collocations by telling a partner whether the sentences are true or false for them.
  • select: It really will improve your ability to select the right collocation, I promise!
  • give: Students are given incomplete collocations and semi-fixed expressions that appeared in the texts and try to complete them from memory.
  • include: Perhaps the standard might usefully make explicit reference to careful choice of vocabulary and to English usage, including conventional collocations.

Adjective modifier

  • common: You will need to be able to identify common collocations, that is words that go together.
  • typical: How representative or typical such collocations are of actual language in use can now be tested against corpus evidence.
  • lexical: This seminar starts from a purely quantitative concept of lexical collocation.
  • significant: What constitutes significant collocation, however, can only be answered statistically.
  • special: Special collocations: peregrine falcon: see sense 1 above. peregrine praetor Rom.
  • such: How representative or typical such collocations are of actual language in use can now be tested against corpus evidence.

Modifies a noun

  • command: Selecting the Collocation command from the Query menu opens the Collocation dialog box.
  • method: Such estimates have application in the numerical analysis of solving partial differential equations using radial basis function collocation methods.
  • scheme: Error indicators are based on a collocation scheme using uniform norms that compare values of field variables at two successive mesh iterations.
  • exercise: Come back each weekday for a new phrasal verb, word formation or collocation exercise.
  • function: Open the collocation function by clicking on the Collocations icon or by choosing [ Collocation ] from the [ Query ] menu.

Noun used with modifier

  • post: I can only comment, due to my recent arrival, on the paper flow system post collocation.

Preposition: of

  • word: We can check that the uses and collocations of words we are teaching are the most frequent, up to date and correct.

Preposition: with

  • level: Related Think - Vocabulary - Collocation with advanced levels 1 Comment Marianna Pascal, Malaysia Your ideas on collocation were absolutely fascinating.
  • verb: In collocations with verbs introducing what is in effect an object or secondary object.

Browse dictionary entries near collocation

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