« "Great new ideas will never get off the ground" | Main | Sun's on-demand Supercomputer »
March 22, 2006
Net Backbone Ownership
Bill Cheswick of Lumeta has put together an updated map for CIO Magazine, showing who owns the Internet's backbone networks. Not surprisingly, Verizon, AT&T, and Level 3 dominate.
As I've mentioned before, this is the less-discussed other side of the network neutrality debate; whether backbone providers can impose a tiered Internet on content and application providers, separate from what residential broadband providers might do with their customers. Although in the case of Verizon and AT&T, those could be the same company. (Thanks to Greg Staple)
Posted by Kevin Werbach at March 22, 2006 10:34 AM
Comments
Post a comment
Thanks for signing in, . Now you can comment. (sign out)
(If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.)