All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Internet

- Business Interruption - Commerce Disruption - Unanticipated Vulnerability

This is not a criticism of the Internet.  Things break down and things get broken.  It is the norm for a network operator. However, is this an opportunity for a third party network provider?

Now that a third undersea fiber cable has been cut, the probability is extremely low that it was an accident.  Someone or some organization is intent on disrupting international commerce and finance in the Middle East in the attempt to isolate the more secular countries like the UAE, Egypt, and...

Three cable cuts in the same geographical area and in a short period of time suggests sabotage.

How vulnerable is the Internet - indeed the overall global telecom infrastructure - to single points of failure, and what are the implications for improving robustness and resiliency against both accidents and deliberate attacks?

It was only a matter of time before Google took the next step in bullying the market place...  I call it the Microsoft syndrome and if lawmakers and law enforcers ignore it the same things that Microsoft tried to get away with so to will Google ..

The stakes are high in the IPTV wars, with cable providers, satellite providers, traditional telcos, and fiber optic based telcos vying for the prized position as the premiere portal to the homes of the world. New developments in DSL technology raise the prospect that popular assumptions regarding the...

1. Yahoo and Microsoft together are not as big as Google in search 2. Will the culture clash of two companies outweigh the search market share gains?

“You can have it fast, cheap or good:  pick any two!”  In too many cases fast and cheap has won over good.  The primary driver behind offshoring has been cost savings, not quality.  Network redundancy is an insurance policy which many executives have chosen not to buy.  Sadly,...

The internet is not impentrable. We should maintain robust alternative means and routes of communication and they should be tested routinely.