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Reports the implication of the Internet service providers (ISP) net revenue for company longevity. Inflation of revenue in subscription services; Utilization of mass storage devices in ISP; Features of digital content network receiver.

Focuses on the use of content delivery network services in the United States as a means of providing cost reduction and revenue growth for Internet-focused businesses. Advantages for web site owners; Software platform developed by McLean, Virginia-based FastTide Inc. to pick best delivery route; Service delivery performance for service providers and customers.

Discusses how software can help enhance the quality of streaming media. Development into a revenue stream for network service providers; Tendency to focus on data transport to generate revenue; Projected demand for streaming media, according to a HTRC Group study.

Reports on the benefits of process automation on Internet protocol (IP) service providers and their goal to minimize cost and maximize efficiency. Correlation between operational efficiency and profitability; Benefits of process automation on customer registration; IP services likely to be abused.

Reports on the efforts of data storage equipment makers to develop solutions to enable an Internet-based storage service using Internet storage infrastructure (ISI). Factors driving the emergence of storage service providers (SSP); Technologies adopted by SSP; Ideal customers of ISI services; First SSP to market an ISI service.

Reports that many content sites plan to add Web-based applications to their Web sites. Shortage of information technology professionals; Importance of experience in achieving Internet Protocol expertise; Opportunity for offering professional services to customers implementing the applications.

Provides strategies for the success of applications service providers in the United States. Establishment of customer trust; Increase in performance by hosting applications with a network assuring quality of service mechanisms; Alliance with content delivery network providers.

Focuses on the emergence of telecommunication firms that provide global load balancing for companies that deploy their own data centers. Prices for switch-based global load balancing products; Key step to leveraging multiple data centers; Speedera Networks Inc.'s plan to offer global load balancing services that Web site owners can subscribe to.

Focuses on content site managers' efforts to attract and retain online visitors. Daily deployments of technologies such as digital subscriber line and cable modems; Video streaming capabilities; Challenges faced by providers of content site housing; Importance of bandwidth performance.

Discusses how Internet service providers would benefit from tracking Internet Protocol (IP) customer behavior. Analysis of individual customer profitability; Creation of new IP services; Determination of which IP services would be best to bundle; Features of the online behavior tracking tool Narus Intelligence from Narus.

Focuses on the increase in the number of Internet content delivery network (CDN) service providers in the United States. Benefits of CDN to content providers; Ways of delivering CDN services; Factors that might contribute to the increase of demand for CDN.

Presents information about carrier-class platforms for voice and data transmissions. Lucent's 7R/E platform; Nortel's Succession platform; Equipment involved; Interoperability.

Focuses on the strategies of Internet service providers in increasing their market share in the United States. Evaluation of future market opportunity; Experience of the customer using the service.

Describes the benefits of outsourcing Internet access networks for Internet service providers (ISP) in the United States. Outsourcing infrastructure for rapid growth, enter new markets and increase the number of subscribers; Outsourcing as a way for smaller ISP to offer the capabilities of the large service provider's network.

Focuses on developments related to data virtual private networks (VPN) as of January 25, 1999. Telecommunications company-based Internet service providers' plan to introduce their VPN services; VPN services' capability to meet users' needs; Challenges faced by companies planning to offer VPN services.

Discusses the role of digital subscriber line (DSL) in improving the services offered by Internet service providers (ISP). Percentage of ISP planning to launch DSL services in 1999; Competition provided by smaller ISP; Purchasing emphasis on management software and wide area network connection.