World-class fiber-based internet service is available in less than a quarter of Los Angeles County. By contrast, it's almost ubiquitous in Stockholm and Paris.
This public IT veteran has one piece of advice for city leaders: whenever an infrastructure project calls for opening up a street, go ahead and build fiber alongside whatever else you're doing.
How do the zetabytes of data (mostly LOL Cats) move from city to city and across the world? A lot of it moves through New York's 60 Hudson street, which Ben Mendelsohn explored in Bundled, Buried & Behind Closed Doors, a short documentary he created for his masters thesis in media studies at the New School.