In the past decade, Venezuela has faced a profound crisis that has impacted all corners of its society, from health and energy to the economy. Its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita has contracted 77%, and inflation has soared to 32,000%! A new study by computer science researchers at Northwestern University examines, for the first time, […]
Most geographically diverse analysis of LEO satellite latency of 2,400 users across 27 countries shows on-ground infrastructure critical for achieving low latency benefits.
The recently released incident report of the 2022 Rogers outage provides plenty of lessons on how to mitigate future outages.
According to a new report, Iran’s restrictive Internet policies and regulatory framework, coupled with international sanctions imposed on Iranian web services, negatively affect Internet quality, cost, and reliability, compromising Iran’s digital economy.
Accessing Internet content stored on servers located in your country is faster, cheaper, and more reliable than fetching content from another country. Enabling infrastructure such as Internet Exchange Points (IXPs), data centers, and content caches facilitates this. However, this infrastructure is only widely available in some countries. The Internet Society has been helping to establish […]
New feature shows what percentage of each country’s most popular Internet websites is stored on servers in the country or abroad.
Research into different greenhouse gas emission scenarios has started to explore how future climate change may affect subsea cables and their shore-based landing stations.
Study shows how authoritarian governments exert considerable control over infrastructure at home and abroad through governmentally-owned ISPs.