Essays on Bittorrent

The most important reason that pushes Akamai Technologies to disperse its servers geographically is infrastructural issued. The system of Akamai’s products works in the next way: after receiving the request from the user about any file (video\images\music\etc.) system pass this request to the nearest Akamai’s server, where a copy of web-site that is needed is situated. So there is no need to pass the whole way from the user’s computer to the server of web-site (it could be even in the opposite part of the world!), but only to the nearest Akamai’s ...

Technologies for Home Internet and Computer Networks

Question 1: Compare and contrast at least five technologies that are readily available for in-home internet access. You should consider practical as well as technical differences in your comparison. Do not include Frame Relay or ATM as these are primarily larger scale business solutions.

Answer: Five technologies that are readily available for in-home internet access:

VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol): VoIP refers to transmitting voice data over an IP-based network. VoIP requires a computer, a dedicated VoIP phone or a landline phone to place calls through a VoIP server or special adapter. Calls to landline numbers is also possible using interconnected VoIP services. Various codec’s are used to encode voice calls, they ...

One of the most common previews to see in an American movie theater today is a reminder that piracy of movies is illegal, and does irreparable harm to the entertainment industry. However, piracy of movies, music, games, and software has been rising almost exponentially with the growth of the Internet, and the size of the entertainment industry does not appear to be shrinking in any appreciable way. To understand the effect that digitization and globalization has had on the entertainment industry, there are many different issues to consider. Piracy is not the only type of digital media-- legitimate, legal sources ...