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Google and OpenDNS try to speed up the internet

...Google, OpenDNS and various content delivery networks have formed the Global Internet Speedup initiative, a project aimed at helping web pages load faster... Read more

31 August, 2011 by David Meyer
Cisco <endeca_term>Global Internet</endeca_term> Speed Test (GIST) 3.0

Cisco Global Internet Speed Test (GIST) 3.0

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10 September, 2011
Multipath Routing, Congestion Avoidance and DDoS Resistance

Multipath Routing, Congestion Avoidance and DDoS Resistance

In open networks, especially in the global Internet consisting of thousands of independent sub-networks with different policies, a... Read more

2 December, 2010
Alcatel-Lucent shows off undersea cable ship

Alcatel-Lucent shows off undersea cable ship

...the ship, and have a look at a vital part of the global internet that's normally hidden by miles of water. The Ile de... Read more

27 August, 2010 by David Meyer

SOPA: Cheat Sheet

...reduces freedom of expression, increases cybersecurity risk, or undermines the dynamic, innovative global internet," said Victoria Espinel, intellectual property enforcement coordinator at Office of Management... Read more

20 January, 2012 by Natasha Lomas

SOPA anti-piracy bill stalls after DNS blow

...reduces freedom of expression, increases cybersecurity risk, or undermines the dynamic, innovative global internet". "Across the globe, the openness of the internet is increasingly central... Read more

16 January, 2012

Global outage takes down sites and services across the internet

Router problem blamed... A global internet outage took down sites and services across the web on Monday... Read more

7 November, 2011 by Nick Heath
London 2012 needs IPv6 at the starting gun

London 2012 needs IPv6 at the starting gun

...one on IPv6. This division would have a dramatic impact on the global internet economy and business and consumers. The Beijing games left a mark... Read more

4 September, 2011 by Axel Pawlik
Stop the data-roaming madness

Stop the data-roaming madness

...many decades of regulatory pressure and, in the end, the flat-rate global internet to break that monopolistic exploitation. The same thinking lives on, however... Read more

29 March, 2011 by Leader

IE's market share rises on changes to CIA data

...popular in (Western European, in particular) now have a lower percentage of global internet users. Internet Explorer gains as browser usage shifts to countries with... Read more

1 March, 2011

US proposes veto power over new domain names

...the DNS and undermines the goal of universal resolvability (ie, a single global internet that facilitates the free flow of goods and services and freedom... Read more

8 February, 2011 by Declan McCullagh

Ripe NCC introduces IP certification

...Global internet disruption caused by traffic misrouting will be cut down by certification... Read more

5 January, 2011 by Tom Espiner

World's internet population to pass 2bn, says report

...Having doubled over the past five years, the global internet population is now set to pass the 2-billion mark this... Read more

21 October, 2010 by Tyler Thia

Facebook outage due to internal errors, says company

...allow the databases to recover." Network analyst company Arbor Networks, which collates global internet statistics from 80 ISPs, reported that Facebook traffic fell from 60Gbps... Read more

26 September, 2010 by Rupert Goodwins

Brocade increases blade port density

...In its annual Visual Networking Index, released on Wednesday, Cisco predicted that global internet traffic will more than quadruple by 2014, driven by increases in... Read more

7 June, 2010 by Matthew Broersma

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