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Article: Capitalizing on a strategic location: the flow of information across South Florida knows no geographic or political boundaries. As such, the industries which move it--telecom and IT--are regional by their very nature.(IT/Telecom)
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- South Florida CEO
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- June 1, 2004
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If there is one thing that definitely doesn't respect political boundaries, it is the flow of information. Even though most of the undersea fiber optic cables that make South Florida a strategic technology location come ashore in Boca Raton and Hollywood, for example, the Network Access Point of the Americas (NAP)--one of the key means of moving data onto those eables--is located in Miami.
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That is one reason why the InternetCoast was one of South Florida's first regional business organizations. It was formed in 1998, when a handful of budding South Florida information technology companies joined together in Boca Raton and began to ...