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Internet Industry

Many companies and organisations exist to make the Internet possible, useful and accessible.

Several organisations define the standards and protocols that are in use and others allocate resources such as ip nos and domain names.

Companies in the Telecommunications industry create, own and manage some of the many networks across which the internet operates and/or provide access to the internet.

Many companies provide internet related services, such as search engines, web site design, hosting, data centres, domain name registration, email, etc

=Governance=

Standards
IETF w3c

Allocation of Resources
ICANN Regional Internet Registries

=Infrastruture=

Companies active in this area own and manage the physical hardware of the internet. Infrastructure includes cables, routers, data centres and servers.

Global Transit Providers
Companies providing global transit are sometimes called transit providers and are usually international or multi-national telecommunication companies. Transit providers own a lot of fibre optic cables which connect to a large number of networks around the world. Transit providers can use their routers to send gigabits of traffic to almost any IP number anywhere in the world and hundreds of gigabits to popular destinations such as Frankfurt, Amsterdam, London, Tokyo or Washington.

National companies resell global transit at lower bandwidths with the smallest bandwidth being one megabit and often bundle them with additional services such as colocation or hosting.

Peering Exchanges
These companies and organisations, usually non-profits, have many members who swap internet traffic with one another to minimise the costs of global transit. The members are companies that have large amounts of internet traffic to trade and swap.

Internet Service Provider
An ISP provides consumers and businesses access to the internet. ISPs are usually a national telecoms company or a division thereof.

Data Centres
Companies that specialise in data centres are either carrier neutral or tied.

Shared Hosting
=Software=

web server
apache, iis

mail server
sendmail, exchange, postfix, exim

Browsers
mosaic, internet explorer,firefox

CMS
General (joomla, wordpress) or specific (CRM, ecommerce)

=Services=