85 relations: Acceptable use policy, Amsterdam Internet Exchange, AOL, Asynchronous transfer mode, Autonomous system (Internet), BBN Technologies, Border Gateway Protocol, Cable & Wireless Worldwide, Canadian Internet Registration Authority, Cogent Communications, Colocation centre, Computer network, Contract, Data center, Data link layer, Data-rate units, Default-free zone, Deutscher Commercial Internet Exchange, Dot-com bubble, Doughnut, Equinix, Ethernet, Exodus Communications, Federal Communications Commission, Fiber Distributed Data Interface, Free (ISP), Gentlemen's agreement, Gigabit Ethernet, Heinz Heise, Hot-potato and cold-potato routing, InfoWorld, Interconnect agreement, Interior gateway protocol, Internet, Internet exchange point, Internet traffic engineering, Internet transit, IP address, Japan Network Access Point, Latency (engineering), Level 3 Communications, Linuxfr, LONAP, London Internet Exchange, London Internet Providers Exchange, Looking Glass server, MAE-East, MCI Inc., Moscow Internet Exchange, NAP of the Americas, ..., National Science Foundation Network, Net neutrality, Network access point, Network congestion, North American Network Operators' Group, Oligopoly, Optical Carrier transmission rates, Orange S.A., OVH, Packet Clearing House, Packet loss, PC World, PSINet, Route server, Routing, Settlement (finance), SFR, Slate (magazine), Sprint Corporation, Synchronous optical networking, Telecommunication, Telephone, Telia Company, The Washington Post, Tier 1 network, Toroid, Tysons, Virginia, United States, United States Department of Justice, Vendor-neutral data centre, Virginia, VSNL International Canada, XO Communications, YouTube, 100 Gigabit Ethernet. Expand index (35 more) »
Acceptable use policy
An acceptable use policy (AUP), acceptable usage policy or fair use policy, is a set of rules applied by the owner, creator or administrator of a network, website, or service, that restrict the ways in which the network, website or system may be used and sets guidelines as to how it should be used.
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Amsterdam Internet Exchange
The Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX) is an Internet exchange point based in Amsterdam, in the Netherlands.
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AOL
AOL (formerly a company known as AOL Inc., originally known as America Online, and stylized as Aol.) is a web portal and online service provider based in New York.
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Asynchronous transfer mode
Asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) is, according to the ATM Forum, "a telecommunications concept defined by ANSI and ITU (formerly CCITT) standards for carriage of a complete range of user traffic, including voice, data, and video signals".
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Autonomous system (Internet)
Within the Internet, an autonomous system (AS) is a collection of connected Internet Protocol (IP) routing prefixes under the control of one or more network operators on behalf of a single administrative entity or domain that presents a common, clearly defined routing policy to the Internet.
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BBN Technologies
BBN Technologies (originally Bolt, Beranek and Newman) is an American high-technology company which provides research and development services.
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Border Gateway Protocol
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is a standardized exterior gateway protocol designed to exchange routing and reachability information among autonomous systems (AS) on the Internet.
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Cable & Wireless Worldwide
Cable & Wireless Worldwide PLC (informally Cable & Wireless) was a British multinational telecommunications services company headquartered in Bracknell, United Kingdom.
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Canadian Internet Registration Authority
The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) (French: Autorité canadienne pour les enregistrements Internet ACEI) is the organization that manages the.CA country code top-level domain, the policies that support Canada’s Internet community and Canada’s involvement in international Internet governance.
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Cogent Communications
Cogent Communications is a multinational internet service provider based in the United States.
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Colocation centre
A colocation centre (also spelled co-location, or colo) or "carrier hotel", is a type of data centre where equipment, space, and bandwidth are available for rental to retail customers.
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Computer network
A computer network, or data network, is a digital telecommunications network which allows nodes to share resources.
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Contract
A contract is a promise or set of promises that are legally enforceable and, if violated, allow the injured party access to legal remedies.
