How does Data Center serve the Campus?
before going deep first, understand what is a data center?
What is a Data Center?
A data center is a repository that houses computing facilities like servers, routers, switches, and firewalls, as well as supporting components like backup equipment, fire suppression facilities, and air conditioning. A data center may be complex (dedicated building) or simple (an area or room that houses only a few servers). Additionally, a data center may be private or shared.
A data center can be classified into three categories as following:
- Networking: Interconnections between data center components and to the outside world, including routers, switches, application delivery controllers, and more
- Compute: The memory and processing power to run the applications, generally provided by high-end servers
- Storage: Important enterprise data is generally housed in a data center, on media ranging from tape to solid-state drives, with multiple backups
the topmost uses of data centers are security, reliability, and efficiency. so that's why upgradation of data centers along years is very important.
so, How does data center serve?
The data stored in data centers are stored in form of a solid-state device. This SSD access the internal storage of the server. The server is a powerful computer whose job is to provide the stored content/data. All the data is mounted on the server which is present in the data center. Each server has its own IP address. In the internet world IP address act as shipping address through which all information reaches its destination. The server holds a website and you can access it by knowing the server’s IP address. The Data is transferred through the optical fiber cable to the WIFI router, the data is light formed. The router converts its analog form. And through the WIFI we can access the data from the Data Center. And for the cellular network, the data is transferred from fiber optic cable in the light form to cell tower. Where it converts the data in form of an electromagnetic wave and then it is connected to a cell phone.
