Retail Internet Sites Industry

If the topic is construed to be a consideration of retail sites on the Internet, then the opposite is true. Instead of a slender industry analysis, this analysis would reach many hundreds of thousands of pages. For the purpose of this analysis, "Retail Internet Sites" will be considered as a web location that has been registered with InterNIC, and that is in the process of going into business -- or is already in business -- on the World Wide Web.

This paper shall not cover the several hundred thousand companies around the world that specialize in helping companies improve their web presence, primarily because of the fact that those companies are basically uncoordinated by Federal regulations. What this paper will focus on is one particular group of businesses within the Internet that can be considered to form an "industry segment," the Internet Service Provider, or ISP.

An ISP is a company that is in the business of renting cyberspace to web domains that wish to pe

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e backbone. Second is the bargaining power between the end user and the ISP. The bargaining chip in both of these relationships is "bandwidth," a simple concept to explain, and a difficult one to comprehend. "Bandwidth" refers to the capacity of a telecommunications medium to convey data. Bandwidth is a function of three elements: Capacity (the wires, cables, and fiber-optic lines that carry data between computers; Speed (the effectiveness of routers and switches that direct data); and, Response (the power of the computers and Web servers that store and dish up the information people want to see (Rheingold, 1994, 103). Much of this telephone infrastructure was designed to juggle voice calls averaging a few minutes in duration. Online customers, however, often stay on for hours. That can tie up the connections in a local switching center. Internet service providers--companies that offer dial-up Internet access in exchange for a monthly fee--likewise get overwhelmed if too many users try to log on at once (Rickard, 1998, Online). On the first level, that between ISP and backbone, the ISP has the power to negotiate for price. For example, if one backbone is offering 50 megaherz of bandwidth at a charge of 50 cents a mi
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