Week 6

Question 1

The goal of Ekos Research

Answer 1

Understanding which telecoms services are necessary for Canadians to participate in digital economy and what role the CRTC should play in this.

Question 2

Boomerang Routing

Answer 2

Internet traffic beginning and ending in the same country transits another.

Question 3

How is the NSA able to see content according to Clement and Obar?

Answer 3

Spliced fibre optic cable connects networks with other major internet companies, makes copies, copies go to top secret room, copies are the reassembled.

Question 4

How is NSA surveillance especially a problem for Canadians?

Answer 4

Foreigners rights to data privacy are flexible in the U.S..

Data goes beyond border, no warrant is necessary, therefore no legal basis for Canadians to challenge surveillance.

Question 5

Clement and Obar argue that Canadian internet is heavily and unnecessarily reliant on foreign infrastructure. For Canadians this results in

Answer 5

higher service prices and slower network speed.

Question 6

5 eyes

Answer 6

Canada
U.S.
Australia
New Zealand
Unite Kingdom

Global group that harvests data online and shares it.

Question 7

How are rural residents of Canada most likely to get internet service?

Answer 7

Through telephone line (copper), satellite, or fixed wireless.

Question 8

___ _____ will always find a route.

Answer 8

Data packets will always find a route.

Question 9

What does a peering agreement look like for Netflix?

Answer 9

When I’m watching Haunting of Hill house on my XBox I’m not streaming everything from California even though Netflix is based in California.

Netflix takes up rack space at a local internet exchange point in Calgary, we can picture this just like retail rack space.

Data has a physical route that it takes and latency still occurs.

Question 10

Internet

Answer 10

A network of networks that share each other.

Question 11

What is the significance of the following statement: “the internet is decentralized”

Answer 11

The internet has no single point of failure, data packets will always find a route.

Question 12

YYCIX

Answer 12

Calgary’s Internet Exchange Point! :)

Not for profit

Volunteer run

Question 13

What is one problem with data staying local within a country?

Answer 13

A question then arises of what one does if they do not trust their government. If data remains local it can be easier for a government to control it and this can be problematic for news dissemination and for democracy.

Question 14

What does it mean for Canadians if Canada has more IXPs?

Answer 14

Canadians are protected by Canadian privacy laws

Improves performance of internet

Reduced transit costs