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Bundled, Buried & Behind Closed Doors
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Bundled, Buried & Behind Closed Doors

2011 · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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60 Hudson Street in lower Manhattan looks like an ordinary Art Deco office building from the sidewalk, but inside it is one of the most densely connected internet exchange points on the planet. This short documentary walks through the building's history as a former Western Union telegraph hub and traces how that legacy made it a magnet for fiber optic carriers, data centers, and peering arrangements that quietly route enormous volumes of global internet traffic. Interviews and footage inside the facility show cable risers, cooling systems, and locked server rooms, the unglamorous machinery that keeps data moving between networks. The film treats the building as a case study in how the internet, despite its reputation as a placeless cloud, actually depends on a handful of physical choke points controlled by real companies in real cities. It is a short, focused look at infrastructure most users never think about, told through the people who maintain it and the concrete, wires, and locked doors that make it work.