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How Wireless Data Radios can be used to provide Internet Access

by: Dewayne Hendricks [dewayne@warpspeed.com]

In the past two years there have been great strides in the wireless data industry which has resulted in products which have much higher datarates and lower price points then ever before.  These products can provide wireless data communications either over LAN or MAN coverage areas.

This now offers ISP's new options as to how to they can provide affordable high-speed Internet access to customers in their service area. This talk will review the results of a two and a half year US National Science Foundation (NSF) funded research project which has studied how these devices can be used to deliver Internet access to educational institutations in both urban and rural areas in the United States.

The focus of the discussion will be to examine the issues involved in using wireless data devices to provide Internet access in contrast to using wireline alternatives.  Also insights will be provided as to how ISP's can go about successfully deploying wireless data devices in both urban and rural areas to solve last-mile connectivity issues.

Changing Business Models in ISP Business

by: Dudley Howe

The Internet is the most intense business ecology the world has ever  seen and today's ISPs must adapt rapidly to survive in it.

The large telephone companies are investing billions in building out  an Internet infrastructure with plans to bundle their voice services with their Internet services. This will force the ISPs to redefine themselves based on their strenghts and the weakness of the big competitors. Exploring these changes is the subject of this speech.

High Performance Web Caching and the Mirror Image Solution

by: Sverker Lindbo

Mirror Image has developed a unique, transparent, open standards two-tier Web caching solution that provides phenomenal bandwidth savings. The three components of this solution are:

• The Web Gateway Interceptors, transparent caches maintained within the local area network of an ISP.
• The Terabyte Servers providing a huge resource shared by many different caches, like  Interceptors, other local caching devices, and proxy servers supporting the open standard  Internet Cache Protocol (ICP).
• The Cache Management Service, checking the freshness of the cached files with the origin servers (Active File Verification), monitoring the operational status of the participating Interceptors 24 by 7, etc.

( click here for more info )

Video Conferencing on the Desktop

by: Evi Nemeth [evi@nlanr.net]

Ever participated in a video conference at your desktop?  You will, and probably sooner than you think.  Exciting new desktop video conferencing tools are available today.  Learn how to setup software and hold private conferences, as well as join in to technical sessions at conferences like USENIX and IETF from afar. 

Common Misunderstanding of Multilingual Issues

by: Masataka Ohta

While the multilingual and character set issues are highly cultural and are not easy to understand, there are widely spread but simple technical misunderstandings on the issue, which makes the understanding even more difficult.

For example, there is a confusion that multilingual processing needs multiple character sets or multiscript processing, even though all the languages in the world can be written with ASCII characters only.

The other example is that, sometimes, localization is often against the internationalization. The reality is that localization of DNS or URL names to include local characters in them is to limit the scope of the names locally and is against the internationalization.

The talk identifies various misunderstandings to help to identify the essential cultural issues of multilingual and multiscript processing.

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• Last updated on Feb. 6, 1998 •