"We expect it to be used heavily as an entry-level intranet and Internet server, " he said.

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However, ISPs have so widely deployed network address translation (NAT) devices, which coordinate multiple intranet addresses through a single Internet address, that they're in no hurry to move to IPv6.

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The human portion is your Intranet with its near-neighborhood Internet-halo of prosumer market operations.

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But Cuban figures for internet access include users of the heavily-censored government intranet, which limits users to certain pages such as email or those relevant to their work, adds our correspondent.

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The state government of Washington is one organization that has come up with a technology-enhanced Webcast that truly could exist nowhere but the Internet (or, more specifically, the state's intranet).

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American corporations and government agencies are more integrated into the Internet than their counterparts in North Korea, where most of the country has access to only a tightly controlled Intranet known as Kwangmyong.

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