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I think this just reminds everyone that as large as google, facebook, etc seem to be, they are just a small part of this huge global network we humans have crea

I think this just reminds everyone that as large as google, facebook, etc seem to be, they are just a small part of this huge global network we humans have created. As large as Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc is on the web, the major telcos have to be even larger (in terms of network size, capacity, amount of fibre, switches, datacentres) in order to carry the traffic.

EricBurnett 14y ago
That's only true to a point. In addition to the consumer-directed packets, large volumes of traffic for Google and Amazon never leave their networks. Shuttling data between datacenters for Google; moving data within the many cloud services of Amazon; or transferring between the two companies (e.g. GCS to S3). This means it's no longer a given that telcos must be larger. The closer we get to living "in the cloud", the more our traffic can be seen as a window into operations taking place within and between cloud services.