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infografx: The exploding internet
geo-things: The Internet’s Blackholes.
mayhugh: (via Is Data Visualization Art? | Visual.ly Blog) See here for the enlarged version.
thephilter: “When you think about the Chinese internet architecture, the first thing you probably think of is the state’s strong internet censorship. But underneath that is a security structure that’s one of the best in the world. The report, compiled in 2008 and only recently released to the public, outlines two major areas in which China’s got us beat. For one, there’s the security feature known as Source Address Validation Architecture (SAVA). SAVA puts checkpoints across a network and systematically builds up a database of trusted computers and their IP addresses, and authenticates who’s really sending what. The result is that malicious spoofing becomes near impossible, instead of ludicrously easy. It’s a system that Steve Wolff, one of the Internet’s founding fathers, tells New Scientist “should be much more widely adopted.” And China’s got it baked in.  Second, there’s the issue of IPv6, the next-gen Internet Protocol system that will increase the number of available IPs by trillions of trillions. While IPv6 adoption in the United States and other countries has been slow-ish, leaving an increasingly small pool of IPv4 address for an increasingly large pool of devices, China has been diving into IPv6 adoption. After all, China’s got a ton of people and more and more of them want to use the Internet, so China has been having to rev up to this for a while. Donald Riley, an information systems specialist at the University of Maryland put it this way to New Scientist:  “China has a national internet backbone in place that operates under IPv6 as the native network protocol. We have nothing like that in the US.” Via”
How the Internet has Changed the World infographaholic: Source: How the Internet Changed the World

How the Internet has Changed the World

infographaholic:

How the Internet Changed the World
Source: How the Internet Changed the World

landofmaps: World Map of Internet Speed 2012 [1711 x 890]
landofmaps: Map of Undersea Communications Cables [1703x1037] See here as well.
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