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Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) has restored fully the internet services pertaining to its dial up internet, dedicated to internet, ADSL and e-mail services, a news release from Sri Lanka Telecom said.
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InfoWorld - For midsize businesses seeking a relatively easy, inexpensive way to keep their servers running around the clock, Fujitsu Siemens Computers has launched a fully automated backup recovery system.
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(InfoWorld) - Verizon Communications Inc.'s Business unit has expanded its service-level agreement (SLA) options, allowing customers to invoke their SLAs on the last mile of their network connection, even in cases where Verizon doesn't own those pipes. Verizon Business' "customer edge to customer edge" SLA option is available at no additional cost for the company's Private IP (Internet Protocol) customers based in the U.S., with the service planned for other Private IP customers by the end of the year. The customer edge SLA covers network facilities that Verizon Business leases from other telecom providers to gain last-mile access to business customers. Verizon Business offers a 20 percent credit of the customer's monthly recurring charges if it fails to meet the SLA. Verizon Business is expanding its SLA options because many customers are moving voice, data and video onto Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) networks, said Mike Marcellin, the company's vice president for global product marketing. "The customers we're working with are looking for as robust guarantees as they can get," he said. In any month, a Verizon Business customer can invoke either the traditional provider edge SLA or the new customer edge SLA. The two SLAs differ in some details, with the provider edge SLA offering stronger guarantees in some areas. For example, the provider edge SLA guarantees jitter rates of no more than five milliseconds, and the customer edge SLA offers jitter rates of less than 10ms one-way voice over IP traffic and less than 20ms one-way video traffic. "If it goes off of our private IP network, we lose some level of control, but we're still able to stand behind the overall end-to-end SLA," Marcellin said. "We're giving the customer the best of both worlds." The customer edge SLAs also offer guarantees on packet delay and packet delivery ratio, as well as time-to-repair guarantees. Verizon Business has announced other enhancements to its SLAs in the past year, including a voice quality SLA and an enhanced time-to-repair SLA, that did away with the standard average time-to-repair metric in favor of guaranteed time-to-repair in every outage. The expansion of SLAs are important for customers as they move more applications to wide area networks, said Courtney Munroe, vice president with IDC. "It's a bid deal in the sense that a lot of [customers] keep asking for more and more tangible SLAs," Munroe said. "A lot of [providers] shy away from giving these SLAs." Verizon Business' SLAs are among the best in the telecom industry, Munroe said.
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Repairs to undersea cable connections that were cut off Egypt's northern coast last week, disrupting Internet access in the Gulf region and Southeast Asia, are expected to be completed this weekend.
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OK, we had an extended breather from our last look at BIND's zone file pri.example.org. It's time to finish up and get a sense of what these records mean. To go off-topic a little, recently, I had the task of setting up two OpenLDAP servers and putting together a test environment for a project with several developers and several applications including some LAMP applications. Without a working knowledge of DNS, the project would have gone amuck.
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By PULLAR-STRECKER Tom  TELECOM will install ADSL2+ Internet access equipment in 120 exchanges in Wellington, Auckland, Christchurch, Hamilton and Dunedin by the end of the year, tripling the maximum download speed of its copper broadband network.
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So much for redundant power supplies Some of the net's biggest websites went dark following power interruptions in San Francisco that are disrupted operations at co-location facility 365 Main.â¦
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Lightning-fast wireless Internet access, anywhere, anytime has been the elusive goal of Internet junkies and e-mail-a-holics. It&#39;s finally arrived - in Grand Haven, Mich.
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Wireless broadband and satellite TV -- together at last.
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Two of the four undersea cables that provide data to much of the Middle East, Africa, and Asia which were severed late last week are now undergoing repair.
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Blog: I recently had the opportunity to meet with two Microsoft officials to discuss Widows Home Server.  According to Microsoft officials, this new solution could solve all of your backup problems and help you immediately restore your entire system to an earli
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Phone lines and internet connections are restored a week after Nepal's king took control of the country.
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Reg Review Top notch sat nav for Windows handsets
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Updated browser that patches the problems is now available for download.
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The NYT has an optimistic overview on broadband over power lines, calling it "the ultimate plug and play." [Broadband Blog]
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Get online in under five minutes Business broadband provider Pure Telecom has launched a new transportable service which will allow users to set up a satellite broadband link at short notice.â¦
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By Bob Mims, The Salt Lake Tribune  Feb. 20--Technical woes during ArosNet's move to new offices left about  3,000 of the Internet provider's Utah customers without service over the  weekend.