Resumen
The article focuses on the issue of international structure of the Internet, which was very U.S. centric, which has been facing a sever competition from its European and Asian counterpart. The European parts of the Internet have become much more interconnected, with high-capacity bandwidth linking most of the area. The need for connectivity between large, multinational corporations has motivated many communications carriers to aggressively acquire local Internet Service Providers and deploy sizable trans-European networks. Asia is also not far behind as it begun to see the first stage of interconnectivity to form a intra-Asian "mesh." In Asia, there is an active group of smaller firms using the Internet intensively to rapidly build up their businesses. Before 1998, especially during the early development of international links between the U.S. and other national Internet connections, the ties went from the U.S. to Sweden, to France, to Great Britain, or to Japan, but almost never involved a regional level of connectivity. The new meshed networks in Europe and Asia are ending the U.S.-centric nature of the international Internet.