Global Other wide area data services are, in many cases, only partially standardized across national boundaries. IP services are interchangeable around the world. Where the global common denominator of data exchange was until recently the fax machine, now full electronic commerce activity is feasible all over the world. IP-based IP networks have proven to be simple, robust, capable of scaling to previously unimagined levels, and able to adapt to requirements it was never designed to handle. The Internet, its large family of standardized protocols, and its machinery for achieving technical consensus will strongly impact future technology and future business practices.
Raw bandwidth is the supreme concern here.
Large, congested public peering facilities have been supplemented in recent years by private peering agreements among ISPs. These products and facilities will rarely be operated by or even visible to enterprise IT managers and thus can't be the central focus of Network Magazine, the bulk of whose readers are network managers and executives. Furthermore, service providers regularly flaunt the high-tech qualities of their networks. It's important to provide some consumer education about these topics as a service to the reader. The access portion of the New Public Network is where value added services are and will be developed.