Amazon S3 and Simple DB and Google App Engine all charge based on storage, bandwidth, and CPU time.

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In contrast, the Internet is typically priced based on quantity of bandwidth, regardless of what kind of content is being consumed.

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There are many types of servers (for recommendation, load balancing, streaming to different devices, search queries, page servers, caching etc) spread over several locations all over the world, file types and formats for a plethora of consumer devices based on resolution, type of device, bandwidth of the consumer and the hardware capability.

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FiOS, Verizon's fiber-optic solution, and Exede, ViaSat's high-bandwidth satellite service -- two common secondary offerings -- happen to be the two frontrunners in the FCC's latest broadband performance report, which rates companies based on actual download and upload speeds compared to advertised bandwidth, among other metrics.

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"For decades now, Ethernet has provided the flexible connectivity foundation on which application innovation and the bandwidth explosion have been based, " said Brad Smith, senior vice president and chief analyst at LightCounting.com, an optical transceiver and high-speed interconnect market research firm.

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Provisioning more bandwidth from the satellites is not the answer without also considering land-based services and on-ship clouds for caching of data.

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Any device, any platform, any bandwidth, absolutely anywhere in the world - Opera Software was founded in 1994, based on the idea that access to the Web should be a universal right.

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