Five years ago, U.S. and European antitrust watchdogs blocked the merger of MCI and Sprint for fear their combined backbone would have such a dominant share of Internet traffic that it could force ...
The diversified range of new products being built and provided by Google now make the company accountable for nearly 25 percent of all Internet traffic, up from a mere 6 percent just three years ago, ...
The internet wasn’t born whole—it came together from parts. Most know of ARPANET, the internet’s most famous precursor, but it was always limited strictly to government use. It was NSFNET that brought ...
It’s official: The carriers are not making money operating Internet backbones. Why should you care? Because defying the laws of economics is a bit like defying the law of gravity — it appears to work ...
If the Internet sky is falling as a result of WorldCom's bankruptcy and other networks' woes, AT&T doesn't believe it. The company is on the warpath, aiming to assure the market that even if ...
The distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack launched Monday against all 13 of the Internet domain name system (DNS) root servers failed to bring down the Internet, but that doesn’t mean that more ...
The latest Global Internet Geography report from telecommunications market research and consulting firm TeleGeography has revealed that after the massive surge in bandwidth and usage driven by the ...
Rumors of Russian Internet services degrading have been greatly exaggerated, despite unprecedented announcements recently from two of the world’s biggest backbone providers that they were exiting the ...
The Internet withstood what appears to have been a major assault on its core infrastructure late Monday when all 13 of its root servers were attacked, according to a spokesman for VeriSign Inc., which ...