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Israeli ISP Strengthens Competitiveness With Enhanced E-Mail Hosted-Messaging Solution

whitepaper Internet Service Provider (ISP) NetVision operates Nana, one of Israel's most popular portal Web sites. To meet growing competition, NetVision wanted to enhance its free e-mail service Nana Mail with new features.

Tags: email

[11 May 2008]

DIADEM Firewall: Web Server Overload Attack Detection and Response

whitepaper This paper presents the DIADEM Firewall architecture that allows an ISP to protect its customers from being the target of a DDoS attack. High-profile web servers often become the victim of web server overload Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS...

Tags: firewalls

[11 May 2008]

Tech Futures: The talkification of the web

Comment Over the past decade, as digital music, video and films have become the province of anyone with an ISP, whole industries have been transformed with each click of the mouse. The film and music industries have been turned upside down by the arrival...

Tags: internet, comms, voice

[01 May 2008]

India's high-tech cities, web whispers, Babbage's Difference engine and more...

Photo Australian ISP Telstra is installing a 9,000km undersea internet cable running between Australia and Hawaii. This month silicon.com senior reporter Nick Heath visited India to check out the high-tech goings on in Hyderabad and Chennai.

Tags: hyderabad, robots, bangalore

[29 Apr 2008]

Simulating Strategic Firewall Placement

whitepaper If an overwhelming amount of traffic is coming into the ISP and being dropped, then only the ISP can effectively filter out the attack traffic. In order to give the network more control of filtering, the firewall can be connected directly to the...

Tags: firewalls

[24 Apr 2008]

Security experts criticise Phorm

News Security experts have criticised targeted-ad company Phorm, claiming the nature of its infrastructure could increase the likelihood of successful denial-of-service attacks against its ISP customers. A browser request is first sent via a switch to a...

Tags: threat, ads, phorm

[18 Apr 2008]

Europe: Don't ban internet file-sharers

News A spokesperson for the UK ISP Association was not available for comment at the time of writing. People should not be criminalised for the file-sharing of copyrighted material if they are not profiting from doing so, the European Parliament has...

Tags: eu, isps, file sharing

[14 Apr 2008]

Phorm defends 'traffic-analysis' methods

News The company behind an ISP-based web advertising user-tracking system has denied claims what it is doing is illegal. Intercepting traffic for spam-filtering purposes or for blocking denial-of-service attacks was a different matter, Clayton added...

Tags: ripa, phorm

[11 Apr 2008]

Dear silicon.com... iPlayer vs ISPs, rip off outsourcing, social networking…

Comment This week readers are getting riled up by 'rip off' government outsourcing deals (with one reader demanding prison for the culpable scoundrel…), the latest in the BBC iPlayer vs ISP spat, and social networks clamping down on sex offenders.

Tags: isp, bbc, government, outsourcing

[10 Apr 2008]

CipherTrust IronMail Dries Up Spam Deluge for ISP

whitepaper Athenet first tried a software-only solution, used by a lot of ISP’s, which was installed on their mail servers but there was simply too much administration involved in making it suit their business. Spam had become a major concern for Athenet’s...

Tags: email, spam, anti, appliance

[10 Apr 2008]

Completel's National VPLS Service Deployment

whitepaper ParisBourse: CPT) is one of France's most influential alternative carriers and a facilities-based provider of fibre optic local access telecommunications and Internet services to business, public sector, carrier and ISP customers.

Tags: optical networking, ethernet, facilities, fibre

[10 Apr 2008]

wilhelm.tel Shoots Straight With NetEnforcer's Peer-to-Peer Control

whitepaper wilhelm.tel is a provider of cable TV, ISP and telephony services to 28,000 households in a 581 Km2 region. As an increasing number of home users opt for high-speed Internet, wilhelm.tel was facing phenomenal growth in both traffic volume and in...

Tags: optical networking, traffic, ac, tel

[10 Apr 2008]

Introduction to e-Mail Account Types

whitepaper The user can get e-mail accounts from sources such as the Internet Service Provider (ISP), one's employer, or Web services such as Yahoo! The Internet Service Provider (ISP) or mail administrator can provide the user with the configuration...

Tags: email

[08 Apr 2008]

Yo!Sushi cuts copper in favour of MPLS

News He said in a statement: "It means we no longer have to deal with BT, an ISP, a router company and so on. Fast food chain Yo! Sushi is forecasting a two-year return on investment on an MPLS (multi protocol label switching) network installed to...

Tags: bt, mpls, yo!sushi

[07 Apr 2008]

BBC hits back at ISPs over iPlayer usage

News He said doing so would mean users wouldn't know which content works well through their chosen ISP or which content is throttled due to non-payment by content providers. BBC tech chief, Ashley Highfield, has hit back at ISPs who want online...

Tags: content, highfield, bbc, iplayer

[04 Apr 2008]

IT chiefs cutting back on contractors

News Steve Clarke, director of systems and operations, at ISP AOL Broadband said: "We have significant downward pressure on contract costs but it's going to be more likely we will replace contractors with permanent heads than cutting those heads...

Tags: credit crunch, skills, contractors

[28 Mar 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: The one-box generation

Comment I'd put my money on human stupidity taking over and a PC viewer witch-hunt being declared, along with ISP controls to stop it all and preserve the sacred cow of old. When I was a child there was no television.

Tags: television, revenue, radio, broadcast

[26 Mar 2008]

Police e-crime funding set for green light?

Police e-crime funding set for green light?

News It will be police officers working in partnership with industry so we all benefit from sharing our knowledge - you will have cops sat next to ISP employees, sat next to somebody from the banking system.

Tags: cyber crime, nhtcu, e-crime, campaign

[12 Mar 2008]

Cheat Sheet: BBC iPlayer

Cheat Sheet Although these fears seem exaggerated at the moment, industry regulator Ofcom has said there is the possibility that the ISP-content provider business model may need to change in the future to fund the huge growth in digital content.

Tags: isp, online, on demand, iplayer

[05 Mar 2008]

Growing Internet Service Provider (ISP) Is Able to Boast Their Usage of HP ProLiant Servers to Gain New Clients

whitepaper opus:interactive's needed an IT partner that would not only provide reliable equipment and service, but also provide flexibility, scalability, and rapid deployment when adding additional hardware and memory.opus:interactive provides Managed...

Tags: blades

[04 Mar 2008]

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