When you switch your Internet access to Verizon FiOS fiber-optic high-speed access, you get more than just the fastest home Internet access available, world-class support, and free installation with your one-year contract. You also get access to amazing games and entertainment options.

For the gamer, Verizon FiOS offers the Verizon Arcade, filled with the hottest game titles, on-demand, over your lightning-fast connection. Enjoy playing your current favorites online, or find new games to challenge your gaming abilities. Whether the gamer in your family is you or one of the kids, you'll find a gamer's paradise with Verizon FiOS.

Verizon FiOS also offers exclusive game reviews for your information and entertainment. Find out more about that hot new game you've been waiting for. And get access to industry news on games and game companies so you know what's going on in the gaming arena.

For the non-gamers in your family, Verizon's entertainment area also offers movie trailers and reviews, as well as candid interviews with the stars and directors of the big new movies. If you're an entertainment buff, you'll find plenty to hold your interest with Verizon FiOS.

The audiophile in your home will also find plenty to love with Verizon FIOS, with music videos, reviews, and exclusive features mixes of favorite songs.

Verizon understands that your Internet connection is a major entertainment outlet for you and your family. Verizon FiOS brings you the entertainment options you want, whether that be games, music or movies. You'll have fun and be in the know with your Verizon FiOS connection.

Of course, entertainment is not your only reason for choosing Verizon FiOS. You want the best Internet access at the best price, with the best speed and support. Verizon brings all of this to the table.

When you choose an Internet service provider, you want to know that your access will be available when you need it, that you will get the support you need, and that you're going to get exactly what you expect from your service provider. With Verizon FiOS, you're working with Verizon, one of the biggest telecommunications providers in the world. You know you're working with professionals and you'll get the best service and support available.

Changing Internet providers can be a very daunting proposition, especially when it comes to installation. You probably do not want to pay for installation; you also don't look forward to doing it yourself. With your one-year Verizon FiOS contract, you get free professional installation. A professional Verizon technician will set up your computer and actually get you on the Internet to make sure everything is fine before leaving.

If you already have broadband Internet access through DSL or cable, you may wonder if you should switch to Verizon FiOS. If you want lightning-fast speed, with fiber-optic cable running all the way into your home and the fastest home Internet access available, then yes, you should definitely switch to Verizon FiOS.

And Verizon FiOS costs less than many DSL and cable Internet packages, with rates starting at $42.99. With higher speeds, excellent service and support, and a great entertainment package, why not switch now?



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You're evaluating your WAN (Wide Area Network) and wondering how you can optimize performance across the network. What are you're realistic options for a solution?

Keep in mind that this isn't necessarily a bandwidth solution, such as say MPLS or ethernet is. Rather it's a bandwidth utilization question.

I would suggest looking at WAN optimization appliances: Riverbed, Juniper, Packeteer. In many cases they do a very good job with latency, especially if the main source of the problem is CIFS WAN-unaware issues (copying/opening/modifying files using Windows).

The first step in my view is to find out the path your IP packets are taking. A delay can be caused if your connection is going through satellite and not a land line (Earthbound wireless, fibre- underwater or land, etc.).

First I would suggest tracing your packets' route ..... then making an SLA with your service provider and see if they can guarantee the quality parameters you want concerning BW, delay, jitter etc.

I wouldn't jump into buying or installing anything before that!

Keep in mind that all WAN-accelerators solve Latency issues. So choose any Vendor that does WAN-acceleration. But choosing the right one is not that easy. It depends on your WAN-traffic.

If you use applications (like Citrix, SAP) than a traffic priorizing Accelerator (Like Packeteer or Ipanema) will offer you the best results. However, if your traffic is more file oriented (MS-Office) ..... than you will get the best results with the Data reduction Accelerators, like Riverbed, Juniper Citrix and Cisco. In general you'll likely get the best results with Riverbed.

Wan Optimizations appliances have an effect only on TCP flows. If you have latency issues with UDP flows (voip) I don't think you can do anything against that (real time traffic is very sensitive to latency)

About generic TCP flows optimization, you'll find many vendors in the market selling products which fit well according to your needs : Citrix WanScaler, Cisco WAAS, Juniper, Riverbed, Expand and probably a lot of other vendors...

Here is the trick they all use to hide the effects of latency (they don't hide latency, because it already exists, they hide the effects), Wan optimization solutions act like a transparent TCP proxy, spoofing server's IP address to the client, and spoofing client's IP address to the server, and they send the TCP Ack messages locally. So you don't have to wait for the round trip time to get the ACK message. It helps to "fill-the-pipe" quickly. This is the great solution to avoid latency effects, as TCP throughput is highly sensitive to latency, due to the Ack return messages, also congestion control has an horrible effect when the TCP connections start.

Also they implement selective Acks and large initial flow control windows to use the total bandwidth of the WAN link. Add to this some compression mechanisms to artificially increase the bandwidth available and some layer 7 optimizations (mainly CIFS for file sharing, but also HTTP-based compression), embedded QoS stuff, and you have an overview of what we call "Wan optimization".

Whatever the vendor you choose, they all implement what I described above.



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What's in a title you might ask. What's so special about it? Nothing as far as I know till a few days back. A sequence of events shuddered me. Those events involved a title which I have got the legal rights to use. Before proceeding further, I would like my overseas friends to know the way titles are used by some Indians.

