ITM 102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Internet Service Provider, Application Service Provider, Online Service Provider

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Information Technology Management
• Course: ITM 102
• Professor: Ozgur Turetken

Document Summary

Internet service provider (isp) a company that provides individuals and other companies access to the internet along with additional related services, such as web site building. Many but not all isps are telephone companies. Isps provide services such as internet transit, domain name registration and hosting, dial-up or dsl access, leased line access, and collocation. Isps mostly provide access to the internet and charge a monthly access fee to the consumer: online service provider (osp) offers an extensive array of unique services such as its own version of a web browser. Software offered using an asp model is also sometimes called on-demand software. 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 need for asps has evolved from the increasing costs of specialized software that have far exceeded the price range of small to medium sized businesses.