As someone who lives in Toronto, I certainly worry about how concentrated TORIX is, but even it has three physical locations (IIRC), and most folks connect elsewhere as well from the spelunking I've done in BGP.
So if one of these major carrier hotels does have a problem, I don't doubt that there would be repercussions, but I'm not worried about "the Internet" as a whole.
Next off, the their front page says:
> Carrier-Neutral with Access to 200+ Carriers
You're telling me these 200+ carriers have no other POPs?
Going to their "Connectivity" page, they show four trans-Pacific cable that land there:
* https://one-wilshire.com/connectivity/
Meanwhile there are a whole bunch of other trans-Pacific cables landing on the US West Coast:
* https://www.submarinecablemap.com
As someone who lives in Toronto, I certainly worry about how concentrated TORIX is, but even it has three physical locations (IIRC), and most folks connect elsewhere as well from the spelunking I've done in BGP.
So if one of these major carrier hotels does have a problem, I don't doubt that there would be repercussions, but I'm not worried about "the Internet" as a whole.