ISP Filtering – Saving you the Trouble
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.
Incidents of accidental damage to these cables can be quite an inconvenience with internet access and even communications cut off for several days. With businesses moving onto the VoIP unified communications standard, this can indeed be crippling to them and their customers for losing internet access and telephony services at the same time is a double whammy.