This Post is about a way to decentralized the internet access by creating a secure global extranet,
and a Company, BandZ
A few concepts.
Is the global system of interconnected computer networks that use the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link devices worldwide. It is a network of networks that consists of private, public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope, linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless, and optical networking technologies. The Internet carries a vast range of information resources and services, such as the inter-linked hypertext documents and applications of the World Wide Web (WWW), electronic mail, telephony, and file sharing.
To that all these computers can be connected and work properly, the computers have to communicate through the same language, this "language" is called communication protocol, TCP / IP (Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol). Any system connected directly to the network has a domain name and an IP, the latter is a numeric address.
People can navigate and interact without any limitations in the internet. Anyone can place on the Internet, information without prior censorship, this allows freely express opinions and freely decide what use we give the Internet, of course with the respective responsibilities that this entails.
Today, the Internet serves as one of the main means of communication. It allows to transmit data, such as photos, videos, texts, among other resources, even at a huge distance.
We use Internet mainly for banking procedures, online purchases, information search, social networks, forums and other sites of interest.
Intranet is a private network accessible only to an organization's staff. Often, a wide range of information and services are available on an organization's internal intranet that are unavailable to the public, unlike the Internet. A company-wide intranet can constitute an important focal point of internal communication and collaboration, and provide a single starting point to access internal and external resources. In its simplest form, an intranet is established with the technologies for local area networks (LANs) and wide area networks (WANs).
Currently, companies are looking for tools and methods to align internal communication, reduce costs and centralize information and files. The intranet is one of those tools, which works in a restricted way to a specific audience, such as a company, for example. In this way, employees can access it with their specific username and password.
Companies use the Intranet to communicate with their employees. Even in many large organizations, the Intranet is used as the primary way for employees to obtain and share documents, communicate their ideas and collaborate with their co-workers.
Due to the large amount of data generated by a company, modern data entry and query methods are needed.
The intranet is, then, a closed and internal network, and still allows the use of more communication protocols, in addition to HTTP. Access to the intranet is normally done on a local server and a local network, which we call LAN, which means the local access network, installed in the company itself.
This internal network connects users, allowing information exchange, file and document management, centralizing communication between users. With this tool, it is possible to interconnect companies and departments quickly, safely and efficiently.
Extranet is a controlled private network that allows access to partners, vendors and suppliers or an authorized set of customers – normally to a subset of the information accessible from an organization's intranet. An extranet provides access to needed services for authorized parties, without granting access to an organization's entire network. An extranet is a private network organization.
The extranet is a portal that is publicly available on the Internet but required authentication to access to the information and services available on the intranet of the organization.
An Extranet allows in a secure way to communicate the internal data of the Organization with the outside (internet).
In fact, in everywhere you can see someone with your smartphone, playing, buying or looking for some type of information.
However, despite the importance of the internet today, there are still problems to solve.
The first concerns about the accessibility of the internet. A person can have a large bandwidth and quality of service at home or their work, but when go abroad, is another reality, the person depend on public Wi-Fi to stay connected or may decide pay high roaming costs. Is frustrating having to wait until returning to the hotel to have internet connection.
The second concerns about access restrictions, it is mostly for people outside the United States and the European Union. Although they have and want to pay to see a movie or a sport game, they can not, this is frustrating and from my point of view unnecessary. Some people decide to pay an expensive VPN to bypass this restriction.
The third concerns about the security of our information on the Internet, Today we are still very exposed to theft of information, including identity theft.
People of the third world have additional problems.
We are in 2018, but the people of the third world have additional problems. We have Internet connections with little bandwidth, added to very high costs and poor quality of service, in my country is common to lose access to the Internet even for more than a day.
Why is this situation occurring?
Mainly because of the limited range of scope to provide internet by ISPs. In most third world countries, the infrastructure necessary to provide internet is insufficient, but because the ISPs respond to centralized entities, these taking advantage of the law of supply and demand, arbitrarily dictate the rates of services of internet, this in case you stay within signal range, otherwise you will be prey of high wireless internet plans.
If you choose to connect to the internet through your Smartphone, apart from very high rates cost and roaming, ISPs only supplies limited data plans (usually under 5GB), which is a complete suffering, even if you are willing to pay the fees.
As an alternative to solve the problems mentioned above, BandZ emerges like a solid proposal to create a decentralized way through the blockchain technology of providing internet services around the globe, a safe and private global extranet.