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Data center
A data center (American English) or data centre (Commonwealth English) is a facility used to house computer systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems.
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Data link layer
The data link layer, or layer 2, is the second layer of the seven-layer OSI model of computer networking.
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Data-rate units
In telecommunications, data-transfer rate is the average number of bits (bitrate), characters or symbols (baudrate), or data blocks per unit time passing through a communication link in a data-transmission system.
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Default-free zone
In the context of Internet routing, the default-free zone (DFZ) refers to the collection of all Internet autonomous systems (AS) that do not require a default route to route a packet to any destination.
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Deutscher Commercial Internet Exchange
Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (German Commercial Internet Exchange) (DE-CIX) is a carrier and data center-neutral internet exchange point (IXP) situated in Frankfurt (Germany).
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Dot-com bubble
The dot-com bubble (also known as the dot-com boom, the dot-com crash, the Y2K crash, the Y2K bubble, the tech bubble, the Internet bubble, the dot-com collapse, and the information technology bubble) was a historic economic bubble and period of excessive speculation that occurred roughly from 1997 to 2001, a period of extreme growth in the usage and adaptation of the Internet.
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Doughnut
A doughnut or donut (both: or; see etymology section) is a type of fried dough confection or dessert food.
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Equinix
Equinix, Inc. is an American multinational company headquartered in Redwood City, California, that specializes in internet connection and related services.
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Ethernet
Ethernet is a family of computer networking technologies commonly used in local area networks (LAN), metropolitan area networks (MAN) and wide area networks (WAN).
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Exodus Communications
Exodus Communications was an Internet hosting service and Internet service provider to dot-com businesses.
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Federal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States government created by statute (and) to regulate interstate communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable.
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Fiber Distributed Data Interface
Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) is a standard for data transmission in a local area network.
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Free (ISP)
Free is a French telecommunications company, subsidiary of Iliad that provides voice, video, data, and Internet telecommunications to consumers in France.
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Gentlemen's agreement
A gentlemen's agreement or gentleman's agreement is an informal and legally non-binding agreement between two or more parties.
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Gigabit Ethernet
In computer networking, Gigabit Ethernet (GbE or 1 GigE) is a term describing various technologies for transmitting Ethernet frames at a rate of a gigabit per second (1,000,000,000 bits per second), as defined by the IEEE 802.3-2008 standard.
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Heinz Heise
Heinz Heise is a publishing house based in Hanover, Germany.
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Hot-potato and cold-potato routing
In commercial network routing between autonomous systems which are interconnected in multiple locations, hot-potato routing is the practice of passing traffic off to another autonomous system as quickly as possible, thus using their network for wide-area transit.
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InfoWorld
InfoWorld (formerly The Intelligent Machines Journal) is an information technology media business.
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Interconnect agreement
An interconnect agreement is a business contract between telecommunications organizations for the purpose of interconnecting their networks and exchanging telecommunications traffic.
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Interior gateway protocol
An interior gateway protocol (IGP) is a type of protocol used for exchanging routing information between gateways (commonly routers) within an autonomous system (for example, a system of corporate local area networks).
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Internet
The Internet is the global system of interconnected computer networks that use the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link devices worldwide.
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Internet exchange point
An Internet exchange point (IX or IXP) is the physical infrastructure through which Internet service providers (ISPs) and content delivery networks (CDNs) exchange Internet traffic between their networks (autonomous systems).
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Internet traffic engineering
Internet traffic engineering is defined as that aspect of Internet network engineering dealing with the issue of performance evaluation and performance optimization of operational IP networks.
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Internet transit
Internet transit is the service of allowing network traffic to cross or "transit" a computer network, usually used to connect a smaller Internet service provider (ISP) to the larger Internet.
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IP address
An Internet Protocol address (IP address) is a numerical label assigned to each device connected to a computer network that uses the Internet Protocol for communication.
