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whitepaper Targeted Interactive Advertising: A Killer Revenue App2009-04-24 Alcatel-Lucent
  As the communications industry evolves from a network-centric view of the world to a user-oriented perspective, service providers are transforming their business models to create new revenue opportunities associated with enhanced content and interactive media platforms. This white paper explores the opportunities that exist for service providers as they shift how value is created, managed and monetized in their networks to take advantage of next-generation advertising models.   
whitepaper Dynamic and Auto Responsive Solution for Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks Detection in ISP Network2009-04-01
  Denial of Service (DoS) attacks and more particularly the distributed ones (DDoS) are one of the latest threat and pose a grave danger to users, organizations and infrastructures of the Internet. Several schemes have been proposed on how to detect some of these attacks, but they suffer from a range of problems, some of them being impractical and others not being effective against these attacks. This paper reports the design principles and evaluation results of proposed framework that autonomously detects and accurately characterizes a wide range of flooding DDoS attacks in ISP network. Attacks are detected by the constant monitoring of propagation of abrupt traffic changes inside ISP network.

Tags: Intrusion - Tampering		   
whitepaper Application Security Market Trends for Service Providers: Security Approaches for Business-Critical Applications and Data in Today's Evolving Threat Landscape2009-03-01 Cisco Systems
  The protection of the applications and data that drive business processes and transactions is critical for ensuring business availability, employee productivity, revenue loss avoidance, and brand and corporate reputation protection. As the miscreant economy spreads across all sectors of the economy and threats increase in sophistication and complexity, the protection of missioncritical business assets, applications, data, and processes has become ever more essential. To help service provider security-portfolio managers address these requirements within their customer base, this paper presents an overview of the current trends in the application security market, important drivers and inhibitors of application security, the evolving market landscape, and service provider delivery models for application security solutions.

Tags: Security Administration		   
whitepaper Overcoming ISP Network Challenges2009-02-10
  Organizations continue to battle problems related to delivering high-performing, continuous uptime and high-availability for applications such as VoIP, Outlook Web Access, VPN, Web Portals, and others, putting increased stress upon ISP links. An affordable approach to address these issues is the use of multi-homed connections to aggregate multiple low-cost ISP links. This approach avoids the high costs and complexity of using a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) solution. Critical applications that had previously been hosted at home offices are now being accessed over the WAN, creating new concerns over reliable and secure access, along with how to assign appropriate and cost-effective bandwidth allocation. WAN connectivity failures and traffic congestion have become common problems that impact these business-critical applications.

Tags: Internet and Web		   
whitepaper 10 Reasons You Should Consider Dedicated Web Hosting2009-02-03
  Download Web Hosting Unleashed's "10 Reasons You Should Consider Dedicated Web Hosting" to learn:
  • When to move up from shared to dedicated Web hosting
  • The fine, blurred line between dedicated and managed Web hosting
  • The security and business continuity advantages of dedicated Web hosting
  • What the host provides and what you provide in a dedicated Web hosting arrangement
  • Where the cost savings come from in a dedicated Web hosting arrangement


Tags: Internet and Web, Software Development Tools, Server Platforms - OS, IT Budgeting, IT Budgeting, IT Budgeting, IT Infrastructure		   
whitepaper Traffic Matrix Reloaded: Impact of Routing Changes2009-01-01 University of California
  A traffic matrix represents the load from each ingress point to each egress point in an IP network. Although networks are engineered to tolerate some variation in the traffic matrix, large changes can lead to congested links and poor performance. The variations in the traffic matrix are caused by statistical fluctuations in the traffic entering the network and shifts in where the traffic leaves the network. For an accurate view of how the traffic matrix evolves over time, they combine fine-grained traffic measurements with a continuous view of routing, including changes in the egress points. Analyzing seven months of data from eight vantage points in a large Internet Service Provider (ISP) network, they show that routing changes are responsible for the majority of the large traffic variations.

Tags: Internet and Web		   
whitepaper The Case Against Free ISP DNS2008-11-18 Dynamic Network Services
  ISPs provide pipe services, Internet connectivity. They have set up their business to ensure they can carry packets across their network. That's what they lead with when they are out making a sale. Sometimes they happen to offer other ancillary services that they cannot bill, but these services, like DNS, are not specialties or areas of expertise. They are theoretical value-adds. As a network operator, providing a highly available service such as DNS is not their core competency. Managed services like DNS are different from network engineering. While network services require their own expertise with routers and switching, this expertise rarely translates to expertise in services like DNS.

Tags: Network Management		   
whitepaper Superhighway at the Crossroads: The Evolution of Internet Service Provision2008-09-01 Quocirca
  The internet has grown rapidly from a random collection of mainly academic networks and military control and routing protocols into a global, integrated and sophisticated commercial utility. No longer simply an 'Information Superhighway', it has extended to embrace voice telephony, video and mobile communications as part of a converged network. Connection options and services have expanded, with opportunities for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to add value beyond simply forwarding bit and bytes. This paper explores the challenges and opportunities these companies face and takes a look at how their industry might evolve.

Tags: Mobile and Wireless		   
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 IT Analysis - Are SMBs Getting Enough?2008-06-16 Quocirca
  There is plenty of 'Hubbub' in many countries around whether customers are getting the broadband speeds advertised by their Internet Service Providers (ISPs), highlighted again most recently in the UK with a series of populist news items. A new code of conduct from the UK's telco and media regulator, Ofcom, aims to stop what many believe are an attempt by the industry to mislead customers. Now it is fair to wrap the industry's collective knuckles to stop "Up to 8MB/s" claims, when many customers are so far from the telephone exchange that the reality is the best they'll achieve is 2MB/s - far better to let the customer know what they can expect.

Tags: Network Technologies, Internet and Web