The physical reality of 'the internet' is pretty mundane–just servers and cables. The idea that the internet physically exists somewhere, though, and that place is a hotel in Manhattan, that's pretty wild. (From 2015)
shortage of cool stuff to see on the Internet, but the Internet itself—the networks and servers and cables tying it all together—is pretty mundane. Peter Garritano discovered as much when he went behind the scenes at some of New York's big Internet hubs to see how it all works.always knew the Internet is as much a place as it is a thing, one where vast networks in frigid rooms move enormous amounts of data around the world.
At a carrier hotel, AT&T's network can hook up with Verizon's network. Verizon's network can connect with Google's network. And so on. Mostly, it's a place for connecting big Internet service providers like AT&T and Verizon—the organizations that give homes and business their Internet connections—but increasingly, the companies that run massive applications over the Internet—like Google and Microsoft—are starting to run their own networks as well.
Meanwhile, all sort of other companies that use the Internet can set up machines inside these facilities. That's how they get their websites and other software to you and a world of businesses. Getting into these wired hotels wasn't easy. Garritano pinged tech journalists for leads and spent weeks sending emails and making calls to arrange meetings. Two of the five carrier hotels in New York didn't want to be named, but the other three are run by outfits like
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