[ChuckMcM]

I've had a couple of experiences in my career where the enormity of something just sort of changed my world view. The first time was when I was working as an intern at IBM during the summer and came across the complete list of IBM's property holdings. Back in the 70's they would have made the largest REITs look puny. The second time was about a month into my tenure at Google when I discovered a tool called 'network weather' (which, appropriately, gave an overview of what was going on across the global network). Without being specific, I can say that Google fully appreciated the importance of network bandwidth on their ability to operate.