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Critical Internet Infrastructure – Expanding the Internet . Welcome Distinguished Visitors to USTTI Brian Cute Vice President, Government Relations VeriSign, Inc. May 2006. Overview of VeriSign: Corporate data and history. Founded in 1995 Headquarters in Mountain View, California
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Critical Internet Infrastructure – Expanding the Internet Welcome Distinguished Visitors to USTTI Brian Cute Vice President, Government Relations VeriSign, Inc. May 2006
Overview of VeriSign: Corporate data and history • Founded in 1995 • Headquarters in Mountain View, California • 4000-plus global employees: U.S.; Geneva; Berlin; Tokyo; Cape Town, Sao Paolo • Reported revenue FY 2005~:$1.66 b. • 18 data centers worldwide, sales offices in 30 countries
Overview of VeriSign: Our businesses • Unifying vision: Intelligent infrastructure to enable secure ubiquitous communications, content and commerce • 3 major lines of business: • Security: -the “original VeriSign” (“VSS”) • Digital certificates/PKI • Web security and authentication • Managed network security services • Communications infrastructure (“VCS”) • Telephony signaling and switching (SS7) • Wireless roaming mediation and billing • Mobile ring tone downloads and other wireless content (Jamba) • Intelligent secure, massively scalable data bases (“VIS”) • Key Internet infrastructure A- and J- root servers • .Com and .Net Top Level domain registries • Operation of TLD Registries for .EDU, .TV, .CC ;Service provider for .bz, .name • Supply chain: RFID: EPC
Connectivity for all Intelligent Networkand Database Services Mobile Carriers iDEN Enterprise CDMA TDMA GSM Wireline Carriers PSTN InteroperabilitySecurityApplicationsDirectory VoIP Carrier Network Cable Carriers IPVoIP PSTN Internet IP Content Provider IM Network MSN IP YAHOO ICQ
13 13 8 .biz .com, .net 2 5 5 12 3 .info usc.edu .uk whitehouse.gov microsoft.com Layers of Internet DNS Servers Internet Root servers “.” VeriSign manages the root zone and operates the a.root and j.root. Top Level gTLD and ccTLD servers “.gov” VeriSign operates a globally distributed constellation of gTLD servers for .com & .net, . DNS servers in the lower layers are owned and operated by ISPs, businesses, government and educational institutions. Second Level DNS servers “xxx.xxx”
A Global Infrastructure Explosion Right Before Our Eyes Sources 2005: Internet World Stats, Computer Industry Almanac, UVA, MRG, SIMS, eMarketer and VeriSign. *Projections for 2007. **Daily average.
Expanding the Critical Infrastructure • Anycast technology – overcomes limitation of 13 root servers • Regional Resolution Servers • Benefits: - faster resolution times - localization of traffic - security/visibility of attacks - insulate local user community from exterior attacks - regional leadership in Internet expansion
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