We often discuss the range of a cell tower (also known as cellular or tower) while using mobiles, or wireless internet. If you’re facing network issues it is just because you are not close to the tower’s capacity and range. So how can we know the range of a cell tower? The working range of… Continue reading ⟶
Internet Exchange Points, in short IXPs or IX, is the most critical section of the Internet’s infrastructure. An Internet Exchange Point is a physical facility through which various Internet Service Providers (ISP), Content Delivery Networks (CDN), Point of Presence (PoP) meets, and exchange traffic, known as Peering. This saves a lot of money wasted on… Continue reading ⟶
In the web hosting world having a faster internet connection is necessary. You shouldn’t be miser here because you’ll bottleneck everything here. For most of us, 100 Mb/s internet connection is fine, enough to host small blogs, websites, or any other non-internet intensive web project. But Gigabit internet is a commodity today, at least for… Continue reading ⟶
Tier 3 ISP (Internet Service Provides) are those that take internet connectivity to the last mile. They could be your local cable operator or a broadband service company. Tier 3 ISP buys bandwidth in bulk from Tier 2 ISP and shares among its subscribers by a cost to bandwidth ratio; the more you’ll pay, the… Continue reading ⟶
Tier 2 ISP (Internet Service Providers) plays an important role in distributing internet connectivity from submarine cables to land masses, they can sell their bandwidth to businesses, data centers, enterprises, offices, and even consumers. Since tier 2 ISP manages everything on the ground they handle all the telecommunication roles in a country. They often share… Continue reading ⟶