Quite a number of the thousands of Indian titles are based on the city where the title holder resides. So if that person was from Mumbai, he might as well use the title Mumbaikar (of Mumbai). It might get too confusing if I went in depth into this stuff, so let me quickly jot down another example which has relevance to the horrendous sequence of events. Some people use the name of their religion as the title too. Even though I use the title Sett, I am a Jain by religion. Hence it is perfectly legal if I call myself as Sanjay Jain. My cousin, Ms. Reshma Kothari can also call herself Reshma Jain. Quite a few people of the Jain community use the title of the same name. Herein lies the root of the story.

A few days back one of my friends had been refused a broadband connection by the knowledgeable staff of BSNL, the leading ISP of India (the other important ones being Tata Indicom, Reliance and Airtel along with some minor players like Satyam). She had applied for a internet broadband connection along with the security deposit nearly 2 months ago. About 2 weeks ago the enlightened officers of BSNL refused her a connection.

My friend lives in a huge complex where there are many more people who follow the religion of Jainism. According to the officers of BSNL, 2 of my friend's relatives had not paid their dues, hence she was not entitled to the broadband connection. A quick survey revealed that these two people in question were also Jains but not even remotely related to my friend. In fact the complex has more than 80 Jain families and the total number of members is more than 500. Following the principles of BSNL, none of them can avail of an internet connection, just because 2 Jains had defaulted in their payment.

In the meantime my friend has opted for an Airtel connection and has got the same. Their officers are not so knowledgeable. What amazes me is the lack of knowledge of BSNL's officers. Just another opinion... outside the state of West Bengal, all her residents who can speak fluently in the native language are known as Bengalis. I shudder to think what would happen if 2 Bengalis did not pay the bills of BSNL. Would the enlightened staff of BSNL cut off the entire state of West Bengal from accessing the internet via their service?

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Almost every home now has internet access in one form or another, be it dial-up connection or broadband. If you have a family, your children may find the internet useful for keeping up with friends or doing their homework; but what else is happening behind the screens?

The vast number of blogs, social networking sites and free website space has led to an increase in a deplorable practice amongst children and teenagers; Cyberbullying. Taking the notion of schoolyard bullying one step further, Cyberbullying is causing distress and, in some cases, suicidal actions among adolescents today.

Cyberbullying takes many forms, all of which are designed to humiliate, upset and otherwise distress a bully's target. Perhaps the most well-known one is the malicious email or text message, the modern-day equivalent of the 'poison-pen' letter; the difference being an email or SMS can usually be traced much easier than a letter sent through the post.

Taking it a little further, ganging up on an individual in a chatroom or instant messenger conversation is a method often used by cyberbullies. Inviting several people into an IM chat to encourage, contribute or even just laugh at the bully 'having a go' at their target can be just as upsetting to the victim as the actual attack itself.

Going further than this, bullies may set up profile pages on network sites like MySpace and Facebook dedicated to slamming or humiliating their victim. These profiles are sometimes written as if from the victim's point of view, revealing embarrassing and often untrue facts about the person. Others may contain embarrassing videos or pictures of the victim, usually edited in a photo editing program.

Some bullies will take their hate campaigns to the lengths of actually setting up an entire website about their victim; the advent of free website and blog services has exacerbated this. The victim often has no idea about the existence of such a website, and is left to wonder why people are laughing behind her/his back or making cryptic comments.

With broadband becoming cheaper, more families are getting internet and leaving their children open to cyberbullies. Some broadband deals may offer monitoring software to allow you to see what your child gets up to online. Compare broadband packages with your child's safety in mind and stop the cyberbullies.

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There are many things which can affect the speed of your broadband service; the type of wires your signal comes through, the distance you live from the exchange, the speed of the package you initially signed up for. But there's one factor which isn't widely known but can adversely affect your speed a great deal; bandwidth hogs.

Each broadband service has a contention rate. This is normally either 20:1 or 50:1 and indicates the amount of people you share your service with. For example, a contention rate of 50:1 means that you and 49 other people are sharing the same bandwidth, resulting in a slower download speed than someone with a contention rate of 20:1. This isn't a problem if everyone goes on at different times and isn't greedy, but bandwidth hogs tend to leave their broadband connected constantly, downloading big files such as music, films or even watching TV over the net. The result? The hogs get more than their fair share of the bandwidth and everyone else has to suffer with abnormally low speeds.

Fortunately, providers recognize that this is a major problem and are setting usage caps to combat it. Usage caps aren't a new idea; most broadband providers will offer cheaper deals with a 2GB, 20GB or 40GB download limit per month, with suspension of service once this limit has been reached. Some providers will allow you to carry on surfing but will charge you for each GB over the limit you go.

When choosing a broadband deal, it's worth remembering that the download limit doesn't just refer to actual downloads of files such as movies and music from the internet. Anything you do which means receiving data from a web page - from looking at text to saving pictures - also constitutes a download. While these are relatively low on the amount of bandwidth they use, regular or constant surfing along with obtaining large files can soon eat into your download limit. This could result in your service being throttled.

You may think that buying a package with an unlimited download amount will solve this problem; it won't. While your transfer threshold may be higher than 40GB, you may still be subject to a 'fair use' policy. This means that if your provider tracks how much bandwidth you use and considers it excessive, you may still have your service suspended.



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