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by pavs 2969 days ago
They scaled by making a huge investment in their network. They didn't make a fundamental new technical discovery that didn't exist before. They had money, they threw money at the problem, as expected it worked. The problem was an investment (which takes time), not technical.

https://peering.google.com/#/ https://code.facebook.com/posts/565767133547005/steering-oce...

Any ISP (if big enough), can host their own Google, Akamai, Facebook, Netflix nodes on their premise.