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For a change, here's something from that 25% routing hardware in the booths.

Even though the logo is blurred, any network person will recognize it immediately. This is as famous in the field as the red-and-white logo of a certain beverage.

Most of our routers are Ciscos. What you see here is a Cisco 2500, one of the smaller models. It probably eats one or two of those S2M lines, turning the serial bits into well-formed IP packets and forwarding them onto our company backbone.

Where's that running? Well, parts of it are running through our office rooms you already have seen before. The big action, however, happens in our new server room. Quite a lot of cables bridge the 200 ft to that room, going through two stairwells or some walls.

We'll take the stairs to arrive at....