Wholesale telecommunications and Internet backbone services purchased by Internet service providers would be exempt from tax.
Internet backbone is a bit of a misnomer -- it's really backbones these days.
That prospect has the folks who own the Internet backbone more than a little worried.
Things will get very interesting on the Internet backbone when Apple really rolls out in China.
He uses 200 megabit-per-second Internet backbone lines to carry his signals to hubs in Long Island, N.
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U.S. and European antitrust types worry that a combined MCI-Worldcom would control 60% of Internet backbone traffic.
On the Internet backbone, where there is no risk of a natural monopoly, collaboration is already the pattern.
When MCI merged with WorldCom two years ago, the European Commission forced the pair to spin off MCI's Internet backbone.
Matt Miller, a spokesman for iAdvance, says the coalition's first concern has been the Internet backbone, not local access lines.
He also looked at buying into Uunet, a fast-growing Internet backbone operator that would have brought rich returns, but the owners wanted to retain control.
The gateway then translates the voice into digits and sends the data packets across the Internet backbone, terminating at another gateway in Singapore.
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.
Netflix tries to minimize its presence on the true Internet backbone.
The Internet itself is not being expanded very rapidly because there is no longer a business model that makes sense for those who provide the Internet backbone.
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.
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.
"There's not enough Internet backbone in the country, " Miller says.
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.
Over the summer, iAdvance released a study purporting to demonstrate that regions of the country served by non-Bell carriers -- those with no long-distance restrictions -- tend to enjoy more high-speed Internet backbone interconnection points.
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.
All of a sudden in 2007 under the Pacific and in 2008 under the Atlantic the cables started filling up with bits and have continued to do so, despite the fact that capacity on the international Internet backbone traffic is up a compounded 64% a year from 2006 to 2010, according to TeleGeography Research.
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.
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.
Then there were the companies that provided the internet's backbone, like MCI and WorldCom.
As users proliferate, the servers that form the Internet's backbone will also come under more strain.
So far this year, the amount of traffic across the Internet's backbone is up 49%.
Its modular design also means that it can easily expand from cheap consumer devices to big servers supporting the Internet's backbone.
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.
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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