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AT&T announced on June 29, 2007, however, that it was acquiring Dobson Communications. It was then reported on October 2, 2007, that AT&T would purchase Interwise [clarification needed] for $121 million, which it completed on November 2, 2007. Interwise was a leading global provider of voice, Web and video conferencing services to businesses.
In 2010, AT&T announced the migration of all former Worldnet-based accounts to AT&T Dial, AT&T High Speed Internet, AT&T Pre-Paid Internet or a standalone portal or e-mail service. [citation needed] Between April 5 and April 15, 2010, all WorldNet accounts that had not been migrated were suspended. AT&T Dial services were terminated in November ...
The history of the Internet has its origin in the efforts of scientists and engineers to build and interconnect computer networks.The Internet Protocol Suite, the set of rules used to communicate between networks and devices on the Internet, arose from research and development in the United States and involved international collaboration, particularly with researchers in the United Kingdom and ...
Prodigy Communications, L.P. Prodigy Communications Corporation was an online service from 1984 to 2001 that offered its subscribers access to a broad range of networked services. It was one of the major internet service providers of the 1990s. The company claimed it was the first consumer online service, citing its graphical user interface and ...
Internet Protocol television ( IPTV) is the delivery of television content over Internet Protocol (IP) networks. This is in contrast to delivery through traditional terrestrial, satellite, and cable transmission formats. Unlike downloaded media, IPTV offers the ability to stream the source media continuously and hence can begin playing the ...
Digital subscriber line ( DSL; originally digital subscriber loop) is a family of technologies that are used to transmit digital data over telephone lines. [1] In telecommunications marketing, the term DSL is widely understood to mean asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL), the most commonly installed DSL technology, for Internet access .
In computer networking, Point-to-Point Protocol ( PPP) is a data link layer (layer 2) communication protocol between two routers directly without any host or any other networking in between. It can provide loop detection, authentication, transmission encryption, [1] and data compression . PPP is used over many types of physical networks ...
IDS —Intrusion Detection System. IE —Internet Explorer. IEC —International Electrotechnical Commission. IEEE —Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. IETF —Internet Engineering Task Force. IFL —Integrated Facility for Linux. IGMP —Internet Group Management Protocol. IGRP —Interior Gateway Routing Protocol.