Home Subjects Archives Quotations
Search: Search Tips

telecom hotel noun. A building designed to hold only telecommunications equipment.

Example Citation:
"Unlike the company's other buildings, the six-story, 500,000-square-foot structure is not intended to house people. Instead, it is being designed for machinery, the servers, routers and switches that are the physical underpinning of the rapidly growing electronic commerce being conducted on the Internet....It is a new type of property known in the industry as a telecom hotel, because it houses equipment belonging to many different telecommunications companies."
—John Holusha, "Home for Machinery of the Internet," The New York Times, August 16, 2000

Related Word:
stealth tower

Subject Categories:
Culture - Housing and Architecture
Technology - General

Posted on August 23, 2000 at 5:15 PM
Updated on August 23, 2000 at 5:15 PM


 Recent posts:
  jingle mail
  tuxeda
  boreout
  scuppie
  allergy bullying
  IMBY
  agflation
  mullet strategy
  walkshed
  daughter track
 Alphabetical archives:
  A B C D E F G H I
  J K L M N O P Q R
  S T U V W X Y Z #
 Other links:
Top 100 Words

Recent Words

Recent Quotes

Word Spy, The Book

Word Spy Citations

Feedback

My Favorite Words

My Neologisms

Paul McFedries



Copyright © 1995 - 2008 Paul McFedries and Logophilia Limited