Room 641A
Room 641A is a telecommunication interception facility operated by AT&T for the U.S. National Security Agency. Facility commenced operations in 2003 and its purpose was publicly revealed in 2006. The room measures about 24 by 48 feet and contains several racks of equipment.
About Room 641A in brief
Room 641A is a telecommunication interception facility operated by AT&T for the U.S. National Security Agency. Facility commenced operations in 2003 and its purpose was publicly revealed in 2006. The room measures about 24 by 48 feet and contains several racks of equipment, including a Narus STA 6400, a device designed to intercept and analyze Internet communications at very high speeds. It is fed by fiber optic lines from beam splitters installed in fiber optic trunks carrying Internet backbone traffic.
It has access to all Internet traffic that passes through the building, and therefore can enable surveillance and analysis of internet content on a massive scale, including both overseas and purely domestic traffic, according to an analysis by J. Scott Marcus, a former CTO for GTE.
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