In addition to purely technological aspects, this consulting covers related areas such as the legislation regulating e-business in various countries, taxation, security, trade networks, advertising, international marketing, creating demand and consumer awareness, and additional variables. In order to offer services that are not available at IBM itself, or services that are advantageous to other suppliers, NetGeneration co-operates with 280 companies in Europe that provide a large variety of capabilities and services. The technology developed by 1Tier allows using public Internet resources for the transmission of high-quality voice, video, and data. Existing Internet routing algorithms have limited capabilities, inefficiently utilise resources and deliver poor service levels to users. Today's Internet is characterised as an unmanaged arbitrary collection of autonomous networks, with varying performance levels.
Bottlenecks emerge where traffic is congested, while elsewhere, network resources are underutilised.