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So who actually owns the Internet? ... The physical network that carries Internet traffic between different computer systems is the Internet backbone. In the early days of the Internet, ARPANET served as the system's backbone. Today, several large corporations provide the routers and cable that make up the Internet backbone.
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computer.howstuffworks.com/who-owns-internet1.htm
computer.howstuffworks.com/who-owns-internet1.htm
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What is this ball of colors? ... It is the North American Internet, or more specifically a map of just about every router on the North American backbone, (there are 134,855 of them for those who are counting). The colors represent who each router is registered to.
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Maps of Internet backbones, sorted by market share. ... Major Internet Backbone MAP ... misc backbone links: Reach, Broadwing, ESNET, , Moscow Fiber , ,
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The importance of WorldCom to the world’s Internet connectivity has been all but forgotten in the company’s recent meltdown. UUNet is a critical part of the Internet backbone, carrying an estimated half of Internet traffic, and WorldCom owns it.
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www.networknewz.com/2002/0909.html
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He worked with Lumeta’s chief scientist Bill Cheswick to create a map of the North American Internet backbone, including 134,855 routers, colored by telecom company (Verizon, AT&T, Qwest, Level 3, Sprint Nextel, cable companies, smaller players).
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blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/index.php?p=2747
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INP160 Section 5, Lecture Notes 2/1/2000; Internet History and Communicatio ... Companies such as Sprint, MCI, and UUNet own the high speed "backbone" lines that connect the many different major networks on the net.
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courses.wccnet.edu/~leonello/inp160a3/internet_history/...
courses.wccnet.edu/~leonello/inp160a3/internet_history/file_7.html
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Up front, an auctioneer is running through a list of Internet domain names, building excitement the same way he might if vintage cars were on the block. ... In the case of Cameroon, a country of 18 million with just 167,000 computers connected to the Internet, that means hundreds of millions ... The man who owns the Internet...
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money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/200...
money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2007/06/01/100050989/
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Before you can answer who owns the Internet, you must answer what the Internet is. Is it a jumble of random wires and duct tape? Is it a software packet, a computer, or a router? ... who owns the internet net neutrality...
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In fact, the Internet backbone has plenty of capacity. If the tubes are going to get clogged, then it's the last mile that will need a good plumber... especially as user-generated content and P2P alter the download-centric model that has undergirded most last-mile network architecture to date.
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arstechnica.com/old/content/2008/04/exaflood-not-happen...
arstechnica.com/old/content/2008/04/exaflood-not-happening.ars
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