The glue code — along with the remaining business logic that makes your application unique — runs on ultra-cheap, infinitely-scalable Lambda (or equivalent) infrastructure, thereby eliminating the need for servers altogether.
"[They have] massive infrastructure investment and I see absolutely no reason why working together we can't get the equivalent infrastructure investment here to give us much stronger transport links both with the east, with London, and with the north via Birmingham," he said.
Frank McCosker, general manager for affordable access at Microsoft 4Afrika, says the technology has a range of 13km (eight miles) from a transmitter base station; can offer broadband connections of up to 16Mbps and costs 15% of the equivalent 3G infrastructure.
With so many high-powered, talkative people in one place, the telecommunications suppliers have had to install an infrastructure equivalent to that of a small city.
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As an engineering feat, it will be the equivalent of building infrastructure for the London Olympics every two years for a quarter of a century, says John Loughhead of the UK Energy Research Centre.
In India it was all about "greenfield", or new projects, from roads to power stations.Between 2007 and 2012, $225 billion was invested by the private sector in infrastructure, equivalent to 12% of GDP in 2012, much of it through PPPs.
We're trundling along in the infrastructure equivalent of a jalopy, with bridges rotting and falling down, while other nations, our competitors in the global economy, are building efficient, high-speed, high-performance infrastructure platforms to power their 21st-century economies.
If the detention centre had been a mining project – the only other kind of venture likely to deliver equivalent people, investment, infrastructure and dislocation into remote PNG – the project developer would be required under law to conduct social mapping to determine which customary owners should be consulted and who should have a say and a stake in the distribution of royalties and benefits.
The Guardian's telephone number is 020 7278 2332, so its Enum internet address would be: 2.3.3.2.8.7.2.7.0.2.4.4.e164.arpa, where "44" is the UK's international dialling code, "e164" is the name of the telephone numbering system and ".arpa" is the internet infrastructure equivalent of.com.
For it to replace fossil fuels in mobile applications, however, it will require the creation of a production and delivery infrastructure equivalent to the one that currently exists for fossil fuels, which is an immense task.
