Most people know Verizon for the color red and its wireless network, but it also operates a $15 billion enterprise division that runs a not-insignificant chunk of the Internet. Over the years Verizon picked up strategic data-networking assets with MCI in 2006 for $8.5 billion and data-center operator Terremark in 2011 for $1.4 billion. Verizon’s IP network’s route miles could circle the globe 20 times. Verizon also runs 15 network access points (NAPs), giant disaster-proof buildings where dozen of Internet companies plug in together. One of those data centers is a building out in Culpeper, Va. It serves mostly government customers, who like it because it’s just outside the Capitol’s blast zone.
Source: Technology