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Alcatel-Lucent's new 7950 XRS core router can stream 2.5 million HD videos every second.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- In a world where we're constantly connected and video sucks up an ever-growing chunk of precious bandwidth, Internet service providers are getting desperate for ways to crank up their speed.

Networking challenger Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) is about to give them what they want.

The company announced Tuesday that it has developed the "7950 XRS," a core Internet router that is capable of speeds up to five times faster than those of its nearest competitor. Just one 7950 XRS router can deliver 16 terabits of data per second. That's about 2.5 million HD video streams every tick of the second hand.

It's roughly five times faster than the CRS-3, networking giant Cisco's latest and greatest core router, which debuted in 2010.

Core routers sit at the epicenter of the Internet, serving as the traffic cops at the biggest intersections on the busiest data highways. They direct huge amounts of traffic, connecting visitors' requests to sites like Google (GOOG, Fortune 500), Netflix (NFLX) or CNNMoney and sending data back to the right place in return.

It's a crucial part of the Internet backbone, but it's a market in which Alcatel-Lucent hasn't participated until now. Cisco (CSCO, Fortune 500) and Juniper (JNPR) are by far the two largest players in core routing. Few have challenged them since the dawn of the Internet.

"Alcatel-Lucent faces a big challenge," said Michael Howard, principal analyst and co-founder at Infonetics Research. "It is hard for service providers to change or add new products and new vendors in any critical area, and core routing is a critical area."

But if history is any guide, Alcatel-Lucent has a shot at making a serious dent in Cisco's market share. In 2003, the company began challenging Cisco and Juniper in "edge routing," which take individuals' requests and sends them to core routers. Think of edge routers as the on-ramps to the information superhighway.

Starting from a customer base of zero, Alcatel-Lucent now controls 24% of the market, surpassing Juniper as the No. 2 vendor in edge-routing last year and bringing in $2 billion in revenue.

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By John D. Sutter, CNN

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(CNN) -- This might be the start of a new chapter in the browser wars.

Over the weekend, Google Chrome routed more Internet traffic than Microsoft's Internet Explorer, which long has held its spot as the most-used Web browser in the world, according to data from StatCounter, an Internet monitor.

Don't rush to over-interpret this bit of news, though.

Other Internet trackers still show Internet Explorer -- which comes pre-installed on many Windows computers and has long been a default -- in the lead.

And some groups have criticized StatCounter's data collection methods, saying the group does not account for the different ways countries collect Internet traffic data.

Still, the numbers are a sign of the times.

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LAS VEGAS, NV--(Marketwire -05/22/12)- Atlantis Internet Group Corp. (ATIG.PK), announced today the continued expansion of its Tribal Gaming Network (TGN), a private gaming network that links Indian Casinos nationwide, with the signing of two additional Tribes illustrating its diversity by assisting large and small Native American Indian Tribes in the gaming industry. The latest two Tribes to join the network are the White Earth Nation, the largest Tribe located in Minnesota and Big Lagoon Rancheria from Northern California. White Earth has agreed to launch ATIG's Play-For-Fun games at their Shooting Star Casino and on several additional gaming facilities located on their reservation.

These latest agreements are an excellent example of how ATIG's Tribal Gaming Network has something to offer Tribes of all sizes. Big Lagoon Rancheria, a Federally Recognized Tribe that recently won a compact dispute with the State of California, is launching new gaming operations in Northern California. As plans are now in the works to develop a casino resort on their reservation, Big Lagoon called on the technological expertise of ATIG.

The Tribal Gaming Network will allow Big Lagoon to tap into nationwide jackpots made possible by linking with other Tribal casinos and share in the same mega jackpots offered by many larger casinos. This should effectively allow Big Lagoon to bridge the gap between nearby casinos, and effectively compete using the latest state-of-the-art server based technology. "We are proud to add White Earth and Big Lagoon to our Tribal Gaming Network. Our continued growth comes as Tribes nationwide realize the advantage of being first to capture the online gaming market in the U.S., which creates new gaming revenues and exciting online entertainment," said Donald L. Bailey, President/CEO of ATIG.

ATIG has brought together some of the world's most prominent gaming vendors to offer Class III, Class II and online games on its Patent Pending Proprietary Private Gaming Network to link together Indian Casinos nationwide. This first of its kind multi-vendor and multi-game platform offers products from major gaming vendors on one machine including Table Games, Slots, Simulated Horse Racing, Nationwide Poker, Simulated Sportsbook, Live Online Dealer Games, and features only the second Powerball-like Lotto product. "It's the next generation of server-based technology; in short, it's a casino within a casino," stated Bailey.

