Columbus’ Cache Machine: Supporting the Caribbean Internet economy
WILLEMSTAD, Curaçao – Failing to convert brilliant business ideas to real returns is costing online entrepreneurs big time. That’s why in the Caribbean, stakeholders are starting to pay closer attention to external factors impacting their bottom line. One such factor is the underdevelopment of critical Internet infrastructure in the region. Across the Caribbean, local Internet service providers […]
Networking the Internet community
Growth of the Caribbean Network Operators Group From the days when the Internet was still a university project until now, many of the technologies that we take for granted were developed and streamlined in environments where technical specialists and user communities came together to share knowledge and experiences. As the Internet matured it became critically […]
Grenada Hosts Successful CaribNOG Meeting
Grenada played host to the latest gathering of Caribbean techies and computer network engineers this past week, staging the fourth regional gathering of the Caribbean Network Operators Group. The week-long event drew over 100 participants from across the region and around the world to the tiny Eastern Caribbean island nation for a series of presentations […]
Grenada IXP delivers improved service
Grenada Internet Service Providers are touting the benefits the Grenadian Internet Exchange Point is delivering to their networks and their customers. A release from the Caribbean Network Operators Group (CaribNOG), issued during their regional meeting in Grenada, quotedsenior representatives from LIME and Columbus Communications describing the improvements in local Internet traffic routing and local content […]
Grenada on drive to increase local Internet content
The Eastern Caribbean island of Grenada is embarking on a drive to increase the amount of local content available to Grenadian Internet users. Speaking at the launch of the relocated Grenada Internet exchange point, Hon. Nazim Burke, Minister of Finance and Energy stated that the Government of Grenada is in full support of initiatives to […]
Spreading the Internet’s Root: Bringing DNS Root Name Servers to the Caribbean
Protection of the Internet’s critical infrastructure is a top priority for the international bodies responsible for managing the Internet. However, important components of key Internet infrastructure are not evenly distributed throughout the world. Emerging markets in particular are at a disadvantage as critical Internet infrastructure is largely clustered in developed markets. As the Internet continues […]
BVI Moves to Strengthen the Local Internet
ROADTOWN, BVI – Internet users in the British Virgin Islands will soon benefit from a faster, more resilient service when the territory gets its own Internet DNS server. The Domain Name System, or DNS, is the phonebook of the Internet. The BVI will be the first British Overseas Territory and one of only a handful […]
Collaborating for the greater good
You wouldn’t send a package from your office in Port-of-Spain, destined for a client in San Fernando, through Miami, United States, would you? That would be foolish, unnecessarily expensive and inefficient.Yet, this inefficient routing is what is being done every day with Internet traffic between local Internet Service Providers (ISPs), destined for local customers.This scenario […]
Caribbean Needs New Model of Leadership to Seize Technology Opportunities
Advances in Internet and mobile technology are providing the tools and conditions for unleashing a new era of Caribbean innovation and a real opportunity to break the cycle of dependence on external entities for regional challenges. However, a new model of Caribbean leadership has to emerge if the region is to seize the moment. This […]