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Internet Backbone Suffers Suspected Attack
News There are signs that hackers attacked key parts of the backbone of the internet on Tuesday, but no damage seems to have been done, experts said. The attack appears to have focused on the Domain Name System (DNS), which maps text-based domain names...
[February 7, 2007, 13:31]
Internet Can Be Upgraded 'without Boosting Backbone'
News Akamai chief scientist Tom Leighton says performance of the Internet can be improved without adding any new backbone capacity. Speaking in Sydney, where he today addressed the Fifth International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics...
[July 7, 2003, 10:26]
IP QoS Support In The Internet Backbone
White Papers s IP QoS strategy, which positions DiffServ in the backbone, while IntServ can potentially be deployed at the customer premises and in the access part of the network at the scale of corporate or campus networks.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Competition In The Internet Backbone Market
White Papers This paper presents a competitive assessment of the global market for the provision of universal Internet connectivity (backbone market). The main argument is for a restless evolution of the structure of the market, whereby an highly concentrated...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
New Shield Repelled Internet Backbone Attack
News An attack in early February on key parts of the backbone of the internet had little effect, thanks to new protection technology, according to a report released this week. The distributed denial-of-service attack on the Domain Name System (DNS...
[March 12, 2007, 8:24]
Web Infrastructure - The Internet Backbone
White Papers To simplify the web infrastructure we will look at three fairly defined and specific areas and focus primarily on the Internet backbone. The subject of web infrastructure is fairly broad and encompasses all aspects of what it takes for the transfer...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Small-Time Scaling Behaviors Of Internet Backbone Traffic: An Empirical Study
White Papers This paper studies the small-time (sub-seconds) scaling behaviors of Internet backbone traffic, based on traces collected from OC3/12/48 links in a tier-1 ISP. The objective of the paper is to understand the potential causes or factors that...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Profiling Internet Backbone Traffic: Behavior Models And Applications
White Papers This paper presents a general methodology for building comprehensive behavior profiles of Internet backbone traffic in terms of communication patterns of end-hosts and services. Recent spates of cyber-attacks and frequent emergence of applications...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Modeling Internet Backbone Traffic At The Flow Level
White Papers This paper proposes a traffic model for uncongested backbone links that is simple enough to be used in network operation and engineering. Modeling the Internet traffic is an important issue. The successful evolution of the Internet is tightly...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Impact Of Aggregation On Scaling Behavior Of Internet Backbone Traffic
White Papers This paper studies the impact of aggregation on the scaling behavior of Internet backbone traffic, based on traces collected from OC3 and OC12 links in a tier-1 ISP. Scaling behaviors of the Internet traffic have a significant impact on network...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
The Need For Flexible Bandwidth In The Internet Backbone, From Net Forecast
White Papers This is good news for all links in the Internet supply chain, from backbone carriers to local exchange carriers, to value added service providers, and ultimately to end-users. Backbone carriers are in an unenviable position.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
IP QoS In The Internet Backbone
White Papers Today’s Internet applies best effort (BE) IP forwarding. This paper reviews the two IP QoS architectures considered by the IETF, namely IntServ and DiffServ. The network attempts to deliver all traffic as soon as possible within the limits of its...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Long-Term Forecasting Of Internet Backbone Traffic: Observations And Initial Models
White Papers The capacity planning theory for traditional telecommunication networks is a well explored area, which has limited applicability in a packet-based network such as the Internet. IP network capacity planning is a very important task that has received...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
The Sprint Position On Internet Quality Of Service In The Sprint IP Backbone Network
White Papers The market challenge for today's Internet service providers is how to best provide high network efficiencies, new enabling technologies and lower cost in an environment of decreasing profit margins and increasing competition.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Internet Backbone Provider
White Papers More over, network service providers that started out as pure Internet access or online services players found that the new technology, that often used computer-to telephone or computer-to-computer calling scenarios, enabled them to convert...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
On Internet Backbone Traffic Modeling
White Papers Currently, network operators have very basic information about the traffic. They mostly use SNMP, which provides average throughput information over 5 minutes intervals. An analytical model can provide more accurate information on the traffic such...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Internet Peering Solutions For Backbone Carriers
White Papers Peering concepts are the abstract and invisible foundation for the service level agreements (SLAs) that service providers negotiate with their customers. State- of- the- art solutions based on Alcatel's ALMA Vision Assurance service assurance...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Abilene Update: Upgrade Of Qwest's High-Speed Fiber-Optic Backbone Empowers Cutting-Edge Network To Do Even More
White Papers The Abilene Network is an appropriate name for an innovative high-performance network backbone that supports Internet2 and enables development of advanced Internet applications. Established nearly six years ago, Abilene's Internet backbone is...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
The Day Ahead: Genuity's Big Float Sinks Shares
News Genuity, the Internet backbone spin-off from Verizon, raises $1.9bn in the largest Internet IPO and flops on its first day. The Internet backbone company also recently inked a pact with Hewlett-Packard, which will sell Genuity hosting as part of an...
[August 2, 2000, 13:05]
Challenges And Opportunities Of Connectivity Services
White Papers The promise of the next generation network (NGN) is driving backbone carriers (whose networks form the Internet infrastructure) to evolve the Internet into a reliable, truly multiservice network that can support a multitude of different...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
