In 2005 Ulevitch realized that a specialized DNS service employing hundreds of servers around the world could store ip addresses physically closer to users and make finding Web addresses faster and more reliable.
Two computers with just one digit difference in their IP addresses could be half a world apart, while two other computers with several digits different in their IP addresses could be inches apart located on the same desk.
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And when, as will inevitably occur, player-generated IP acquires substantial real world monetary value, players should be able to access that value.
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For now, Wall Street believes in Cisco chief John Chambers, the Billy Graham of Internet Protocol, who proselytizes that the entire telecom world will make a fast conversion to IP, abandoning the "circuit switch" networks in which Lucent reigns.
It is still highly controversial in France, with the arts world divided in its support since the identification of IP addresses throws up a host of privacy issues.
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In the networked world, though, you cannot be sure the guy (IP address) that seems to be attacking you is really the one attacking you.
Though the information the search engine provides on the cameras themselves is typically little more than an IP address and a camera name or model number, Google still provides those who know how to ask with extensive lists of IP cameras and Web-enabled surveillance systems throughout the world.
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Remember that many investors had pronounced as dead the paper industry in general and IP in particular, in the dawning of the new digital world.
Being able to find a business by name rather than having to look up its address is the physical-world equivalent of typing in a domain name versus having to remember an IP address.
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Google has finally come to realize that in the wireless world patents are needed not only to protect your own Intellectual Property (IP) and to charge royalties to other companies that want to make use of the technology, but more importantly, patents are for bartering with other companies.
Like most Internet and Web standards, IP was developed and is used by a multitude of stakeholders across the world and the general agreement codified in this standard has been essential to the growth and vibrancy of the Internet.
The company's suite of IP-based business communications services is one of the most advanced in the world.
Take for example Internet Protocol (IP), which is the networking standard used to route electronic information packets around the world.
Security solutions based on physical infrastructure, and policy expressed in terms of a particular device, the corporate PC, an IP address, network port, or application protocol are becoming useless in a mobile, borderless world.
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