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Let me define first the following ,Internet,technology,innovation and infrastructure this can help us to have an idea what we are going to suggest and recommend to the said problem which is on how to improve the Internet connectivity.

Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standardized Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) to serve billions of users worldwide. It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private and public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope that are linked by copper wires, fiber-optic cables, wireless connections, and other technologies. The Internet carries a vast array of information resources and services, most notably the inter-linked hypertext documents of the World Wide Web (WWW) and the infrastructure to support electronic mail. In addition it supports popular services such as online chat, file transfer and file sharing, gaming, commerce, social networking, publishing, video on demand, and teleconferencing and telecommunications.

Technology is a broad concept that deals with human as well as other animal species' usage and knowledge of tools and crafts, and how it affects a species' ability to control and adapt to its environment. Technology is a term with origins in the Greek technología (τεχνολογία) — téchnē (τέχνη), 'craft' and -logía (-λογία), the study of something, or the branch of knowledge of a discipline.[1] However, a strict definition is elusive; "technology" can refer to material objects of use to humanity, such as machines, hardware or utensils, but can also encompass broader themes, including systems, methods of organization, and techniques. The term can either be applied generally or to specific areas: examples include "construction technology", "medical technology", or "state-of-the-art technology".

Technology has affected society and its surroundings in a number of ways. In many societies, technology has helped develop more advanced economies (including today's global economy) and has allowed the rise of a leisure class. Many technological processes produce unwanted by-products, known as pollution, and deplete natural resources, to the detriment of the Earth and its environment. Various implementations of technology influence the values of a society and new technology often raises new ethical questions. Examples include the rise of the notion of efficiency in terms of human productivity, a term originally applied only to machines, and the challenge of traditional norms.

Infrastructure can be defined as the basic physical and organizational structures needed for the operation of a society or enterprise, [1] or the services and facilities necessary for an economy to function. [2] The term typically refers to the technical structures that support a society, such as roads, water supply, sewers, power grids, telecommunications, and so forth. Viewed functionally, infrastructure facilitates the production of goods and services; for example, roads enable the transport of raw materials to a factory, and also for the distribution of finished products to markets. In some contexts, the term may also include basic social services such as schools and hospitals.

Innovation refers to a new way of doing something. It may refer to incremental and emergent or radical and revolutionary changes in thinking, products, processes, or organizations. Following Schumpeter (1934), contributors to the scholarly literature on innovation typically distinguish between invention, an idea made manifest, and innovation, ideas applied successfully in practice. In many fields, something new must be substantially different to be innovative, not an insignificant change, e.g., in the arts, economics, business and government policy. In economics the change must increase value, customer value, or producer value. The goal of innovation is positive change, to make someone or something better. Innovation leading to increased productivity is the fundamental source of increasing wealth in an economy.

Innovation is an important topic in the study of economics, business, design, technology, sociology, and engineering. Colloquially, the word "innovation" is often synonymous with the output of the process.


If I were hired by the university president as an IT consultant,I would suggest infrastructure in order to improve Internet connectivity..

With the increase in the ease of computer technology, Internet service providers have also upgraded their systems. Traditionally, users connected via dial-up to the Internet, but with high-speed Internet connectivity available to many areas, cable, wireless, DSL and satellite have replaced the old phone-line connection. With these new, faster connections, Internet technology can keep up with computer technology, allowing large files to be moved through the Web at speeds up to 6 megabytes per second.

ISP

An Internet service provider (ISP, also called Internet access provider, or IAP) is a company that offers its customers access to the Internet. The ISP connects to its customers using a data transmission technology appropriate for delivering Internet Protocol datagrams, such as dial-up, DSL, cable modem, wireless or dedicated high-speed interconnects.ISPs may provide Internet e-mail accounts to users which allow them to communicate with one another by sending and receiving electronic messages through their ISP's servers. (As part of their e-mail service, ISPs usually offer the user an e-mail client software package, developed either internally or through an outside contract arrangement.) ISPs may provide other services such as remotely storing data files on behalf of their customers, as well as other services unique to each particular ISP.

End-User-to-ISP Connection

ISPs employ a range of technologies to enable consumers to connect to their network.
For users and small businesses, the most popular options include dial-up, DSL (typically Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line, ADSL), broadband wireless, cable modem, fiber to the premises (FTTH), and Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) (typically basic rate interface).
For customers with more demanding requirements, such as medium-to-large businesses, or other ISPs, DSL (often SHDSL or ADSL), Ethernet, Metro Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, Frame Relay, ISDN (BRI or PRI), ATM, satellite Internet access and synchronous optical networking (SONET) are more likely to be used.

