 Distributing Services
Abstract
The Internet provides a wealth of lessons learned for the aspiring broadband operator. Called the mother of all networks, the Internet has relatively quickly become a mainstay for reliably communications delivery for millions of users. Certainly, one can appreciate the mechanics (or art) of moving all this data around on a daily basis but what is truly remarkable is the degree of reliability built into this enormous network of networks. While the Internet was nurturing the tasks of routing and delivering reliable data, applications that enabled various services offered over the Internet have remained relatively the same and often merely rely on the ever improving data handling of the Internet to provide increased reliability.
Although there have been significant technical advancements through the years which have contributed to the overall reliability of the Internet, uses of this medium for conducting business or even building applications that exploit its power are still in their infancy. However, the idea of building a single web that millions of people can visit is all but a memory. So what has happed that has changed peoples’ minds that one site can’t provide for all the hungry appetites out there. The answer is simply, distributed services.
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