Secure, more performance, made sure it is always available. Given users of it insight into how it was working. What we do is run a network that spans the globe, we have seven million customers that range from tiny little Small Businesses up to some of the fortune 50 companies. And we ensure that they are fast, safe, always available, no matter who is accessing them anywhere online. Protecting them from hackers, making sure the good guys get through on a fast lane. And to do that we run one of the Largest Networks in the world. So we have data centers in 120 cities around the world. We see about 10 of all internet requests flow through our network. And when were doing our job right, you dont even know we exist. We make the internet faster and safer behind the scenes. How do you do that . What technologies do you use . We built all of our own software. We have equipment running in those 120 cities. Im sitting in San Francisco right now, so our nearest data sent center is in san jose. We
The sudden loss of life here in ed lee, it is also important that city look to the future and right now the president of the board of supervisors, london breed is acting mayor. A special election will take place june 5th of next year. The winner chosen by voters will finish out lees term which ends in january of 2020. Between now and june, however, the board of supervisors can meet at any time to vote on someone other than lon don brie to serve as acting mayor. The. There is no one like him. Because he wasnt a politician, he did things very differently. Sudden death of mayor ed lee, an earthquake thats shaken the Political Landscape of the city. Who will be the next mayor . Former state senator mark leno is the only one who is a declared candidate for the november Mayoral Election in 20 2019. But now, there will be a special election for interim mayor in june. He faces election much sooner. I was prepared for another two years of campaigning. Now it will be a mere six months. Leno has
Welcome to the 14th annual state of the net conference. Thank you for coming. Some have been here for 14 years in a row and i really appreciate. A lot of you have been here for a number of years. I think you as well. This year has been an interesting year. Not only national affairs, but also in internet policy. It has been a really interesting convulsive, different year. A lot of things have changed. We are really excited. When put together a great group of speakers that will be here to talk about a lot of those changes that have happened to us in internet policy in the last year. Also scope out what we think this year will look like. That is kind of the point of state of the neck. In january. My name is tim and im the executive director of the organization founded by jerry berman who was over here. You will hear from him at lunch who founded the organization and found the concept. [applause] jerry is a giant and we are happy to have him back. He will be introducing in the program so y
Its made it even more effective. These will require the carriers to deliver alerts that were precisely match the affected area so encourage local officials to use peas during emergencies and also encourage americans to take alerts more seriously since folks know that any alert they received in the vicinity. The rules also require them to be preserved for 24 which will make it easier for them to access it use the information contained. Very pleased we gain support for these improvements among other items that we adopted a today in our action today once again demonstrates the commissions strong commitment to protecting the safety of the American People and with that i will be happy to take any questions you may have. I was wondering if there is any possibility to seek to compel the officials to speak to them further. I cant speak to the further steps that we intend to take but we are hopeful that we can secure as much cooperation as possible from anyone involved in this incident. Its cri