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i used to know lots of it as I was trying in the early 90s to be an ISP.
There's lots of specialized hardware for the network interfaces, but no different if you were to setup a datacenter for a good sized company. The biggest difference is that the ISP will have some sort of bandwidth aggregator/load balancing software to track and throttle as needed.
I do recall an ISP looking to split costs with a fledgling ISP that one "franchises" and then sets up, first they give you a rack, then once you've marketed and filled up that space you start to build your own datacenter.
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