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What is ISP?

ISP stands for "Internet Service Provider". It is an organisation that provides services for participating, accessing, or using in the Internet. Such that the Internet service providers are organised in different forms. The forms are community owned forms, private owned forms, commercial forms, or non-profitable forms. ISP's can be used to provide Internet Services that may be include Colocation, Internet access, Web hosting, Internet transit, Usenet service, and Domain name registration. An ISP is actually act as access point or the gateway to the user, which provides access to everything available on the Internet to the user.

History of ISP

In 1980's Online Service Provider were establish as CompuServe and America On-Line (AOL) and process set in place towards public. Began to offer limited capabilities to access the Internet, such as E-mail interchanging. But full access to the Internet was not readily available to the general public.

The first Internet Service Providers was introduced in 1989 and established in Australia, therefore the companies offers a direct access to the Internet, was readily available to the general public for a monthly fee. They are generally a dial-up connections which offered by a companies, they provide the Internet connections to their customer by using a public telephone network.

Already a cable television company and the telephone carriers are had a wired connections which provide a high speed Internet connections than dial-up to the customer by using broadband technology such as digital subscriber line (DSL) and cable modems.

Classifications of ISP

  • Access Providers – Provide Internet Access
  • Mailbox Providers – Provides Hosting Electronic Mail Domain Services
  • Hosting ISP's – Provides Email, Web Hosting or Online Storage Services
  • Transit ISP's - Just as their customers pay them for Internet access, ISP's themselves pay upstream ISP's for Internet access
  • Virtual ISP's (VISP) – It is an operation that purchases services from another ISP
  • Free ISP's – It is Internet service providers that provide service free of charge
  • Wireless ISP's – It is an Internet service provider with a network based on wireless networking.

Also learn about LAN (Local Area Network)

 

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