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It is no secret that the UK is one of the world’s most developed countries, but a move to implement a 10 Gbps internet infrastucture system, might be too high an aim, even for such a well off country. The proposal is to boost the ability of the UK to gain access to the internet but people are seeing it as a move to unify the many government services to boost monitoring and surveillance attempts, a thing that most Brit’s are not liking. They do love the idea of having faster internet access but if it is to serve the government’s watchdog efforts, none want it. Continue reading ‘UK 10 Gigabyte Network – Too High an Aim’ »

Most 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’ »

Australia is again trying to go on a country-wide broadband access plan which would unite the country and allow full access to the internet where ever you may be in the land down under. The government has refused many offers from private companies to develop and put the necessary infrastructure in place for the project is to be a national one. The costs are staggering but today’s world of WiFi and WiMax would surely allow more people internet access as well as less infrastructure to cover the whole country. The US is also on a move to do the same, taking internet access to rural America but these are plans that may have to wait, till the recession passes and people start spending and bringing in cash to businesses. Continue reading ‘Country-Wide Internet’ »

The many internet providers around the globe are always looking for expansion and innovative technologies to expand their reach. This allows more people to get hooked onto the internet allowing their subscribers high-speed access to the internet. DSL technology has some distance limitations which is roughly a thousand meters to the nearest access point which is normally in a telephone company’s switching office and then comes Wi-Max, Continue reading ‘Wi-Max – Next generation internet’ »

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In their mission to develop and further improve their web speed, the company Cisco Systems launched recently their new-edge routers. This is directed to alleviate the needs of their customers for faster connections to the internet in the wake of rising popularity of movie downloads and video streaming. And also Internet accessibility with mobile phones. The company predicts that internet traffic will grow twice as much in the next four years. Their product like the ASR 9000 edge router boasts of capacity six times more than their competitors namely Juniper Networks. The ASR 9000 is worth around $80,000 with optional 6 or 10slot versions. Their product is currently being tested in the United States and in several European service providers.

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To the majority of people, satellite Internet service offers the answer. Satellite Internet access enables most everyone, anywhere to have the ability to surf the Internet with lightning-fast speed. There are two types of satellite Internet access, “one way” and “two way” systems.

Two way satellite systems send and receive information from your satellite dish over the Internet and deliver it directly to your computer. The biggest benefit of a two way setup is that you’re able to receive high speed Internet access without tying up your phone line. Two way satellite Internet service also gives you an always on system. Browsing and download speeds can be as high as 1.5mpbs with upload speed about 128kbps.

If you are going to be uploading lots of information then two way satellite Internet service may be best for you. Conversely, for the average to moderate Internet browser, one way satellite Internet service offers high speed that is reliable and much less expensive than two way access. Because of the ease and dependability, one way satellite Internet systems are not regulated by the FCC. This gives you the ability to make a choice of professional or self installation.

As piracy booms all over the Internet, are Internet Service Providers the key to stopping this activity? Considering that ISPs are supposedly seen as an open highway for anyone to traverse through, how would users feel when they suddenly encounter an ISP traffic cop?

There was a taste of this case last year when ComCast was accused by their customers of allegedly limiting Bit torrent downloads. What more, if this suddenly becomes the norm? It seems that the industry leaders at the Consumer Electronics Show were interested.

Rick Cotton, the general counsel of NBC Universal, who has led the company’s fights against companies like YouTube for the last three years, clearly doesn’t have much tolerance for that line of thinking.

“The volume of peer-to-peer traffic online, dominated by copyrighted materials, is overwhelming. That clearly should not be an acceptable, continuing status,” he said. “The question is how we collectively collaborate to address this.”

What does 2008 hold for the Internet and its denizens? Only time will tell.

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