This is the only currently-declassified public photograph of The Pit, my most common operating position. Microphone is a Shure S55H through a Cloudlifter into a Scarlett Solo USB. Studio lighting via shoot-through umbrellas and a green chroma-key background, to create a telepresence experience that’s… well, whatever we need it to be. Currently powered by a Mac Studio M1 Max as of this writing, but a corporate hardware refresh is just around the corner.
Frontier 10Gbit fiber service terminates here; There’s a 10GE copper/fiber switch under the desk. The highest-speed connections, however, are the 40Gbps Thunderbolt connections between a handful of the Macs. There’s around 75TB of data online, served mostly via the 10-gig wires in addition to the Eero Multi-AP Wifi-6 system, which itself lights up about half of the city block.
Public-facing services (like this website) are served from this room, but the public IP addresses come from various VPS/VPN providers depending on the application.
Ongoing internal and customer-related projects of various levels of secrecy often make it prohibitive to photograph this area, but this one image is at least considered safe.
After all, you can’t even see the Apple IIGS screen.