Florida · network infrastructure

Miami holds Florida's interconnection. Equinix MI1 in the NOTA building has 332 networks, nearly eight times the count at the next site, ColoHouse Miami on 42. Digital Realty at 36 NE 2nd Street has 32 and Equinix MI2 has 27. Away from Miami, Cologix JAX1 in Jacksonville has 34, H5 Data Centers Tampa has 30 and CoreSite Orlando has 14. Traffic meets in Miami. FL-IX records 197 participants and Equinix Miami 173, while TPAIX in Tampa has 24 and JXIX in Jacksonville has 13.

A Florida IP address reports the location its operator registered, and that record is what geolocation vendors read. The machine itself can sit anywhere on the operator's network. Mobile traffic concentrates further. AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon route subscriber sessions through regional gateways, so a phone connected in Tampa or Orlando can present an address registered in Miami, and a phone connected in Florida can present an address registered in another state.

The origin ASN on a prefix is a better signal than the state name. Mobile ASNs such as 16586, 20057 and 22394 announce blocks that follow gateway placement, so the state attached to them describes carrier infrastructure. A prefix originated inside the NOTA building, where 332 networks are present, comes from an operator with a physical address in Miami. The netname on the record names that operator, and both fields sit in the same public registry as these counts.