The aim of this Masters Thesis is to propose to SYSteam Nät AB, a local Internet Service Provider (ISP) in Uppsala, Sweden, how to implement IP telephony in their existing ITinfrastructure as a service to their customers. Thus the perspective of the thesis will be that of a local Internet Service Provider. Three general areas are covered in the thesis: Market and Business Model, Technology, and Economics. Important issues for SYSteam Nät AB as an established local broadband Internet Service Provider are to both retain present customers and to attract new customers. Some believe that offering value added services such as IP telephony could do this. Implementation of IP telephony can be done in different ways to fulfil SYSteam Nät’s requirements. The analysis leads to a proposal of how SYSteam Nät could implement IP telephony. This involves many multi-faceted business, technical, and financial issues; each aspect is examined in this thesis. / Avsikten med detta examensarbete är att komma med ett förslag till SYSteam Nät AB, en lokal Internetleverantör i Uppsala, om hur de, som en service till sina kunder, kan implementera IP telefoni i sin existerande IT-infrastruktur. Detta betyder att jag behandlar frågeställningen med en Internetleverantörs perspektiv.Tre huvudområden behandlas i examensarbetet: Marknad och Affärsmodell, Teknik och Ekonomi. Som en etablerad lokal leverantör av Internet via bredband är det viktigt för SYSteam Nät AB att både behålla nuvarande kunder och att attrahera nya kunder. En del tror att man skulle kunna åstadkomma detta genom att erbjuda värdehöjande tjänster som IP telefoni. Implementering av IP telefoni, som svarar mot SYSteam Näts krav, kan utföras på olika sätt. Analysen, som leder till ett förslag hur SYSteam Nät skulle kunna implementera IP telefoni, involverar många mångfasetterade frågeställningar av affärs-, teknisk- och ekonomisk natur. Var och en av dessa aspekter behandlas i rapporten.

Black liquor, a byproduct from pulp production, is burned in a recovery boiler to generate electricity and recover inorganic materials. Black-liquor-droplet combustion is fundamental to understanding and potentially improving recovery boiler performance. This investigation reports comprehensive experimental data collected for a suite of five liquors. All the data were collected with newly-designed laboratory equipment, several aspects of which are unique. Single droplets were suspended on a thermocouple and heated in a furnace. Simultaneous diameter (size and shape), internal and surface temperatures, surface emissivity, and mass were measured under various furnace temperatures and gas compositions. The images recorded by the cameras show the droplet swelling characteristics during combustion. Droplets swell more in inert environments and with low heating-rates than in oxidizing environments and with high heating-rates. Softwood liquors show greater swelling than softwood/hardwood mixed liquors. The internal temperature measured by the thermocouple is lower than the surface temperature measured with the optical pyrometer. This temperature gradient between the droplet interior and surface can be larger than 300 K. Molecular-beam mass spectrometry data were used to determine droplet mass loss and off-gas composition. These mass-loss data differ by about 10% from the balance mass data. These data provide a self-consistent and reasonably comprehensive description of black-liquor-droplet reactivity. A one-dimensional transient droplet model predicts droplet temperatures and mass loss comparable to the data. The combustion of volatiles, droplet swelling, and enthalpy of devolatilization were proved to be significant. Intermediate-sized particle (ISP) formation was investigated with a suspended-droplet experimental technique. The images indicate that a small amount of particles are ejected during drying. Insignificant ISP formation during devolatilization occurs. Char burning and smelt oxidation produce the largest amount of ISP. Quantitative analyses indicate that both droplet solids-content and liquor type impact ISP formation. Longer burning times produce more ISP, with total ISP formation being 0.2-2% of dry solids. Sampled ISPs show consistent trends in surface structure and particle sizes under a scanning-electron-microscope, independent of the experimental conditions.

The objective of this master‘s thesis is to develop an ISP application for service monitoring and management. A fully functioning monitoring software has been developed that allows the administrator to check round-trip time and packet loss in the entire network. Another function of the application is obtaining information from network devices by the SNMP protocol (e.g. packet and byte count etc.). The software uses this information to create graphs per hour, day, week or year. All graphs and statistics are visualised on the administration website. For the purpose of client administration, a client database has been developed. This part of the application enables the management of payments, IP addresses, contacts etc. Both parts of the web pages have been developed by using mod_python and AJAX, making the application similar to standard desktop applications. The testing application has been developed by using Python and the entire application has been designed for modules, which can be later used for the development of other functions.

This master’s thesis focuses on description and evaluation of effectiveness of the current information system by means of selected methods and following proposal of changes which should lead in enhancement of the overall ICT condition in the analysed company. This company works in the field of information/telecommunication services.

The objective of this master‘s thesis is to develop an ISP application for service monitoring and management. A fully functioning monitoring software has been developed, which allows the administrator to check the round-trip time and the packet loss in the entire network. Another function of the application is obtaining information from network devices by the SNMP protocol (e.g. packet and byte count etc.). The software uses the information to create hour, day, week or year graphs. All graphs and statistics are visualised at the administration webpages. For the purpose of client administration, a clients database has been developed. This part of the application contains functions of payment administration, IP addresses, contacts etc. Both parts of the web pages have been developed using PHP and AJAX, which makes the application similar to standard desktop applications. The testing application has been developed using Python and the entire application has been designed for modules, which can be later used for the development of other functions.

