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The Importance of Internet Choke Points ✪
Andrew Blum at the Atlantic:
one of the single most important buildings on the global Internet, a giant fortress on the edge of Miami’s downtown known as the NAP of the Americas. …
more than 160 networks from around the world… meet there because the building is “carrier-neutral.” It’s a Switzerland of the Internet, an unallied territory where competing networks can connect to each other. Terremark doesn’t have a dog in the fight. Or at least it didn’t.
But Terremark just got bought by Verizon.
PS. Blum’s author bio says he’s “currently writing a book about the physical infrastructure of the Internet,” which I am now officially Looking Forward To.
