The scientists believe that, since thinly populated areas hold little incentive for commercial internet service providers, public sector investment is needed to establish a backbone of internet connections across rural Scotland.
Over the last 20 years, Cisco has come to dominate the business of routers and switches--the specialized computers that shuttle packets of data around a network, and form the backbone of the Internet--and about two thirds of its revenue comes from sales of those devices.
Conversely, Amazon EC2 is always connected to the backbone of the internet where round-trip latency is 5 milliseconds or less to most web sites rather than the 100 milliseconds seen over wireless connections.
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And rather than wait for Nitel to deliver a high capacity link to connect him and his customers to the backbone of the internet, he has opted for a direct satellite link to the United States.
While EarthLink, which announced the PeoplePC deal today, has been showing respectable growth in its broadband Internet business, the backbone of its business, dial-up Internet, has been flat.
Anyone can issue instructions to the basic building blocks of the Internet, the backbone routers, that, if accepted, will seriously disrupt the function of the Internet.
U.S. and European antitrust types worry that a combined MCI-Worldcom would control 60% of Internet backbone traffic.
The billions of dollars Google and Facebook invest in data centers and backbone infrastructure shape the physical characteristics of the Internet while the alliances they forge and the battles they choose to fight determine its political constitution.
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In other words, that one 3-inch by 3-inch picture on the computer screen is hogging no less than 6% of the entire Internet backbone capacity in North America.
Internet backbone is a bit of a misnomer -- it's really backbones these days.
If the FCC and Department of Justice allow the deal to go through at all, they will likely demand a spinoff of part of the trio's Internet backbone.
If the Federal Communications Commission and Department of Justice allow the deal to go through at all, they will likely demand a spinoff of part of the trio's Internet backbone.
So far this year, the amount of traffic across the Internet's backbone is up 49%.
If that mission is successful, then we might start seeing the backbone of a satellite-based, secure, quantum Internet.
China has nine state-licensed Internet access providers (IAPs), each of which has at least one gateway pipe leading out of the country to a foreign Internet backbone.
Verizon played down the prospect of doing a big acquisition, saying instead that it could look to establish beach heads in ways that take advantage of the company's global Internet backbone and other data centers around the world.
On the Internet backbone, where there is no risk of a natural monopoly, collaboration is already the pattern.
It started as a small local phone service, but he has since expanded it to include a 25, 000-kilometer fiber backbone, a fat slice of nationwide cellular radio spectrum and an Internet access provider.
It started as a small-scale local phone service, but he has since expanded it to include a 16, 000-mile fiber backbone, a fat slice of nationwide cellular radio spectrum and a major Internet access provider.
CDNs can be thought of as repeaters, stationed strategically to help manage the Internet traffic by avoiding the backbone or by finding intelligent routes through it.
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