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IPRVnet is a fictitious regional ISP providing dial (analog, ISDN), dedicated (T1, T3), and broadband (DSL) Internet access services to small-to-medium businesses (SMBs). IPRVnet delivers service in a tri-state greater...
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One measure of the risk associated with an Internet connection is its bandwidth. Given, the same window of opportunity, an attacker can copy more information from a compromised system over...
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Today, a growing number of managed Internet security providers stand ready to help DLECs deliver secure broadband services. Companies like ISS Managed Security Services, MyCIO.com, RipTech, Telenisus, and DefendNet take...
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One of the reasons it's so hard to identify killer applications for broadband local access is that we tend to look for something new, different and innovative in the application...
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Broadband providers like EarthLink, Excite@Home, Prodigy, BroadView, and others have shown that they are paying attention to subscriber concern about Internet security. Making personal firewalls available to residential subscribers may...
Kingston Communications - the telco that owns a local loop service in the Hull area - is introducing a dial-up service that costs 5.5p per call, while X-Stream - an ISP that was subscription-free months before Freeserve - is now testing free...
BT has bowed to industry pressure and reduced tariffs for ISP's running dial-up access services. It won't help ISPs provide anything of much interest, for example, to the significant number of small businesses that still use dial-up Internet access.
Meanwhile, NTL remains tight-lipped over press speculation it is in talks with Dixons to buy UK ISP Freeserve. Other companies rumoured to be in acquisition talks for Freeserve include the German ISP T-Online.
Parker added: "This is like the early days of internet dial-up services revisited. He commented: "Users may legitimately ask their ISP, 'Why did you get me to sign up by saying this is miles better than what I've experienced with a modem, but then...
When you pick up a telephone and dial a number, a circuit is established between you and whoever you call and it lasts for the duration of your conversation. In that same town you will find an ISP, providing a packet switching capability in a...
So that's a far more restrictive environment than we had with dial-up. When you dial up some person on today's telephone network, you are tying down a full 64 kilobit channel. These new networks all ought to be openly accessible to any ISP for a...
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