– A friend of mine in IT is always talking about the “secondary” or “private” internet network that big name corporations operate on, outside of “normal internet” traffic. What is this network, and how is it accessed?

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– A friend of mine in IT is always talking about the “secondary” or “private” internet network that big name corporations operate on, outside of “normal internet” traffic. What is this network, and how is it accessed?

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Surprised by the answers here… the MPLS answers are correct.

If you want a specific case-in-point, at my company, we pay for a private connection directly into the back-end of our AWS VPC. (A fancy way of saying we’ve got our own fiber connection directly into Amazon).

Lots of companies do stuff like this to DIRECTLY connect their shit to other people’s shit, so that it’s faster, and doesn’t have the reliability problems of the internet.