Typical home user connection:

* Dial-up
* DSL
* Broadband wireless access
* Cable Internet
* FTTH
* ISDN
* Wi-Fi

Typical business type connection

* DSL
* SHDSL

Ethernet technologies
Locality
When using a dial-up or ISDN connection method, the ISP cannot determine the caller's physical location to more detail than using the number transmitted using an appropriate form of Caller ID; it is entirely possible to e.g. connect to an ISP located in Mexico from the USA. Other means of connection such as cable or DSL require a fixed registered connection node, usually associated at the ISP with a physical address.
ISP Interconnection
Just as their customers pay them for Internet access, ISPs themselves pay upstream ISPs for Internet access. An upstream ISP usually has a larger network than the contracting ISP and/or is able to provide the contracting ISP with access to parts of the Internet the contracting ISP by itself has no access to.
In the simplest case, a single connection is established to an upstream ISP and is used to transmit data to or from areas of the Internet beyond the home network; this mode of interconnection is often cascaded multiple times until reaching a Tier 1 carrier. In reality, the situation is often more complex. ISPs with more than one point of presence (PoP) may have separate connections to an upstream ISP at multiple PoPs, or they may be customers of multiple upstream ISPs and may have connections to each one of them at one or more point of presence.
An ISP makes it possible for clients to access the Internet. School, universities and institutions are some examples, although most ISPs are commercially owned. Comcast, Netscape, EarthLink, NetZero, Verizon and Qwest are examples of ISPs. These companies can provide dial-up, cable modem, DSL, wireless or satellite Internet connectivity.

Cable

A cable is two or more wires or ropes running side by side and bonded, twisted or braided together to form a single assembly. In mechanics, cables are used for lifting and hauling; in electricity they are used to carry electrical currents. An optical cable contains one or more optical fibers in a protective jacket that supports the fibers. Mechanical cable is more specifically called wire rope.

Electrical cables

Electrical cables may be made more flexible by stranding the wires. In this process, smaller individual wires are twisted or braided together to produce larger wires that are more flexible than solid wires of similar size. Bunching small wires before concentric stranding adds the most flexibility. Copper wires in a cable may be bare, or they may be coated with a thin layer of another material: most often tin but sometimes gold, silver or some other material. Tin, gold, and silver are much less prone to oxidisation than copper, which may lengthen wire life, and makes soldering easier. Tight lays during stranding makes the cable extensible (CBA - as in telephone handset cords).
Cables can be securely fastened and organized, such as by using cable trees with the aid of cable ties or cable lacing. Continuous-flex or flexible cables used in moving applications within cable carriers can be secured using strain relief devices or cable ties. Copper corrodes easily and so should be layered with Lacquer.
At high frequencies, current tends to run along the surface of the conductor and avoid the core. This is known as the skin effect. It may change the relative desirability of solid versus stranded wires.

Cables and electromagnetic fields

Any current-carrying conductor, including a cable, radiates an electromagnetic field. Likewise, any conductor or cable will pick up energy from any existing electromagnetic field around it. These effects are often undesirable, in the first case amounting to unwanted transmission of energy which may adversely affect nearby equipment or other parts of the same piece of equipment; and in the second case, unwanted pickup of noise which may mask the desired signal being carried by the cable, or, if the cable is carrying power-supply or control voltages, pollute them to such an extent as to cause equipment malfunction.

The first solution to these problems is to keep cable lengths short, since pick up and transmission are essentially proportional to the length of the cable. The second solution is to route cables away from trouble. Beyond this, there are particular cable designs that minimise electromagnetic pickup and transmission. Three of the principal design techniques are shielding, coaxial geometry, and twisted-pair geometry.

Shielding makes use of the electrical principle of the Faraday cage. The cable is encased for its entire length in foil or wire mesh. All wires running inside this shielding layer will be to a large extent decoupled from external electric fields, particularly if the shield is connected to a point of constant voltage, such as ground. Simple shielding of this type is not greatly effective against low-frequency magnetic fields, however – such as magnetic "hum" from a nearby power transformer.

Coaxial design helps to further reduce low-frequency magnetic transmission and pickup. In this design the foil or mesh shield is perfectly tubular – ie., with a circular cross section – and the inner conductor (there can only be one) is situated exactly at its centre. This causes the voltages induced by a magnetic field between the shield and the core conductor to consist of two nearly equal magnitudes which cancel each other.
The twisted pair is a simple expedient where two wires of a cable, rather than running parallel to each other, are twisted around each other, forming a pair of intertwined helices. This can be achieved by putting one end of the pair in a hand drill and turning while maintaining moderate tension on the line. Field cancellation between successive twists of the pair considerably reduces electromagnetic pickup and transmission.
Power-supply cables feeding sensitive electronic devices are sometimes fitted with a series-wired inductor called a choke which blocks high frequencies that may have been picked up by the cable, preventing them from passing into the device.