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Japan Network Access Point
The Japan Network Access Point (JPNAP) is an Internet Exchange Point situated in Tokyo and Osaka, Japan.
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Latency (engineering)
Latency is a time interval between the stimulation and response, or, from a more general point of view, a time delay between the cause and the effect of some physical change in the system being observed.
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Level 3 Communications
Level 3 Communications was an American multinational telecommunications and Internet service provider company headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado.
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Linuxfr
LinuxFr, also known as DLFP or Da Linux French Page is a Slashdot-like, French-speaking technology website.
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LONAP
London Network Access Point (LONAP) is a London-based Internet exchange point (IXP) founded in 1997 as a membership organisation and currently has around 187 members, making it the second largest IXP in the UK and around the 15th largest IXP in the world by membership.
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London Internet Exchange
The London Internet Exchange ("LINX") is a mutually governed Internet exchange point (IXP) that provides peering services and public policy representation to over 500 Internet service providers (ISPs) and other network operators.
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London Internet Providers Exchange
LIPEX has now closed down and is no longer active. The London Internet Providers EXchange ("LIPEX") is an Internet Exchange Point situated in London.
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Looking Glass server
Looking Glass servers are computers on the Internet running one of a variety of publicly available Looking Glass software implementations.
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MAE-East
MAE-East was an Internet Exchange Point spread across the east coast of the United States, with locations in Vienna, Virginia; Reston, Virginia; Ashburn, Virginia; New York, New York; and Miami, Florida.
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MCI Inc.
MCI, Inc. (d/b/a Verizon Business) was an American telecommunication corporation, currently a subsidiary of Verizon Communications, with its main office in Ashburn, Virginia.
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Moscow Internet Exchange
MSK-IX (Moscow Internet eXchange) is an Internet eXchange Point (IXP) with headquarters in Moscow, Russia.
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NAP of the Americas
Network Access Point (NAP) of the Americas (also called MI1) is a massive, six-story, 750,000 square foot data center and Internet exchange point in Miami, Florida, operated by Equinix.
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National Science Foundation Network
The National Science Foundation Network (NSFNET) was a program of coordinated, evolving projects sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) beginning in 1985 to promote advanced research and education networking in the United States.
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Net neutrality
Net neutrality is the principle that Internet service providers treat all data on the Internet equally, and not discriminate or charge differently by user, content, website, platform, application, type of attached equipment, or method of communication.
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Network access point
A Network Access Point (NAP) was a public network exchange facility where Internet service providers (ISPs) connected with one another in peering arrangements.
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Network congestion
Network congestion in data networking and queueing theory is the reduced quality of service that occurs when a network node or link is carrying more data than it can handle.
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North American Network Operators' Group
The North American Network Operators' Group (NANOG) is an educational and operational forum for the coordination and dissemination of technical information related to backbone/enterprise networking technologies and operational practices.
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Oligopoly
An oligopoly (from Ancient Greek ὀλίγος (olígos) "few" + πωλεῖν (polein) "to sell") is a market form wherein a market or industry is dominated by a small number of large sellers (oligopolists).
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Optical Carrier transmission rates
Optical Carrier transmission rates are a standardized set of specifications of transmission bandwidth for digital signals that can be carried on Synchronous Optical Networking (SONET) fiber optic networks.
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Orange S.A.
Orange S.A., formerly France Télécom S.A., is a French multinational telecommunications corporation.
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OVH
OVH is a French cloud computing company that offers VPS, dedicated servers and other web services.
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Packet Clearing House
Packet Clearing House or PCH is the international organization responsible for providing operational support and security to critical Internet infrastructure, including Internet exchange points and the core of the domain name system.
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Packet loss
Packet loss occurs when one or more packets of data travelling across a computer network fail to reach their destination.
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PC World
PC World, stylized PCWorld, is a global computer magazine published monthly by IDG.
