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Illegal file-sharing: Gov't says enough is enough

News Although the government has a preference for voluntary action by ISPs to crack down on illegal file sharing, it has warned it will turn to statutory regulation if no solution is found by April 2009. The government said it supports discussions...

Tags: download, file sharing, broadband, illegal

[22 Feb 2008]

Legal Eye: Is it wise to hit ISPs over file-sharing?

Comment Politicians are threatening ISPs with penalties if illegal downloading doesn't stop. But legal liability cannot rest solely on ISPs' shoulders, argues lawyer Simon Levine. Certainly, ISPs should discourage illegal activities - and indeed should...

Tags: law, isps, downloads, piracy

[22 Feb 2008]

Lightweight Email Signatures

whitepaper Importantly, LES supports common uses of email that DKIM jeopardizes: multiple email personalities firewalled ISPs, incoming-only email forwarding services, and other common uses that often require sending email via a thirdparty SMTP server.

Tags: digital signatures

[19 Feb 2008]

HelpCaster Technologies Enables Service Providers With IP Communications Platform

whitepaper Telco's, ISPs and ASPs everywhere are seeking new ways to enter the Web 2.0 market, generate new revenue streams and differentiate themselves from their competition. At the same time, these companies are also trying to reduce customer churn and to...

Tags: middleware

[08 Feb 2008]

iPlayer: Download version coming to Macs

News Find out what UK ISPs and Ofcom think of iPlayer here. The download version of the BBC's iPlayer will be available for Mac users by the end of the year, according to director general, Mark Thompson. Thompson made the commitment in a blog posting...

Tags: bbc, online, firefox, iplayer

[08 Feb 2008]

Internet Service Provider Networks: Simplifying POP Architectures

whitepaper ISPs will need to continue to expand the capacity of their networks while at the same time responding to a number of competitive pressures, including: controlling costs delivering higher reliability offering an attractive mix of broadband access...

Tags: tcp - ip

[07 Feb 2008]

Stories of the month - January 2008

News The BBC's online on-demand iPlayer for watching TV on the web had a good Christmas with 3.5 million hits but this sparked a debate about whether ISPs can cope with the increased bandwidth consumption, with speculation that content providers such...

Tags: cv, bill gates, shell, apple

[30 Jan 2008]

Internet Exchanges: Moving to 10 Gigabit Ethernet

whitepaper Internet Exchanges (IX points, or IXs), sometimes also known as Network Access Points (NAPs) or Metropolitan Area Exchanges (MAEs), are facilities designed expressly to simplify interconnection (BGP peering and traffic exchange) among independent...

Tags: industry standard protocols

[29 Jan 2008]

Is online TV throttling broadband networks?

News But if this is going to be a bandwidth problem does the responsibility to fund network upgrades to cope with it lie with the internet service providers (ISPs) or the content providers? But the other major UK ISPs are less concerned with this issue...

Tags: bbc, iplayer, tiscali, bandwidth

[28 Jan 2008]

Music piracy fight - ISPs must do more

News The music industry is calling for governments and internet services providers (ISPs) to do more in the fight against digital music piracy. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) is proposing that ISPs should be obliged to...

Tags: music, government, piracy, isps

[25 Jan 2008]

Development and Testing of a Carrier-Grade IMS S-CSCF

whitepaper A Tier European OEM providing voice, video, and data delivery solutions to Carriers, ISPs, and enterprises. The company wanted to develop and test a high performance IMS S-CSCF node capable of handling nearly 0.3 million Busy Hour Call Attempts...

Tags: voip - ip telephony

[14 Jan 2008]

Developing and Testing an IMS Application Server

whitepaper The company is a Tier European OEM providing voice, video, and data delivery solutions to Carriers, ISPs, and enterprises. The company wanted to develop and test a high performance IMS Application Server and integrate the Application Sever with the...

Tags: high availability

[14 Jan 2008]

Killing Botnets: A View From the Trenches

whitepaper McAfee IntruShield IPS protects telcos, Internet service providers (ISPs), enterprises, and national infrastructure. IntruShield is critical to pinpointing and disrupting botnet controlers and interrupts several phases of botnet infection in the...

Tags: infrastructure management, botnet, war, service providers

[07 Jan 2008]

Why Do ISPs Need LDAP?

whitepaper LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) is a widely used Internet Standard Protocol for accessing a directory. LDAP also defines the "Information model" of the directory being accessed. This white paper looks at why an Internet Service...

Tags: isps

[06 Jan 2008]

Isode Management Architecture: Client/Server and Directory

whitepaper Isode products are designed for service oriented environments, such as ISPs, military, government and aviation. Isode's core business is messaging and directory servers. These are environments where there are stringent management requirements.

Tags: directory services

[06 Jan 2008]

Isode's IMAP Strategy

whitepaper M-Box is available for evaluation as part of the Isode Internet Messaging Solution for ISPs. IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) is a widely implemented protocol for email clients to access messages on a server, and allows messages to be stored...

Tags: email

[06 Jan 2008]

Peer-to-Peer Behaviour Detection by TCP Flows Analysis

whitepaper So, it became important for ISPs to detect these applications. The use of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) applications is growing dramatically. It concerns applications like Gnutella, Kazaa or eDonkey. These applications sometimes represent as most as 50% of...

Tags: tcp - ip

[26 Dec 2007]

Root Cause Analysis for Long-Lived TCP Connections

whitepaper Finding out which of these factors is limiting the throughput of a TCP connection - referred to as TCP root cause analysis - is important for end users that want to understand the origins of their problems, ISPs that need to troubleshoot their...

Tags: tcp - ip

[26 Dec 2007]

Broadband speeds under scrutiny

News Ofcom is being called on to introduce a code of practice for internet service providers (ISPs) around disparities in advertised and actual broadband connection speeds. The Consumer Panel has held discussions with the UK's six leading ISPs to find...

Tags: advertising, broadband, speed, consumer

[19 Dec 2007]

Nortel Network Case Study: PPL Telcom

whitepaper PPL selected Nortel's Optical Ethernet solution to support the delivery of point-to-point Ethernet services for LAN extension and Internet access to customers in the area, including ISPs, financial service and healthcare institutions - customers...

Tags: ethernet

[18 Dec 2007]

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