Is there a fibre-to-the-home or fibre-to-the-business project in Trinidad and To
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Is there a fibre-to-the-home or fibre-to-the-business project in Trinidad and Tobago? What are the benefits if you have one, or the drawbacks if you don’t have this option available to you? Are there other Caribbean or Latin American countries with fibre projects? What kind of internet coverage do you have in Trinidad and Tobago?
How does the Internet and Internet technology work, and how do they support communication and e-business?
Define the Internet, describe how it works, and explain how it provides business value.
Explain how the Domain Name System (DNS) and IP addressing system work.
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Yes, there is a fibre-to-home/business project in Trinidad & Tobago. There was the Mahogany Fibre-to-the-community project which was launched sometime in 2014, where nearly $16 million dollars was spent in bringing the fibre to the homes of many in Trinidad & Tobago. The benefits of having such a technology is that you can consume lots of content at high speeds. For example, you can consume content on the internet, watch digital content on your televisions, stay connected through all your devices at all times, and essentially plan for a smart home.
The drawbacks, if you don't have one, is that you might have to rely on mobile based internet connectivity which can tend to be unreliable/patchy, depending on the network infrastructure in the country. This is also not viable for a family setup where the overall consumption of data can be large. Fibre projects do run across most of the Caribbean & Latin American countries today - these were mostly started in late 2014/early 2015, but today, most of them have fibre technology live and running.
In Trinidad & Tobago, you mostly have fibre technology for homes & mobile based internet for smartphones (this has become ubiquitous today). Most of the population is connected to the internet.
Internet & Internet Technology was initially developed by DARPA (U.S.), which provided the basis for what we use as the internet today. The internet is basically a mode of connecting various systems through a "super network" of sorts. For example, the YouTube videos you play are essentially videos shot/made by someone else which is stored on someone else's PC (Servers). All we need to do is to "connect" to the relevant servers to fetch whatever data we need to see. Of course, the actual operations is way more complicated, but in a nutshell this is how it works. The Internet supports communication and e-business in a strong way - communication today happens over various modes, such as WhatsApp, VOIP, video conferencing, etc. which might have never happened onver conventional methods. It has also strongly helped e-commerce mushroom as we see the Amazons and Walmarts of today harnessing the power of the internet.
DNS: Domain Name System basically is a method for mapping a name to an IP address. This does it behind the scenes. To explain it, for example, if you type "www.google.com" in your browser, the DNS at the backend will convert it to the right IP address, which might be 202.92.165.1, and then fetches you the relevant website. Note that everything on the internet has an "address", which we call the IP address. DNS helps us get to that address.
IP addressing system works by assigning a set of numbers separated by dots to uniquely identify a particular location on the internet. Every computer on the internet has a unique IP address, which can be both static and dynamic. It is similar to how every house in this world has a unique address/pin code to help identify it, right? The IP addressing system does the exact same thing by following a universal protocol that any system that is connected to the internet can "understand" and decipher.
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