Gigantic is right, often, when it comes to telecom. Some years ago I worked on a Unix/C/Oracle software project for VSNL, a public sector or quasi-government e

Gigantic is right, often, when it comes to telecom. Some years ago I worked on a Unix/C/Oracle software project for VSNL, a public sector or quasi-government entity that was India's telecom carrier to/from abroad (V for the word Videsh, which means foreign country in Hindi). Worked onsite in their office in Mumbai, near the (Arabian) Sea coast, where international telecom cables probably come in. There was a huge telecom switch installed there. It was like the size of several really high refrigerators pushed together. First time I had seen one. Some Oriental-looking engineers were working on it (could have been from some Japanese company like Fujitsu or whatever, which might have been into that line of products - switches). I asked our VSNL contact there what the thing was, and he said it was the main telecom switch for connectivity between the outside world and India, and cost about INR 200 crore (IIRC). INR 200 crore in USD (today's rates): https://www.google.com/search?q=INR+200+crore+in+USD https://www.google.com/search?q=INR+200+crore+in+USD Works out to about USD 28 million for that switch.