Hunter Newby doesn’t claim to have invented the Meet-Me Room, but he created one of the first, in the iconic and historical Manhattan facility, 60 Hudson Street, in about 1998
At the time data centers had separate connections from multiple carriers, and linking between those carriers meant running a link between their connection points – and paying them heavily. Hunter set up a room where the networks all met up for physical (layer 0) connections – and the rest is history.
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