The new vision: for decades, the icons of internationalism in South Florida have been its air and sea ports, which move billions of dollars in goods each year. The future, however, belongs to the less visible infrastructure of communications, and the service industries that feed from it.(Cover Story)

From: South Florida CEO | Date: April 1, 2003| Author: Faber, J.P. | Copyright information

There are no signs announcing the massive Telefonica USA data center west of Miami International Airport. The building has no markings, and nothing interrupts its blank, beige facade on 25th Street except for one small doorway, and security cameras mounted at strategic intervals.

The atmosphere inside the high-security facility is very Dr. Strangelove: windowless corridors, rooms full of power generators, rows of consoles with flickering lights, shiny gear linked by galv...

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