Mason, a technical program manager at Peer3, walked into the office of the chief network architect.
"Hey, Roman, got a minute?"
"Sure, Mason, what do you need?"
"Got a new customer that's asking for hundred gigabit connections at fifteen different sites."
"A new customer?" asked Roman. "This isn't BallSoft or Yoctoly adding new capacity?"
"Nope," replied Mason. "New customer called Radius 10K."
"That's the new AI company that's been making waves recently. They must be planning to go on-prem with their services if they're asking for so much bandwidth."
"That was my first thought as well, but the locations they want us to light up are not where you'd expect to host a data center."
"What do you mean?" asked Roman.
"With the kind of bandwidth their asking for, you'd expect them to be provisioning a medium to large data center that would pull 20 to 50 megawatts, but each location is in an area that would not support that kind of power draw."
