The World Atlas of the Internet

1/ Detailed monographs of 35 countries

� History and development prospects: key facts and events.

� Regulation: ISP and backbone providers' status, content control

� Organisation of the Internet market:

� Players

� Domain name management, the role of official institutions, NIC, ISP associations

� Infrastructures:

� National and international backbone architectures, national network capacity and technologies (DWDM, ATM, IP, MPLS)

� International IP links: capacity, players, destinations� and principal interconnection hubs (IX, NAP)

� Market data:

� Historical data and forecasts up to 2005

� Number of users, ISPs and servers, rate of deployment in homes

� Internet tariffs: cost of access in PSTN, ISDN and permanent access modes (LL, cable, satellite, xDSL)

� Level of use of Web applications: e-mail, e-commerce, VPN, online administration, editorial and telephony services on the net�

2/ Access providers' strategy

� For each country analysed:

� The major final access and national backbone providers

� Key figures (TO, number of subscribers, number of PoPs), market share, organisation, strategy, service offerings and tariffs for all leading players

� 12 international players on the business market:

� History and organisation (shareholders, presence�)

� Development strategy (regional, international, partnerships)

� Key figures (turnover, subscriber base�)

� Services marketed: types of access, transit, Intranet/Extranet, VPN services, hosting

� Infrastructure: number of points of access, technologies, transmission band

3/ Cross-section analyses

� Synthesis:

� Internet's development 1999- 2005: classification by geographical zone and by country, number of users, rate of deployment on the residential market

� Internet rates in PSTN, ISDN, xDSL, cable and leased line (LL) mode, distinction between ISP rates and operator subscriptions, a comparison of the 35 countries studied

� International network capacity: a comparison by geographical zone and country studied, transatlantic IP capacity

� The access market's industrial structure: mergers & acquisitions, partnerships�

� Thematic analyses:

� Telephony over IP: technologies, market, operator strategies�

� Hosting: players, strategic positioning, markets

� Managing the Internet: Interconnection and peering, ICANN, domain name management�

� Video over IP: streaming, TV over IP, rich media

� ASPs: breakdown of the offer and opportunities for telecoms operators

� High-speed access: xDSL, LMDS (WLL), cable, fibre optic, satellite

� IP Backbone: architecture of the Internet backbone (DWDM, ATM, MPLS, IPv4, IPv6�)

� Mobile Internet: prospects and technologies (WAP, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS�)