Electrical cable types
Basic cable types are as follows:

* Coaxial cable
* Multicore cable (consist of more than one wire and is covered by cable jacket)
* Ribbon cable
* Shielded cable
* Single cable (from time to time this name is used for wire)
* Twisted pair
* Twisting cable

Cable has some of the highest Internet speeds available for homeowners, with speeds between 4 and 6 Mbps. Comcast and Time Warner can also provide higher speeds, up to 16 Mbps, but are only available in certain areas and cost more. Comcast's PowerBoost technology, featuring fiber optic upgrades, has enhanced some area's speeds up to 20 Mbps. Digital cable TV providers usually bundle their digital TV cable services with digital cable Internet services.

DSL

DSL (digital subscriber line) is a family of technologies that provide digital data transmission over the wires of a local telephone network.
Verizon and AT&T provide DSL Internet, which is usually available from the phone company providing your house with phone services. DSL Internet connectivity is not as fast as cable but has lower prices and can still be a reliable alternative when cable is not available. Both Verizon and AT&T offer different packages with different speeds as well as useful extras such as personal homepages, email and web space.

Wireless

Wi-Fi (pronounced /ˈwaɪfaɪ/) is a trademark of the Wi-Fi Alliance for certified products based on the IEEE 802.11 standards. This certification warrants interoperability between different wireless devices.
In some countries (and in this article) the term Wi-Fi[1][2] is often used by the public as a synonym for IEEE 802.11-wireless LAN (WLAN).

Not every IEEE 802.11 compliant device is certified by the Wi-Fi Alliance, which may be because of certification costs that must be paid for each certified device type. The lack of the Wi-Fi logo does not imply that a device is incompatible to certified Wi-Fi-devices.Wi-Fi is used by most personal computer operating systems, many video game consoles, laptops, smartphones, printers, and other peripherals.

The Wi-Fi Alliance promotes standards in order to improve the interoperability of wireless local area network products based on the IEEE 802.11 standards. It is a consortium of separate and independent companies, and agrees on a set of common interoperable products based on the family of IEEE 802.11 standards.[9] The Wi-Fi Alliance certifies products with a set of defined test procedures. The manufacturers with membership of Wi-Fi Alliance and whose products pass these tests can mark their products and packaging with the Wi-Fi logo.

A Wi-Fi enabled device such as a PC, video game console, mobile phone, MP3 player or PDA can connect to the Internet when within range of a wireless network connected to the Internet. The coverage of one or more interconnected access points — called a hotspot — can comprise an area as small as a single room with wireless-opaque walls or as large as many square miles covered by overlapping access points. Wi-Fi technology has served to set up mesh networks, for example, in London.[17] Both architectures can operate in community networks.

High-speed wireless connectivity is a more recent technology that allows laptops, cell phones and mobile devices the same speeds as desktop computers plugged into a cable or DSL line. WiMax, a wireless broadband service provider, claims that it can increase connection speed to laptops, phones and home use up to 7 Mbps, better than some cable and DSL connections. Hotspots that feature wireless ISPs such as airports, Internet cafes and public areas continue to increase in number.

Satellite

a satellite is an object which has been placed into orbit by human endeavor. Such objects are sometimes called artificial satellites to distinguish them from natural satellites such as the Moon.

The first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, was launched by the Soviet Union in 1957. By 2009 thousands of satellites had been launched into orbit around the Earth. These originate from more than 50 countries and have used the satellite launching capabilities of ten nations. A few hundred satellites are currently operational, whereas thousands of unused satellites and satellite fragments orbit the Earth as space debris. A few space probes have been placed into orbit around other bodies and become artificial satellites to the Moon, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.

Satellites are used for a large number of purposes. Common types include military (spy) and civilian Earth observation satellites, communication satellites, navigation satellites, weather satellites, and research satellites. Space stations and human spacecraft in orbit are also satellites. Satellite orbits vary greatly, depending on the purpose of the satellite, and are classified in a number of ways. Well-known (overlapping) classes include low Earth orbit, polar orbit, and geostationary orbit.

Satellites are usually semi-independent computer controlled systems. Satellite subsystems attend many tasks, such as power generation, thermal control, telemetry, attitude control and orbit control.

Types of satellites

* Anti-Satellite weapons/"Killer Satellites" are satellites that are armed, designed to take out enemy warheads, satellites, other space assets. They may have particle weapons, energy weapons, kinetic weapons, nuclear and/or conventional missiles and/or a combination of these weapons.

* Astronomical satellites are satellites used for observation of distant planets, galaxies, and other outer space objects.

* Biosatellites are satellites designed to carry living organisms, generally for scientific experimentation.

* Communications satellites are satellites stationed in space for the purpose of telecommunications. Modern
communications satellites typically use geosynchronous orbits, Molniya orbits or Low Earth orbits.


