The combination of interactive services and multimedia yields a wide variety of possible new services, while ATM is viewed as the technology capable of delivering these services to residential users. The provision of Internet access to home users through an ATM access Newark seems an attractive service, due to the wide adoption of the Internet. Considering the DAVIC reference configuration and ...

The increasing demand for a variety of new Internet services with diierent and possibly stringent QoS requirements (i.e. Internet Tele-phony, videoconferencing etc.) requires the design of mechanisms to support QoS guarantees. The current solutions proposed in IETF, RSVP (Resource reSerVation Protocol) and Diierentiated Services, though suitable for many applications, may result ineecient to su...

The financial services industry has used Internet technologies to create many standardised services for consumers. Recent Internet initiatives offer more customised financial products and services. Traditional market players have responded by evolving standard products to become more client specific. These forms of mass customisation of financial services are based on an increasing role and imp...

We propose an architecture which can support video services in networks which have no Quality of Services (QoS) guarantees. We demonstrate that there is a need for such services today and also in the future, when QoS will be built into most networks. We then describe our current Internet-based system, which combines both image processing and networking techniques in order to provide good qualit...

Visions of 21st century information systems show highly specialized digital services and resources, which interact continuously and with a global reach. Especially with the emergence of technologies, such as the semantic web or software agents, intelligent services within these settings can be implemented, automatically communicating and negotiating over the Internet about digital resources wit...

Platform concepts have been around for about a decade now. While their focus was on the manufacturing industry in the beginnings, interest has shifted to services – and Internet-based services in particular. This paper provides an overview of popular product platform concepts, a new view upon services in the light of the Internet, and links platforms to Internet-based services. Two companies wi...

Community networks build and operate local IP-based networks. They originated as communication infrastructures developed by citizens that enabled isolated communities to connect to the Internet, in order to be able to participate in the daily usage of Internet services. Community networks showed that network services can be built and maintained in a collective action. This paper looks into the ...

Open Pluggable Edge Services (OPES) Treatment of IAB Considerations Status of this Memo This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Abstract IETF Internet Architecture Board (IAB) expressed nine architecture-level considerations for the Open Pluggable Edge Services (OPES) framework. This...

We propose a new connection management architecture for clustered Internet services called Active Connection Management (ACM) to improve the availability, quality of service, and manageability of Internet services. ACM extends the API of load-balancing switches to include application-level primitives. These primitives enable Internet services to manage loadbalancing switches dynamically to cont...

Data-intensive distributed file systems are emerging as a key component of large scale Internet services and cloud computing platforms. They are designed from the ground up and are tuned for specific application workloads. Leading examples, such as the Google File System, Hadoop distributed file system (HDFS) and Amazon S3, are defining this new purpose-built paradigm. It is tempting to classif...