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whitepaper Interconnecting Eyeballs to Content: A Shapley Value Perspective on ISP Peering and Settlement2008-08-22 Association for Computing Machinery
  Internet Service Providers (ISPs) must interconnect to provide global Internet connectivity to users. The payment structure of these interconnections are often negotiated and maintained via bilateral agreements. Current differences of opinion in the appropriate revenue model in the Internet have on occasion caused ISPs to de-peer from one another, hindering network connectivity and availability. The previous work demonstrates that the Shapley value has several desirable properties, and that if applied as the revenue model, selfish ISPs would yield globally optimal routing and interconnecting decisions. This paper focuses the investigation of Shapley value in networks with two basic classes of ISP: content and eyeball.   
whitepaper The Flattening Internet Topology: Natural Evolution, Unsightly Barnacles or Contrived Collapse?2008-05-21 Hewlett-Packard
  This paper collects and analyzes traceroute measurements to show that large content providers (e.g., Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!) are deploying their own wide-area networks, bringing their networks closer to users, and bypassing Tier-1 ISPs on many paths. This trend, should it continue and be adopted by more content providers, could flatten the Internet topology, and may result in numerous other consequences to users, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), content providers, and network researchers.

Tags: Web Content Management, ISPs		   
whitepaper Uncovering Performance Differences Among Backbone ISPs With Netdiff2008-02-25 Princeton University
  This paper designs and implements Netdiff, a system that enables detailed performance comparisons among ISP networks. It helps customers and applications determine, for instance, which ISP offers the best performance for their specific workload. Netdiff is easy to deploy because it requires only a modest number of nodes and does not require active cooperation from ISPs. Realizing such a system, however, is challenging as one must aggressively reduce probing cost and ensure that the results are robust to measurement noise. The paper describes the techniques that Netdiff uses to address these challenges. Netdiff has been measuring eighteen backbone ISPs since February 2007. Its techniques allow it to capture an accurate view of an ISP's performance in terms of latency within fifteen minutes.   
whitepaper Change Your ISP e-Mail Account Information2007-12-01 Microsoft
  When the user or their Internet Service Provider (ISP) changes the e-mail account password, e-mail address, or e-mail server address, the user must change their account information in. To help keep the system secure, one should regularly change the password. Use strong passwords that combine uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, and symbols. Weak passwords don't mix these elements. Strong password: Y6dh!et5. Weak password: House27. Passwords should be 8 or more characters in length. A pass phrase that uses 14 or more characters is better.

Tags: Email, E-Mail Client		   
whitepaper Internet Industry - Case Study on Internet Money Makers0000-00-00 SlideShare
  This presentation provides an overview of the Internet Industry.   
whitepaper Innovation Fuels Partner Collaboration: Digitel & Cistera Collaborate for Solution Success2007-09-12 Cisco Systems
  Cisco channel partner, Digitel and UC enterprise application provider, Cistera, team through Cisco ISPN to deliver more valuable solutions to two customers, the city of Smyrna, GA and Opelika, AL.   
whitepaper Competitive Effects of Network Externalities on Interconnection Incentives of ISPs2007-09-05 University of Freiburg
  The Internet is a classical example for a network good. Network goods not only offer utility from a so-called technology effect (resulting from the technological characteristics of the network the user is connected to), but also from a so-called network effect (resulting from the number of people reachable via the network). A strong technology effect, in combination with heterogeneity in consumer tastes, allows providers of network goods to differentiate their products and compete also with different network sizes. When the network effect is sufficiently strong and consumer valuation of a large customer base accordingly high, the question becomes whether competition in the market is hindered by the presence of network externalities such that the largest network can monopolize the market.   
whitepaper Risk Mitigation: A Strategy for Reducing Risk Through a Single-Vendor Integrated Network2007-09-01 Cisco Systems
  With the increased reliance on the network for application support, enterprise customers are increasingly focused on the availability of the network. While there are considerations to building a diverse vendor environment, highly available single-vendor architecture is readily achievable. A single-vendor environment also allows the customer to use the network more effectively, by reducing operational expenses as well as providing a foundation for adoption of innovation. This paper discusses the advantages of a single-vendor architecture and review whether a vendor can provide high availability for the entire network architecture.

Tags: ISPs, Network Administration		   
whitepaper Migrating Simple Data Over Cable Services to DOCSIS 1.12007-08-03 Cisco Systems
  The Data-Over-Cable Service Interface Specifications (DOCSIS) 1.1 standard gives cable service providers the opportunity to deploy a whole new suite of sophisticated multimedia and real-time services. Before these services can be deployed, it is important that current data services are able to be migrated from a DOCSIS 1.0 operating environment to a DOCSIS 1.1 operating environment. This paper describes how to convert a functional DOCSIS 1.0 system to a DOCSIS 1.1 and DOCSIS 1.0 hybrid system, and finally, to a totally DOCSIS 1.1?based system. It also discusses commonly used Cisco IOS software commands that have been modified, enhanced, or replaced in DOCSIS 1.1?enabled Cisco IOS software.

Tags: Multimedia, Cable		   
whitepaper The Shapley Value Mechanism for ISP Settlement2007-07-06 Columbia University
  Within the current Internet, autonomous ISPs implement bilateral agreements, with each ISP establishing agreements that suit its own local objective to maximize its profit. Peering agreements based on local views and bilateral settlements, while expedient, encourage selfish routing strategies and discriminatory interconnections. From a more global perspective, such settlements reduce aggregate profits, limit the stability of routes, and discourage potentially useful peering/ connectivity arrangements, thereby unnecessarily balkanizing the Internet. The paper shows that if the distribution of profits is enforced at a global level, then there exist profit-sharing mechanisms derived from the Shapley value and its extensions that will encourage these selfish ISPs who seek to maximize their own profits to converge to a Nash equilibrium.   


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