The operation, carried out at listening station operated jointly by GCHQ with the NSA in Bude, in Britain's Cornwall region, is largely directed at Internet exchange points used by the ground station to feed the communications of their large customers into the broadband Internet. In addition to spying on the internet traffic passing through these nodes, the GCHQ workers state they are also seeking to identify important customers of the German teleport providers,their technology suppliers as well as future technical trends in their business sector