Archive for July 2nd, 2009
The American commercial Internet scene has been dominated with a select few “Tier 1″ service providers, including AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, and Level 3. Those service providers carry Internet traffic through large capacity network pipes around the country to most of the major cities, and then deliver consumer services or hand off Internet traffic to smaller, local service providers and cable TV companies.
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Tags: Internet peering, network neutrality
John Savageau’s Profile
John Savageau is a life long telecom and Internet geek, with a deep interest in the environment and all things green. Whether drilling into the technology of human communications, or describing a blue whale off Catalina Island, Savageau will try to present complex ideas in terms that are easily appreciated and understood.
John Savageau is President of Pacific-Tier Communications based in Honolulu, Hawaii
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