Internet Access Provider

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Internet Access Provider

• The Internet A short history
• Original concepts in 1960s
• Connect 4 computers
• Package Telephony
• Technical/Scientific/Academic access 1980s
• Internet access open 1990s

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Internet Access Provider

• Internet Growth

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IAP

• Internet Drivers
• Business-to-consumer commerce
• Business-to-business commerce
• Software innovation
• WWW
• E-Mail
• Consumers Society
• Work
• Life
• Learn
• Entertainment

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IAP

• Who are profiting?
• Hardware suppliers
• IAPs e.g. AOL
• Bandwidth providers e.g. Regional Bell
  Companies, ATT long distance
• Content providers
• Businesses?

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IAP

• Who are the IAPs?
• Telcos e.g. ATT, MCI, Sprint
• Cable companies using modems
• Online companies e.g. AOL, Compuserve

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IAP

• Internet and other systems
• AOL is an online service connected to internet
  for e-mail
• Special services not available on internet
• Reservation system
• Internet
• Educational
• Academic
• Commercial (recently)

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IAP

• IAP market future
• Virtual companies consisting of
• mobile users
• contractors
• telecommuters working together on the same
  network
• Combining data, voice, video
• Linking LANs and WANs
• Extension of online access
• More speed, i.e. higher bandwidth

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IAP

• What is driving the need for bandwidth?
• Increasing number of users
• Graphics transmission
• Audio
• Video
• Electronic commerce
• More powerful PCs
• CAD/CAM applications

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IAP

• Bandwidth - Why important?
• Assume you need to download a 10 megabyte video
  clip to your PC
• Bandwidth Price/month Time
• Kbps
  (minutes)
• 9.6 6
  17
• 28.8 20
  5.5
• 128 60
  1.3
• 1.544Mbps 1500 0.11
• Warning - You want the speed, you pay the price