Internet Service Provider An Internet service provider (ISP) is a business or organization that offers users access to the Internet and related services. Most telecommunications operators are ISPs. They provide services such as Internet transit, domain name registration and hosting, dial-up access, leased line access and colocation.
ISP connection options:
Application Service Provider An application service provider (ASP) is a business that provides computer-based services to customers over a network. The most limited sense of this business is that of providing access to a particular application program (such as medical billing) using a standard protocol such as HTTP.
The following are Tier 1 ISPs (in alphabetical order):
Online Service Provider An online service provider, in modern usage refers to an entity which provides a service online. It can include internet service providers and web sites, such as the Wikipedia or message board operators. In it's original more limited definition it referred only to a commercial computer communication service in which paid members could dial via a computer modem the service's private computer network and access various services and information resources such a bulletin boards, downloadable files and programs, news articles, chat rooms, and electronic mail services. The term "online service" was also used in references to these dial-up services. The traditional dial-up online service differed from the from the modern Internet service provider in that they provided a large degree of content that was only accessible by those who subscribed to the online service, while ISP mostly serves to provide access the the internet and generally provides little if any exclusive content of it's own. In the U.S., the Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act (OCILLA) portion of the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act has expanded the legal definition of online service in two different ways for different portions of the law. It states: *(A) As used in subsection (a), the term service provider means an entity offering the transmission, routing, or providing of connections for digital online communications, between or among points specified by a user, of material of the user's choosing, without modification to the content of the material as sent or received. *(B) As used in this section, other than subsection (a), the term service provider means a provider of online services or network access, or the operator of facilities therefor, and includes an entity described in subparagraph (A). These broad definitions make it possible for a large number of web businesses to benefit from the OCILLA.
* Accenture * A.T. Kearney * Bain & Company * BearingPoint (formerly KPMG Consulting) * Boston Consulting Group * Booz Allen Hamilton * Cap Gemini Ernst & Young * Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu * IBM Business Consulting Services * McKinsey & Company * Mercer Management Consulting * PA Consulting Group
Former providers include:
Online Service Provider Law Online service provider law is a summary and case law tracking page for laws, legal decisions and issues relating to online service providers, like the Wikipedia and internet service providers, from the viewpoint of an OSP considering its liability and customer service issues. See Cyber law for broader coverage of the law of cyberspace.
This company was established in 2000 as an IAP/NSP. But the real business started only in December 2002 under leadership of the new Managing Director Mr B. K. Dangol.
Network Service Provider A network service provider (NSP) is a business or organization that sells bandwidth or network access by providing direct backbone access to the Internet and usually access to its network access points (NAPs). For such a reason, network service providers are sometimes referred to as backbone providers or internet providers.
Business Service Provider Business service providers (BSPs) are companies that offer state-of-the-art business applications over the Web. These applications are built and delivered as Web services - designed with modern security, management, and identity standards to facilitate the plug-and-play integration of these services with other BSP services or with internal corporate Web services. The integration platform for BSP services within a company is the enterprise service bus.
Service Provider A service provider is an entity that provides services to other entities. Usually this refers to a business that provides subscription or metered service to other businesses or individuals. Examples of these services include Internet access, Mobile phone service, and web application hosting.