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How much space and power do you get access into the ISP locations you are in? Are we talking single 4u and 8a? Or full racks, I suppose the answer is always, "it depends." What does the hardware side of CF look like? You must be toying with custom silicon.

It always baffled me that regional ISPs weren't selling that last mile bandwidth to customers for real dollars. Even over DSL lines in the late 90s one could have run an amazing VoD service.

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It depends, as you said. You can look at our network map and get some sense of where we likely have a little vs a lot of equipment:

https://www.cloudflare.com/network/

But we deploy enough equipment to meet local demand (so will roughly correlate to population served). And that makes sense for ISPs to support because the alternative is them paying for back haul bandwidth themselves.

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