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The Future of the Final Mile
99% Invisible
The Internet Is a Series of Tubes
Data goes through roughly three different layers of internet tubing, or what are sometimes called tiars e ter. One is like these big backbone lines that span the country or go under oceans,. Another is transit, which often own cables connecting cities within large regions. And there too, it's sort of like transit, like kind of long stretches of towers. The last mile is all the millions of tiny connections that go down various streets and under or over people's driveways. Teer three companies are the ones left to do this for entire cities and sometimes entire regions. Even though the last mile weighs less sexy than country backbones, it can be way more expensive.
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