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Israeli researchers map the Internet, 06/26/07: Israeli researchers have created a topographical map of the Internet by enlisting volunteers across 97 countries who agreed to download a program that tracks how Internet nodes interact.
DOJ, telecom reach settlement on cable competition, 06/25/07: A telecommunications carrier cannot enforce agreements with two cable television carriers that prevent them from offering competing voice services in parts of Pennsylvania, according to a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice.
Don’t assume application performance problems are always network-related, 06/26/07: As noted in the last newsletter, the Mean Time to Repair (MTTR) of application performance issues can be quite lengthy. One of the …
ICANN to tackle transparency, top-level domains, in meeting, 06/25/07: The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers opened a week-long meeting on Monday where it will address critical issues like new generic top-level domains, internationalized domain names and the organization’s efforts to become more …
State, local gov’t groups oppose permanent ‘Net tax ban, 06/21/07: The U.S. Congress shouldn’t permanently extend a moratorium on taxes unique to the Internet because the temporary ban keeps Internet providers from abusing the system, a representative of the National Governors Association said Thursday.
Fanfare works behind the scenes to improve carrier nets, 06/20/07: Fanfare doesn’t make the networking devices that service providers use on their next-generation networks. It makes those networking devices better.
