Large-Scale IP Network Solutions (CCIE Professional Development)
by Khalid Raza - CCIE, Mark Turner
Modern Internet Architecture
For some time, the FCC has been encouraging the telephony industry, through legislation, to allow competition in both the long-distance and local-area markets. The Internet is already there without legislation, but certainly has used the help of government policy through the NSF. From a technological viewpoint, the peer-to-peer model of IP has contributed greatly to the ease with which competition has been introduced.
Today, a number of national service providers operate peer networks, and compete for the same market segment in the same geographical area (see Figure 1-8). Similar arrangements exist abroad. In the final year or so of the twentieth century, there has been a consolidation of players through mergers ...
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