Archive for April 2009

ISP Filtering – Saving you the Trouble

ISP FirewallsMost people fail to realize that ISP’s have security firewalls in place similar to what most search engines use to prevent harmful content and hackers from gaining control of their networks. The internet is actually a huge inter-connected web on networks, linked logically as well as physically through cables that serves countries and territories all over the globe. These companies are large though they rarely make the headlines for they do safeguard their equipment and the land-based cables that links the networks together. Some countries are linked by several redundant fiber optic cables and some even have satellite-based systems serving as stand-by links in the event of a system wide-outage. Continue reading ‘ISP Filtering – Saving you the Trouble’ »