ATIG is officially launching The Tribal Gaming Network http://www.tribal-gaming-network.com with its Play-For-Fun site this month with the Coushatta Casino from Louisiana. Visit the Coushatta Casino or the Atlantis Internet Group websites for official launch date: http://www.coushattacasinoresort.com/gaming/ and http://www.atlantisinternetgroup.com

About Atlantis Internet Group Corporation (ATIG). http://www.atlantisinternetgroup.com Atlantis Internet Group Corp. is a public Nevada Gaming corporation specializing in the development of casino games, casino management software, slot machine software, gaming networks and land-based casino development. For more information: http://www.atlantisinternetgroup.com or http://www.tribal-gaming-network.com

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By Georgina Prodhan

LONDON (Reuters) - A project to allow companies to set up a website with almost any address has relaunched after a software glitch exposed sensitive details of applications last month, forcing it to shut down.

In the most ambitious expansion of the Internet so far, the body that oversees domain names has now given organisations until May 30 to apply for their own Web address endings - for example .london, .eco or .canon - provided they have a legitimate claim to the domain name and can pay a hefty fee.

The new suffixes should allow companies or communities more control over their online presence and send visitors more directly to part of their sites.

But the process was dogged by controversy even before the embarrassing software bug: many brand owners have felt forced to take part in the expensive project or risk rivals bagging domains that could be mistaken for their own.

It has also raised questions of corporate governance at Icann, the non-profit body that manages the Internet's naming system, since some current and former directors of the body stand to make money out of the explosion of new names.

Chief Executive Rod Beckstrom said Icann now hoped to be ready to publish details of who had applied for what before the U.S. organisation's next major meeting in Prague, which will be his last before he hands over to a new CEO.

"I think the team has done a very professional job of dealing with the situation," he told Reuters by telephone. "Now we're able to move on to the next phase."

The new generic top-level domains will expand the variety of possible Web addresses beyond those currently available, which end in a limited number of suffixes such as .com, .org or .edu. The stated goal is to encourage innovation on the Internet.

Many desirable Web addresses, for example toys.com or sex.com, were sold long ago - sometimes to parties who acquired them for their real-estate value but put no content on the sites - and now sell at auction for millions of dollars.

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Googles Matt Cutts has put out a new Webmaster Help video discussing something thats probably on a lot of webmasters minds these days: what if you linked to a good piece of content, but at some point, that content turned spammy, and your site is still linking to it?

In light of all the link warnings Google has been sending out, and the Penguin update, a lot of webmasters are freaking out about their link profiles, and want to eliminate any questionable links that might be sending Google signals that could lead to lower rankings.

A user submitted the following question to Cutts:

Site A links to Site B because Site B has content that would be useful to Site As end users, and Google indexes the appropriate page. After the page is indexed, Site Bs content changes and becomes spammy. Does Site A incur a penalty in this case?

OK, so lets make it concrete, says Cutts. Suppose I link to a great site. I love it, and so I link to it. I think its good for my users. Google finds that page. Everybodys happy. Users are happy. Life is good. Except now, that site that I linked to went away. It didnt pay its domain registration or whatever, and now becomes maybe an expired domain porn site, and its doing some really nasty stuff. Am I going to be penalized for that? In general, no.

Its not the sort of thing where just having a few stale links that happen to link to spam are going to get you into problems, he continues. But if a vast majority of your site just happens to link to a whole bunch of really spammy porn or off-topic stuff, then that can start to affect your sites reputation. We look at the overall nature of the web, and certain amount of links are always going stale, going 404, pointing to information that can change or that can become spammy.

And so its not the case that just because you have one link that happens to go to bad content because the content has changed since you made that link, that youre going to run into an issue, he concludes. At the same time, we are able to suss out in a lot of ways when people are trying to link to abusive or manipulative or deceptive or malicious sites. So in the general case, I wouldnt worry about it at all. If you are trying to hide a whole bunch of spammy links, then that might be the sort of thing that you need to worry about, but just a particular site that happened to go bad, and you dont know about every single site, and you dont re-check every single link on your site, thats not the sort of thing that I would worry about.

Of course, a lot more people are worried about negative SEO practices, and inbound links, rather than the sites theyre linking to themselves.

More Penguin coverage here.

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Matt Cutts Shares Something You Should Know About Old Links