* Miniaturized satellites are satellites of unusually low weights and small sizes.[12] New classifications are used to categorize these satellites: minisatellite (500–100 kg), microsatellite (below 100 kg), nanosatellite (below 10 kg).

*Navigational satellites are satellites which use radio time signals transmitted to enable mobile receivers on the ground to determine their exact location. The relatively clear line of sight between the satellites and receivers on the ground, combined with ever-improving electronics, allows satellite navigation systems to measure location to accuracies on the order of a few meters in real time.

* Reconnaissance satellites are Earth observation satellite or communications satellite deployed for military or intelligence applications.Very little is known about the full power of these satellites, as governments who operate them usually keep information pertaining to their reconnaissance satellites classified.

* Earth observation satellites are satellites intended for non-military uses such as environmental monitoring, meteorology, map making etc. (See especially Earth Observing System.)


* Space stations are man-made structures that are designed for human beings to live on in outer space. A space station is distinguished from other manned spacecraft by its lack of major propulsion or landing facilities — instead, other vehicles are used as transport to and from the station. Space stations are designed for medium-term living in orbit, for periods of weeks, months, or even years.

* Tether satellites are satellites which are connected to another satellite by a thin cable called a tether.
Weather satellites are primarily used to monitor Earth's weather and climate.[13]

* Satellite ISPs, useful for those who require high-speed Internet but are operating out of range of DSL and cable ISPs, can provide speeds up to 5 Mbps. Cable and DSL will usually be faster, more reliable and cheaper than satellite connections. Satellite should be a last option if no other Internet is available.


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Increase Wireless Signal Strength

Wireless connectivity has become critical to business and personal applications dependent on the internet. In order to facilitate instant access and improve network performance, it is essential to increase the signal strength...

Wireless internet access has facilitated quick and easy access to a global audience for business or personal pursuit. The speed with which you connect via the range and signal strength available largely determines the success of your online venture. Within the otherwise anonymous web world, it is essential to tap the potential of various components involved in the connectivity.

The strength of the wireless signal is very essential to capitalize on, through this medium of communication. Increased signal strength assures greater and timely communication between end points. The connectivity could be vital to business or a personal pursuit. The scope to lose out on important information is limited and critical to any related endeavor. A weak signal is indicated via:

* Slow connectivity that is not in sync with the actual design-performance.
* Regular loss of connectivity that hampers important work.

There are ways and means of increasing wireless signal strength, to extend the wireless range and improve dedicated network performance. There are a number of steps that can be implemented as part of home or office improvement, to improve overall performance of the connectivity adopted. It is important to identify the core components of the gadgetry and adopt the remedial measures and correct the signal strength in time. A little research on this arena goes a long way. The commonly adopted remedies include:

Identification and Access the Central Access Point:

You should identify a central location for the wireless router. The common observation is that the router fitted against any external surface will transmit weak signals. Preferably choose a big flat office or home space for the router set up, in order to ensure equal distribution of signal radiation over the desired area.

Select Router Placement:

Always look for an alternative to the floor, metal objects and file cabinets. These constructions interfere with the wireless signal strength.

Antenna Check:

Most antennas are omni-directional and hence most of the time, due to internal and external obstructions, they result in wasted signals. There are restrictions on the power output also. You can consider an investment in a hi-gain antenna. The hi-gain wireless signals are accessed and transmitted from a single direction and you get to choose the direction with optimum value.

Adapter Check:

The wireless network signals are ideally routed to and from the computer. However, in the absence of a good adapter, the router will be able to transmit strong signals to reach the computer, but the machine may not be able to re-transmit signals of equal strength. You could opt out of a card-based adapter and invest in a USB network adapter. The latter uses an antenna that is external. The increased range makes a huge difference to the signal strength and computer networking.

Consideration of a Repeater:

A repeater extends the network range, without a wire mess. The optimal placement is between the access point and the computing machine. The presence of a repeater instantly upgrades wireless signal strength.

Selection of a Clearer Channel:

Typically, the wireless router transmits signals on several different channels of varying clarity. You should consider changing the router channel and configuration for an improved signal strength.

Upgrade Firmware/Adapter Driver:

Router improvements come with every upgrade. Likewise, the network adapters are also updated to communicate with the adapter or driver more effectively. You should keep yourself well informed about such updates and use them for improved performance.


Consider an Extender:

Consider the use of a powerline extender instead of the ethernet cable. Once it is plugged into the router and the power socket, it provides instant access to increased signal strength.




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http://www.ehow.com/about_5132980_high-speed-internet-connectivity.html?ref=fuel&utm_source=yahoo&utm_medium=ssp&utm_campaign=yssp_art
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_service_provider