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Virgin Media to ramp up capacity on core network

News The trend for online video content and popular bandwidth-heavy apps - such as the BBC's iPlayer - has led to concerns among ISPs their infrastructure will soon be creaking under the strain. As web users' thirst for bandwidth soars, cable broadband...

Tags: fibre, nortel, bandwidth, broadband

[09 May 2008]

Carphone Warehouse plans broadband boost

News Bandwidth-draining apps such as the BBC iPlayer may also be causing ISPs to scratch their heads over their broadband strategies, he added. He added: "In the longer term what's going to happen is that at some point the UK ISPs will decide to invest...

Tags: talktalk, broadband, carphone warehouse

[09 May 2008]

iPlayer loses its Virgin-ity

News Its popularity has also raised concerns from ISPs who feel the explosion in online content could overload their networks. The BBC iPlayer is now available on Virgin Media's cable service, further expanding the availability of the on-demand TV...

Tags: platform, cable, virgin media, bbc

[30 Apr 2008]

Computer classics, Vista uptake, iPhone price cuts and Heathrow T5...

News BBC hits back at ISPs over iPlayer usage It was time for some tech nostalgia during April with the Sinclair ZX spectrum crowned the most popular first home computer by silicon.com readers. Check out where your favourite golden oldies came in the...

Tags: jobs, vista, iphone, heathrow

[28 Apr 2008]

Warning: Web will run out of space by 2010

News Net neutrality refers to an ongoing campaign calling for governments to legislate to prevent ISPs from charging content providers for prioritisation of their traffic. The debate is more heated in the US than in the UK because there is less...

Tags: web, web 2.0, isps, government

[21 Apr 2008]

Security experts criticise Phorm

News Clayton found that part of Phorm's system involves mediating web page requests between users and ISPs. From a commercial standpoint, it would be entirely stupid for us to downgrade the user experience, as ISPs buy in[to the service].

Tags: threat, ads, phorm

[18 Apr 2008]

Europe: Don't ban internet file-sharers

News In this conflict, the ISPs are claiming they should not have to disconnect those users who are persistent file-sharers, but the content industry is calling for a "three strikes and you're out" rule in order to protect intellectual property.

Tags: eu, isps, file sharing

[14 Apr 2008]

PayPal wages war on phishing

News Currently PayPal is also focusing on an approach where ISPs block emails seemingly sent from PayPal that don't have the correct digital signature. Speaking at the RSA security conference in San Francisco this week, Michael Barrett, PayPal's chief...

Tags: certification, education, isps, paypal

[11 Apr 2008]

Phorm defends 'traffic-analysis' methods

News It is the ISPs who are intercepting the traffic and giving it to Phorm - it is that that is illegal. The company behind an ISP-based web advertising user-tracking system has denied claims what it is doing is illegal.

Tags: ripa, phorm

[11 Apr 2008]

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

Comment BBC hits back at ISPs over iPlayer usage In my view, throttling back and any form of 'traffic shaping' are simply ISPs breaking the law in many ways. Social networks to stamp out sex offenders This may have good intentions but will be easy to bypass.

Tags: isp, bbc, government, outsourcing

[10 Apr 2008]

Botnets: 'We're screwed', warn security experts

News ISPs should have a responsibility of making sure users aren't hosting botnets. President of the Internet Security Advisors Group, Ira Winkler, said: "The statistics are basically that we're screwed. There is no real strategy for it.

Tags: isps, law, fbi, security

[10 Apr 2008]

Deploying IPv6: Guidelines for ISPs on IPv6 Assignment to Customers

whitepaper The paper summarizes the information contained in the different documents (IETF, RIRs policies, etc.regarding the practices for the delegation of IPv6 prefixes/addresses from ISPs to end Customers. This paper provides simple guidelines for Service...

Tags: ip technologies, service providers, addresses, bits

[10 Apr 2008]

Preventing the Hack Attack

whitepaper Usually, hacker attacks are aimed at ISPs or corporate networks, but residential users are also at risk. As the number of residential broadband Internet access subscribers grows, numerous stories appear about hacker attacks in cable and DSL networks.

Tags: broadband, attacks, subscribers, cable

[10 Apr 2008]

VDSL White Paper

whitepaper Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers (ILECs) and Competitive Local Exchange Carriers (CLECs) are determined to satisfy consumer demand by providing the best possible solutions at affordable prices in order to...

Tags: bandwidth issues, carriers, bandwidth, connectivity

[10 Apr 2008]

Google defends privacy policy against EU report

News Google has previously argued that the issue is not black and white, in part because ISPs often allot the same IP address to many users. Google has defended its policy of retaining data on web users for up to 18 months as necessary to improve search...

Tags: cookies, eu, search, google

[08 Apr 2008]

BBC hits back at ISPs over iPlayer usage

News BBC tech chief, Ashley Highfield, has hit back at ISPs who want online organisations to pay extra for distributing bandwidth-draining video and multimedia content. In a posting on the BBC blog Highfield, the corporation's director of future media...

Tags: content, highfield, bbc, iplayer

[04 Apr 2008]

Social networks to stamp out sex offenders

News He said another effective measure would be to bring in tighter codes of practice for ISPs around people signing up for email addresses in first place. Registered child sex offenders could soon be legally obliged to supply local police with their...

Tags: criminals, protection, children, guidelines

[04 Apr 2008]

'Unlimited broadband' thing of the past?

News Time is running out for so-called "unlimited broadband" packages, according to analysts and ISPs. For some time, many ISPs have been offering users what they call unlimited broadband, although it almost always comes with some kind of "fair usage...

Tags: broadband, iplayer, youtube, isps

[17 Mar 2008]

Dear silicon.com...Illegal file-sharing, biometrics flying high, ID fines…

Comment Why should the ISPs have to fund what is inadequate copyright protection by the media companies? ¦ The Naked CIO: Identity crisis ¦ Revealed: The full cost of a corporate data breach ¦ Open source gains business credibility ¦ Legal...

Tags: biometrics, id cards, file sharing, gains

[28 Feb 2008]

ISPs' traffic handling in the spotlight

News The high-profile squabble over Comcast's slowdown of BitTorrent file-sharing traffic - and broader questions of network handling by ISPs - is set for public scrutiny at a federal hearing today. The hearing, which will be open to the public, is an...

Tags: isps, bandwidth, fcc, questions

[25 Feb 2008]

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