In early 1999, an associate computer science professor at UC Santa Barbara climbed the steps to the second floor headquarters of a small startup in Palo Alto, and wound up surprising himself by accepting a job offer. Even so, Urs Hölzle hedged his bet by not resigning from his university post, but taking a year-long leave.
He would never return. Hölzle became a fixture in the company —
called Google. As its czar of infrastructure, Hölzle oversaw the
growth of its network operations from a few cages in a San Jose
co-location center to a massive internet power; a 2010 study by
Arbor Networks concluded that if Google was an ISP it would be
the second largest in the world (the largest is Tier
3, which services over 2,700 major corporations in 450
markets over 100,000 fiber miles.)
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