BandZ is a global extranet project. The aim is to make enterprise-grade software products accessible and cheap to novice users in a decentralized and secure fashion. These products include: VPNs, mesh networking, remote proxies, bandwidth sharing/exchange, and more.
Bandz is a business focused on decentralizing the internet, with a global p2p extranet project. The main premise of BandZ is that its project be affordable and accessible to every internet user, with no exceptions, making a network neutrality, that means the network traffic will not have any kind of hierarchy or preference and there will be no additional charges or commissions.
In the same way all the users will have the same benefits (VPN, secured communications and mesh networks), there will be no restrictions by geographic region (censorship-resistant) or additional costs from larger distances in low infrastructure areas.
Bandz platform will provide security and privacy through as a global extranet.
In Bandz premise of being affordable and accessible to every internet user, BandZ allows inexperienced users in intranet and entranet to access easily and at low cost to enterprise-grade internet services. As well, these costs can be canceled via the exchange of bandwidth as payment, (BandZ token).
BandZ and the Internet Service Providers (ISPs).
The BandZ software will enable ISPs to interact with other ISPs and create partnerships so that users can use their devices internationally while still being tied to their providers. This will enable users to enjoy a more robust, comfortable, and global experience.
BandZ and the Blockchain.
Blockchain software is being built to provide the services that will be available to BandZ users on its extranet (VPN, rotating proxy, secured communications, mesh networks, and more).
Adopting blockchain technology to develop the monetization of BandZ will enable the network to incentivize rapid user adoption. Additionally, blockchain architecture will improve transparency, security and allow BandZ to make internet access cheaper and geographically agnostic for the end user.
The Blockchain make possible the BandZ tokens (BandZ network economy). They will be used to purchase and sell bandwidth, VPN and other services on the network.
BandZ and The P2P File Transfer Systems.
BandZ and Virtual Private Networks (VPNs).
All of the individual peers will be their own intranets and provide each other with enterprise grade VPN security and robust internet connectivity.
BandZ and the Mesh Networks.
Bandz aims to create nodes that connect directly, dynamically and non-hierarchically in a cooperation scheme. each node participates in the relay of information.
Bandz has the vision to establish its software (via the tokenized incentives of the blockchain architecture.) To the vendors of mesh network devices to get to common standards and guarantee the interoperability between devices from different vendors.
BandZ and the Bandwidth Marketplace.
BandZ (BNZ) tokens are at the heart of the BandZ network economy. They will be used to purchase and sell bandwidth, VPN and other services on the network!
BandZ and the Security.
Accessibility of the internet. A person can have a large bandwidth and quality of service at home or their work, but when go abroad, is another reality, the person depend on public Wi-Fi to stay connected or may decide pay high roaming costs. Is frustrating having to wait until returning to the hotel to have internet connection.
However, if he is a BandZ user, he can use his BandZ tokens or paid to get bandwidth, VPN or other BandZ services. This guarantees to stay connected during all his trip and a considerable reduction of costs by eliminating roaming fee or having to buy a sim card in the destination country.
Case 2: Bandwidth Provider.
A person who lives in a tourist area with little access to the internet can earn BandZ Tokens selling their bandwidth, VPN and other BandZ services on the network to tourists. Even its could pay the internet contract and generate additional profits
BandZ (BNZ) tokens are at the heart of the BandZ network economy. They will be used to purchase and sell bandwidth, VPN and other services on the network!
The private token sale is starting on June 22nd.
BandZ is a real alternative to solve the problems that still persist on the internet.
Establishing a decentralized extranet will be a great step forward in the way we navigate on the network.
There are 3 aspects that I find very interesting, perhaps because I live in an underdeveloped country.
First, the Mesh Networks. In my case I write this article using my Smartphone as a router because I live in an area in which ISPs do not have fiber optic infrastructure, ISPs neither have antennas, so I am limited to using my phone's data plans, about 3GB per month, Projects like this are great help to me.
The second aspect aspect involves the purchase and sale of bandwidth. In my case it would be a great help to be able to buy BandZ Token and pay for additional bandwidth.
Finally, the VPN within the BandZ platform, beyond of the security of my data, much content on the internet is restricted for my region, and this can be very helpful.
For more technical information you can check the BandZ documentation.
More information.
BandZ Team
Road to a descentralizaded internet.... make enterprise-grade software products accessible and cheap to novice users in a decentralized and secure fashion.
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