What Exactly is the Internet? A Tour of Routing and Peering

Courtesy Digg Linux/Unix upcoming  Fri, 11/07/2008 - 15:12

Service providers are all excited about "the cloud" and want us to buy into this vague, mysterious "new" service.

But real geeks want details, not hand-waving. In this installment of the excellent classic Networking 101 series, Charlie Schluting tells us how competing service providers all have to cooperate for the Internet to work at all.


 

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