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Internet's unsung guardians labor in obscurity to keep Web moving
sfgate.com — "People think of the Internet as incredibly massive," said Aristotle Balogh, chief technology officer at VeriSign Inc., the Mountain View company that runs software systems that keep the network operating. "It's really a couple of hundred data centers that interconnect and another 10,000 to 20,000 centers that house content and services."
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- NuchDog, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3How does changing light bulbs and fixing generators equal unsung hero?
I guess the janitors at the UN are the unsung heroes of world peace. - jayadelson, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2There is no comparison. If someone doesn't clean the floor, the meetings go on at the UN. In the Internet, if that generator doesn't work, the Internet goes down (or at least parts of it). I'd say this was something more akin to "keeping the life support functioning" than you might think.
- AliasHandler, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1"Inside the cavernous facility, past stern-looking security guards and multiple sets of doors protected by biometric hand readers, lie the guts of the Internet. In giant rooms linked by a series of corridors, are the tubes that make it all possible, much more efficient than a dump truck to pass data along."
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