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PSINet
PSINet, based in Northern Virginia, was one of the first commercial Internet service providers (ISPs) and was involved in the commercialization of the Internet until the company's bankruptcy in 2001 during the dot-com bubble and acquisition by Cogent Communications in 2002.
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Route server
A route server is a computer server that was originally developed by the Routing Arbiter project, with funding from the National Science Foundation.
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Routing
Routing is the process of selecting a path for traffic in a network, or between or across multiple networks.
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Settlement (finance)
Settlement of securities is a business process whereby securities or interests in securities are delivered, usually against (in simultaneous exchange for) payment of money, to fulfill contractual obligations, such as those arising under securities trades.
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SFR
SFR (Société française du radiotéléphone) is a French telecommunications company that provides voice, video, data, and Internet telecommunications and professional services to consumers and businesses.
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Slate (magazine)
Slate is an online magazine that covers current affairs, politics, and culture in the United States from a liberal perspective.
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Sprint Corporation
Sprint Corporation is an American telecommunications company that provides wireless services and is an internet service provider.
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Synchronous optical networking
Synchronous optical networking (SONET) and synchronous digital hierarchy (SDH) are standardized protocols that transfer multiple digital bit streams synchronously over optical fiber using lasers or highly coherent light from light-emitting diodes (LEDs).
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Telecommunication
Telecommunication is the transmission of signs, signals, messages, words, writings, images and sounds or information of any nature by wire, radio, optical or other electromagnetic systems.
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Telephone
A telephone, or phone, is a telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be heard directly.
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Telia Company
Telia Company AB is a Swedish dominant telephone company and mobile network operator present in Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark and Baltic States.
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The Washington Post
The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper founded on December 6, 1877.
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Tier 1 network
A Tier 1 network is an Internet Protocol (IP) network that can reach every other network on the Internet solely via settlement-free interconnection, also known as settlement-free peering.
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Toroid
In mathematics, a toroid is a surface of revolution with a hole in the middle, like a doughnut, forming a solid body.
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Tysons, Virginia
Tysons, also known as Tysons Corner, is a census-designated place (CDP) and unincorporated community in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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United States Department of Justice
The United States Department of Justice (DOJ), also known as the Justice Department, is a federal executive department of the U.S. government, responsible for the enforcement of the law and administration of justice in the United States, equivalent to the justice or interior ministries of other countries. The department was formed in 1870 during the Ulysses S. Grant administration. The Department of Justice administers several federal law enforcement agencies including the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). The department is responsible for investigating instances of financial fraud, representing the United States government in legal matters (such as in cases before the Supreme Court), and running the federal prison system. The department is also responsible for reviewing the conduct of local law enforcement as directed by the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994. The department is headed by the United States Attorney General, who is nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate and is a member of the Cabinet. The current Attorney General is Jeff Sessions.
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Vendor-neutral data centre
Vendor neutrality in the data centre market refers to a specialised and focused business model, in which a data centre provider limits its activities to a fixed set of value layers in order to avoid conflicts of interest.
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Virginia
Virginia (officially the Commonwealth of Virginia) is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States located between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains.
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VSNL International Canada
VSNL International Canada or Tata Communications (Canada) ULC (formerly Teleglobe) is an international telco carrier.
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XO Communications
XO Communications (previously Nextlink Communications, Concentric Network Corporation and Allegiance Telecom, Inc. is a telecommunications company owned by XO Holdings, Inc (OTCBB: XOHO). XO provides managed and converged Internet Protocol (IP) network services for small and medium-sized enterprises. XO delivers services through a mix of fiber-based Ethernet and Ethernet over Copper (EoC). In addition, the company has external network-to-network interface (E-NNI) agreements with traditional carriers and cable companies.
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YouTube
YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California.
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100 Gigabit Ethernet
40 Gigabit Ethernet (40GbE) and 100 Gigabit Ethernet (100GbE) are groups of computer networking technologies for transmitting Ethernet frames at rates of 40 and 100 gigabits per second (Gbit/s), respectively.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peering