Paul Vixie

Paul Vixie appears in Infrastructure lessons from the dot-com bubble as an early internet innovator who walks Marketplace Tech host Megan McCarty-Carino through Menlo Park telecom infrastructure. The source says he helped build the Palo Alto Internet Exchange and dot-com-era fiber networks, and now works as a vice president at AWS Security.

Vixie’s interpretive role is more important than his current title. He argues that the fiber buildout should not be reduced to a simple glut: companies failed, but the installed capacity later became useful infrastructure for search, social media, streaming, cryptocurrency, and AI. That makes him a source voice for Productive Bubble Spillovers, Dark Fiber, and the Technology Installation Cycle branch of the wiki.

Connections

• Marketplace Tech - show where Vixie gives the dot-com fiber comparison.
• Megan McCarty-Carino - host of the episode.
• Palo Alto Internet Exchange - internet exchange point Vixie is described as helping build.
• Amazon Web Services - current affiliation through AWS Security.
• Dark Fiber, Productive Bubble Spillovers, and Technology Installation Cycle - main concepts his comments support.
• Strategic AI Infrastructure Dependence and AI Compute Continuity - broader AI-infrastructure context that depends on physical networks as well as compute.