Category: Network

It seems that the era of unlimited data consumption is not only an end to the wireless Internet services.

That’s because, as reported for the first time reports of broadband, AT & T in the implementation of plans for a new 150GB cap DSL customers and a 250GB cap its U-verse customers from May . According to reports of broadband, AT & T will charge users an extra $ 10 per 50 GB of data you consume above the limit of the CAP. However, these excess charges only start once the users have exceeded the caps three times or more – in other words, users can go over the top twice during the life of your account and will not face charges for excess .

VERIZON VS. AT & T: What’s better IPAD two plans?

AT & T Broadband Reports said that potential overage charges would affect only about 2% of its ADSL customers, as the average DSL customers consume 18 GB of data per month. The company also says it will notify customers when they exceed 65%, 90% and 100% of your monthly data allowance, similar to how AT & T is communicated to its wireless subscribers as they are about exceed the monthly limits.

AT & T and rival carrier Verizon is so far from all you can eat data plans and to the different service plans for its wireless services, such as the recently published data IPAD two plans offered by tapas ranging from 250 MB per month to 10 GB per month. AT & T has the ball rolling on the covers of mobile data last year when it announced it would drop the unlimited data plans for iPhone in favor of plans that offer between 200 MB and 2 GB of data usage per month. Verizon soon followed suit, saying that it would take a similar pricing scheme for LTE 4G services that should launch later this year. Verizon COO Lowell McAdam hinted earlier this year plans LTE could give users a certain amount of data you can consume each month before they would have to pay excessive fees.

But the application of data covers fixed telephony services has not worked particularly well for the ISP. In 2009, for example, Time-Warner Cable decided to close a test program that places caps bandwidth of its Internet services by cable, because of complaints from customers about the possibility of paying overage charges. ISPs have been experimenting with the implementation of the bandwidth caps since 2008, when Comcast, Time Warner Cable and AT & T announced that they were testing the new service stop. All the covers had been consistently controversial, however, as a woman even has sued AT & T to be billed $ 5,000 in fees for excess Internet.

Microsoft has agreed to pay $ 7.5 million for the purchase of a block of IPv4 addresses bankruptcy 666,624 Canadian manufacturer of telecommunications equipment Nortel in a move that some see as a sign of the increasing value of IPv4 addresses.

Last week, Nortel filed a motion seeking approval for the sale of the Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. If the deal is approved, Microsoft could take control of IPv4 addresses, now owned by Nortel, for about $ 11.25 each.

About 470,000 of the addresses are available for immediate use by Microsoft, while the rest will be released to the company at the end of the bankruptcy proceedings, according to court documents filed in connection with the proposed sale.

The news of the proposed deal comes just weeks after the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced that it had delivered its last block of IPv4 addresses, and all remaining supplies of early regional records would end.

Some have speculated that a black market in IPv4 addresses how your supply begins to relax and more organizations are faced with the costs and risks involved in migrating to IPv6.

ICANN and the regional registries have noted that the remaining IPv4 addresses allocated to entities that demonstrate an immediate need for them.

The American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) has enacted new rules that allow companies to anticipate their needs for leadership of only three months at a time instead of the previous period of one year.

Microsoft plans to buy Nortel’s entire block of IPv4 addresses in this environment has prompted a debate among members of the North American Network Operators NANOG).

Some posters on the mailing list of the group speculated that Microsoft would buy the directions for the purpose of resale at a later date. “You can only get it for free from ARIN if they can document an immediate demand,” said a poster on NANOG.

“It may not have an immediate demand, and are simply addresses storage for later use after ARIN exhaustion? Or maybe the hope of making a profit after its sale to another person,” said the cartel.

Others wondered how Microsoft could buy the address block when ARIN policy requires that the blocks will be returned by Nortel of a pool where others can use. A sign says the “receiving organization must demonstrate a justified need,” to get the blocks.

In a message to the NANOG, John Curran, ARIN’s CEO, seems to suggest that the organization would be willing to go to court to explain the policy of allocation of IPv4 addresses.

“ARIN been given the policy, and explain what is needed in different courts,” said Curran. He could not immediately be verified if the poster was in fact Curran.

Nortel filed for bankruptcy in January 2009. Since then the company has been selling assets in an attempt to try to raise money to pay creditors.

According to court documents, Nortel began trying to sell the IP numbers in late 2010 after it realized its potential value.

The court seemed to recognize the value of the IPv4 address when noted that the limited supply of IPv4 addresses provides an “opportunity to get value from the marketing of Internet Numbers, that opportunity will diminish over time as IPv6 addresses are more widely adopted. ”

Nortel has received applications from 80 potential buyers and signed confidentiality agreements with 14 of them as part of preliminary efforts to find a suitable purchaser.

The company received final bids from four buyers of January and settled on Microsoft’s bid in March, representing the highest and best offer court papers said.

Incite domain, a blog that covers the area of ​​domain names, said the $ 11.25 for the direction Microsoft is committed to pay more than you would expect to pay.

“Remember, there are no intellectual property or traffic associated with these addresses – they are only route numbers,” said Kevin Murphy, director of the blog.

Based on that price, the total value of all IPv4 address space is in excess of $ 48 million dollars, he said.

Microsoft did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Internet users in Southeast Asia are coming to social networking sites, increasing penetration rates from year to year are higher than the world average, according to new statistics from ComScore.

In a Web conference Wednesday, the market researcher discussed the state of Internet usage in the region from a survey conducted in January 2011, covering six countries: Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines.

According to Joe Nguyen, comScore vice president Southeast Asia, Vietnam saw the biggest growth year after year by 35 percent, where the penetration of social networks in the country rose to 66 percent last year, by 49 percent 2009. The rate of penetration, however, remained comparatively lower than other countries in the region that all adoption rates have been recorded higher than the world average of 70 percent, said Nguyen.
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Fortinet has filed a petition with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to re-examine a patent held by Trend Micro Security.

Trend Micro’s patent in question, 5,623,600, covers the virus detection and removal processes. The patent has led to skirmishes in the security industry, in particular, a battle between Trend Micro and Barracuda Networks. Fortinet says its petition identifies the technique that makes Trend Micro patent invalid.

Fortinet Trend Micro has fought before. Trend Micro sued Fortinet in 2004 and the two companies settled a patent dispute in 2006. Legal peace did not last long. Fortinet, Trend Micro sued again, after a 2008 and 2009, in January of mourning for Fortinet believes the patent license in 2006 to be valid. Fortinet, Trend Micro also claimed threatened its customers.

The increased demand for telecommunications companies to provide managed security services and the trend of companies deploying cloud services will be strategic for the growth of Fortinet in the region, said a company executive.

The security technology provider of network and business model position very well to get to their telecommunications customers such a transformation, “said George Chang, Fortinet’s regional director for Southeast Asia and Hong Kong, in an interview Wednesday.

Appointed as the regional lead in May, Chang also serves as the regional director of market support and service provider in the Asia-Pacific, a portfolio he has held since December 2009. Prior to joining Fortinet, was head of corporate development at OpenNet, the company appointed or NETCO network of the next generation of Singapore’s National Broadband Network.
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