There's no need for speculation. Jared has already said in this thread that's exactly what he was hired for.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXBKnAbW4hQ



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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions

Midwest Internet Exchange

The Brothers WISP


From: "Mark Tinka" <mark.tinka@seacom.mu>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Sent: Monday, December 9, 2019 3:57:55 AM
Subject: Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai



On 8/Dec/19 19:17, Rod Beck wrote:

Last time I spoke with an Akamai engineer many years ago the network was purely transit. Is that evolving?

I believe Akamai are building, to a reasonable degree, an on-net backbone.

Mark.