First, you'll walk by the network-operating center. This room, shrouded in tinted glass, hosts Exodus' help desk staff. The main floor of the data center has white tile floors and rows upon rows of black chain-link cages. They can buy less only by sharing a cage with other customers' equipment or filling a cabinet, which sits outside the cage system. Some customers buy waterproof vaults, which are so secure that the tiles are screwed down and the equipment is hidden.
Security cameras are focused on all the cages.
Only security has access to the cages. I have to go to security to get them. As you walk through the data center, you'll notice a room with racks full of large switches and many thick wire lines. This is the node room. It houses the Cisco and Foundry Networks gear that provides Ethernet, Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet feeds to the backbone network.