The militarization of cyber security policy will be very difficult in a liberal society with private infrastructure providers.
This shift from watching programs via a cable connection to an Internet connection has implications for broadcasters, infrastructure providers, consumer electronics companies and marketers.
We, and some of our rivals, are partnering with city authorities and electric infrastructure providers worldwide to make electric vehicles in cities a viable option.
The infrastructure providers in China really don't know themselves.
Or, as a growing number of my clients are doing, we let our outsourced cloud infrastructure providers, who are hosting all of our applications and databases, worry about connecting these remote people.
While CSPs may not be built from the ground up for the digital age, they can partner with software and infrastructure providers to help power the next business revolution with M2M technologies.
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In addition to the threat of hacking attempts originating from China, the work also touches upon the Chinese government's alleged involvement with network infrastructure providers such as Huawei.
The government has established a national adaptation strategy and major infrastructure providers are having to set out their plans for keeping the country running in a future projected to be several Celsius hotter, with more extreme weather events and higher sea levels around the coast.
The challenge is not to enable and cheer a bloated FCC picking favorites among content and infrastructure providers, but for the agency to legitimize property rights, special agreements and novel contracts, and articulate how these advance the "background hum" of even greater openness that we enjoy.
As well as handsets, it makes network infrastructure for mobile telecoms providers.
For now even small, local carriers will be able to leverage the infrastructure of the remaining providers to offer nationwide mobile data services.
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Configurations are fluid, capacity is shared and sourced from many places (multiple providers, infrastructure tiers, etc.), and all of these moving parts can impact performance.
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In theory, many companies can share the IT infrastructure of a few providers which, in turn, should reduce the overall energy consumption of SMEs worldwide.
As a result, major auto makers, OEMs, fuel providers and infrastructure players are creating an environment that makes natural gas transportation a viable option for both businesses and consumers.
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Along with established Infrastructure as a Service providers such as Amazon Web Services and RackSpace, IT vendors such as Microsoft and HP have been upping the ante, offering greater capacity and scalability to the enterprise market.
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The government has taken a strategic approach, targeting potential providers with aid and infrastructure projects, particularly in Africa.
H20 Networks is planning to roll out fibre to around a dozen cities across the UK, although in each case it will be only be providing the infrastructure and will rely on service providers to offer the broadband to consumers.
For example, in Uganda, mobile-network providers cite a lack of infrastructure for not establishing services in some areas.
In the Pilot Texas Cloud Offering (PTCO), a small group of agencies were allowed to choose a virtual private cloud-based infrastructure as a service from a marketplace of service providers made available by a cloud broker.
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Etno says a new business model is needed to provide service providers with the "incentive to invest in network infrastructure".
Why build new infrastructure in areas of little traffic, especially if incumbent rural providers can immediately make claims to use it?
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The crux of the change focuses on how requests to modify existing base stations and wireless towers are reviewed, and is designed to give providers less pause when investing in building out their infrastructure.
HealthIT has been one area where there has been common ground with the Obama administration doubling down on what the Bush administration put in place the modernization of the healthIT infrastructure which remains a decade or two behind in part because providers are spending billions to fight the last battle.
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The Cyber Security Act of 2012 aims to give the Department of Homeland Security the power to mandate the security level in industries it deems as critical infrastructure, such as power and telecommunications, water treatment facilities and wireless providers.
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We help communities and network providers across the globe develop, capitalize, implement and leverage sustainable infrastructure investments for civic and economic transformation.
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For example, wireless broadband will likely take hold in rural areas where providers can't afford to build out new cable or fiber infrastructure.
Because they have optimized network connections to the customers and the cloud providers, they are a natural cloud hub for a multi-cloud infrastructure.
Most service providers are only at 35% capacity and have little incentive to spend on new infrastructure.
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