在科技迅速發展的現代，雲端運算已成為創新應用及產業轉型的重要動力，各國政府無不陸續推動相關資訊政策，雲端產業儼然已成為最重要的資訊產業之一。在雲端應用服務更加多元的未來，侵害著作權的情況可能日益嚴重，面臨的法律議題亦將愈趨複雜，本文擬欲探討者為雲端服務提供者的著作權侵權責任。因雲端服務提供者亦可包含於網路服務提供者的定義之下，在探討相關侵權行為要件或相關案例時，時以網路服務提供者為討論標的。主要就美國過往網路服務提供者著作權侵權案例及近期有關雲端服務之著作權侵權案例進行介紹後，再回歸我國著作權之責任體系、修法及實務案件做討論。

Duplicating a time series study done by Kuhlthau and associates in 1989, this study examines the applicability of the Information Search Process (ISP) Model in the context of a virtual learning environment. This study confirms that students given an information seeking task in a virtual learning environment do exhibit the stages indicated by the ISP Model. The six-phase ISP Model is shown to be valid for describing the different stages of cognitive, affective, and physical tasks individuals progress through when facing a situation where they must search for information to complete an academic task in a virtual learning environment. The findings in this study further indicate there is no relationship between the amount of computer experience subjects possess and demonstrating the patterns of thoughts, feelings, and actions described by the ISP Model. The study demonstrates the ISP Model to be independent of the original physical library environments where the model was developed. An attempt is made to represent the ISP model in a slightly different manner that provides more of the sense of motion and interaction among the components of thoughts, feelings, and action than is currently provided for in the model. The study suggests that the development of non-self-reporting data collection techniques would be useful in complementing and furthering research to enhance and refine the representation of the ISP Model. Additionally, expanding the research to include the examination of group interaction is called for to enhance the ISP Model and develop further applications that could potentially aid educational delivery in all types of learning environments.

Principal acteur de la communication au public en ligne, le fournisseur d'accès à Internet offre une connexion, contrôle les points d'accès, identifie les utilisateurs. Ses responsabilités extra-contractuelles résultent de ses multiples fonctions : prestataire technique, responsable de traitement des données, exécutant d'injonctions judiciaires. Ses responsabilités sont abondantes et parfois surabondantes. Toutefois, malgré un régime de responsabilité qui lui est spécifiquement applicable, la notion de "fournisseur d'accès à Internet" n'est toujours pas juridiquement définie. Cette imprécision de la notion entraîne une profusion de régimes juridiques imposant le statut de fournisseur d'accès à des acteurs dont l'activité principale n'est pas la fourniture d'une connexion à Internet : Universités, entreprises, particuliers. Dès lors, les responsabilités extra-contractuelles pénales, civiles et administratives se multiplient et créent un régime obligationnel instable, obscur, voire abscons. Cet éclatement lexical et juridique est encore aggravé par l'application fonctionnelle à l'activité de fourniture d'accès, du droit des communications électroniques et de la société de l'information. Il est alors nécessaire de proposer une définition formelle du fournisseur d'accès à Internet susceptible d'unifier son régime de responsabilité autour de notions juridiques stabilisées. Cette reconstruction affectera inévitablement la réglementation relative à la communication au public en ligne et à ses acteurs, mais proposera une possible fondation au droit des communications électroniques / Internet Service Providers are major actors of the Information Society. They offer connections, controls access points, and can also identify their users. Their many liabilities result from their multiple functions as technical services provider, data controller or performers of judicial orders. These legal obligations are numerous and sometimes overabundant. In spite of an existing and specific liability status, the very notion of "Internet service provider" still remains legally undefined. This lacuna entails a profusion of legal status imposing an ISP status to players for which the main activity is not to provide an Internet connection : Universities, companies, individuals. From then on, criminal, civil and administrative liabilities multiply and create an instable, obscure and even abstruse status. This lexical and legal scattering is even worsened by the functional application of the electronic communications and Information Society legal framework to access providing activities. It is then necessary to unify the legal regimes associated to those activities according to stabilized legal concepts. This reconstruction will inevitably affect the Information Society legal framework as a whole. Eventually, it will open on a possible ground for the electronic communications legal framework

The aim of this work is to examine the application Topocoding API and Google Maps API. Analyze system requirements to define the coverage of wireless connectivity to allow the ISP so as to allow the ISP to file AP and customers, as well as exploring the possibilities of joining the AP ISP and view coverage maps. Further, this application design, implement and test.

¡iAbstract¡j After the disregulation of the telecommunication in Taiwan, Strategy Alliances become the hit among the companies. And the M&A is a great mass fervor in advanced countries. What we concern are if the alliance performance is the same with what the manger expect and how to measure the value of the enterprise. As we know, Sometimes the financial reports can¡¦t reflect the market value of a company. EVA (Economic Value Added) is a new indicator in financial field. It is aimed at the new hi-tech companies, which have little asset and high R&D abilities. The research is focused on the Excite@Home, the biggest broadband internet service provider (ISP) in the USA. Excite, the sixth internet content provider (ICP) in America, was merged by @Home in 1999. According to the conclusion, the marketing cost affect FGV so much, both of them are direct proportion. It means the marketing makes sense and increases the market value of the business when the merger occurred. But the margin advertising revenue didn¡¦t increase for a long time. Why? Because the integration of the merger didn¡¦t work out very well and people anticipate negatively for the company¡¦s future. Thus it can be seen the value drivers reflect the success or failure of their strategic decision. The result also shows the business model drives FGV. Taking the Excite@Home for example, FGV has huge variation accompany COV just a ripple when the company makes vast investment. In a word, when the strategic planning matches with the market expectation and it implement successfully, the FGV goes up so that the market value of the enterprise increases. On the contrary, either the failure operation or the wrong strategy makes FGV slump, even lower than COV.