Given the furious pace and high stakes of the telecommunications industry today, some fear that it is only a matter of time before one big backbone provider or another refuses to exchange data traffic with one of its peers.
Some telcos won't carry data traffic from the tiny outfits unless they pay a fee, but PSINet Inc., a big Internet "backbone" operator that fled the consumer market to serve business clients, does it free of charge.
Some telcos won't carry data traffic from the tiny outfits unless they pay a fee, but PSINet Inc., a big Internet "backbone" operator that fled the consumer market to serve business clients, does it free of charge (see next story).
Not that it's a big problem, backbone operators are taking strides in fixing the problem, but it is something to think about next time you get mad at Comcast because it's taking a whole 22 minutes to download the latest episode of Heroes.
"So our network strategy since 1995 has been to build private NAPs, our own routed, managed and controlled access points to the big backbone networks.
To hire him, he said, would require that ABC "have the biggest backbone in the world".
It brings the best brand name in the telecommunications world to the most widely distributed product line in the networking universe: every kind of gear to connect to the network (data, voice, video), the intermediary steps to get to the big networks (switches, remote access), and the world's biggest backbone network itself.
The Jets advanced to two straight A.F.C. title games with defense and running as their backbone, including a big playoff upset of the Patriots in the 2010 season.
I've developed a backbone and a big heart.
He's a little white guy with a big mouth but not much backbone.
