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Maybe I'm overly skeptical in my old age, but I have a difficult time believing this. Surely there'd some sort of rental cost for the line in addition to the b
by dan1234 14y ago
Maybe I'm overly skeptical in my old age, but I have a difficult time believing this.
Surely there'd some sort of rental cost for the line in addition to the bandwidth cost (or perhaps a minimum spend commitment)? Wouldn't it have been cheaper, simpler and possibly quicker just to get a smaller line and saturate that?
Has anyone read the book? Does the author provide a credible source?
Smells like urban legend.
- damian2000 14y agoI was surprised to read this in the book, and even more surprised that it seemed no one had discussed it online yet either, as far as I could tell. Its on page 187 of the book. The author, Steven Levy's source for this story is Urs Hölzle who was the first VP of Engineering at Google. His title now is Senior Vice President for Technical Infrastructure.