The case for flat-rate services As we look at today's economic landscape, only one thing seems scarier than controlling expenses, and that is having unpredictable expenses. For that reason, we expect lots of services that have traditionally been usage based to be even more attractive if offered as a flat-rate service. Time Warner Changes - But Keeps - Bandwidth Caps Time Warner Cable decided it wanted to play with bandwidth capping, but after intense backlash from customers, the company has backed off its original plans. Time Warner to try tiered cable pricing Time Warner Cable will try selling consumers broadband service based on how much bandwidth they use, a move that could turn the home broadband pricing model in the U.S. on its head. Time Warner looks at traffic capping Way back in the mists of Internet time, 2000 to be exact, a new Web site called eMusic opened its doors. eMusic was amazing. It offered DRM-free music from a huge number of independent labels and even included lots of old recordings, for example, pretty much everything Bill Evans, the legendary jazz pianist, ever recorded. Broadband pricing: solutions that are orthogonal to any real problem Broadband pricing proposals by AT&T, Time Warner and Comcast to deal with Internet congestion fall short. Cable vs. DSL vs. dial-up vs. cellular - which to lose? For the past several years, both Steve and Jim have been working in an environment where they felt like some form of backup for network access is mandatory. And, since customers can purchase both DSL and cable modem ... Israeli Startup Stirs CDN Pot Just as CDN services have become ho hum, up pops Cotendo--an Israeli startup with the potential to shake up the CDN market. Although Cotendo describes itself as a CDN, don't be fooled. Its real raison d'être is something more powerful and innovative--application delivery management. It has what it calls a CDN Balancer, which allows you to serve content when you want and where you want across multiple CDNs. Why is that powerful? Because it gives you unprecedented control over how content gets delivered. Here are just a few of the possible ways it can be useful... Practicing safe hex Cisco Subnet blogger Jimmy Ray Purser takes you through the steps of seeing the images that employees are viewing online by intercepting the hex streams. Building a CCNA lab on the cheap Cisco Subnet blogger Wendell Odom looks at how you can keep costs for a CCNA lab under $200 - or even $100. April giveaways galore Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet are giving away training courses from Global Knowledge, valued at $2,995 and $3,495, and have copies of three hot books up for grabs: CCVP CIPT2 Quick Reference by Anthony Sequeira, Microsoft Voice Unified Communications by Joe Schurman and Microsoft Office 2007 On Demand by Steve Johnson. Deadline for entries April 30. Network World on Twitter Get our tweets and stay plugged in to networking news. |
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